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OKO · 10-17-05, 10:50 AM

I understood you were talking about a target ...

anyway why making a solution on neutral (bio/civilian) ? =>
when this neutral could prevent you to hit the right target
in this case you must do a TMA on it to choose the best time to engage the target without risk to hit the neutral.

A good TMA is just the final result of a good tactical analyse.
1) you must track the target and potential nuisance that could prevent you to hit the right target.
2) wait until you've got enought info before going to TMA screen
3) making a TMA on target AND on neutrals near the target (this takes 2 minutes in the game ...)
4) engaging the target when you have the max probabilities to hit the right one, but before you fall in a difficult situation, and just after enter a new solution on TMA (this time it's 15 sec of work here)

4 is the most difficult thing
There is always a right time to engage
too soon => you could hit a wrong target and be detected too early.
too late => you could be detected and engaged before you fired

I see that you, as most people, consider you don't have time to waste on TMA screen
that's right, but for wrong reasons here =>
you think you need to spend lots of time on this station, but you only have to come here when you have something to do !
And you have something to do here ONLY when you have enought info to work. Not before.

Before, you must try to track the target and neutrals near it on BB to get the DEMON info on them.
before, you will spend all your time on sonar, and not on TMA, to see if there is some change in the SNR of a target, to search on NB for new contact ...

If you think you need to spend too much time on the TMA station, that's just because you don't go there at the right time.
A good TMA is just the final result of a good sonar work.
This is the sonar that will tell you if a neutral must be tracked or not to ensure it won't be hit instead of your target, not the TMA.
Of course, you really don't matter about a neutral at 30° from your target bearing, but a neutral at 10°, closing the target's bearing MUST be tracked also, and you must do a TMA on it, as for the target.

A TMA need 2 minutes of work, maximum, if you do it in the right time, this mean when you have enought information to make it.

on your above example, where you dropped the contact sometimes, you will just never have enought informations on the potential nuisance because you didn't wait enought LOBs to work with.
That's why I said, you should never do this, or you won't have a good picture, then you could engage the wrong target.

10-17-05, 10:50 AM	#5
OKO Commander Join Date: Jan 2002 Location: Solar system, mainly on earth Posts: 476 Downloads: 62 Uploads: 0	Re: Reverting TMA solution? I understood you were talking about a target ... anyway why making a solution on neutral (bio/civilian) ? => when this neutral could prevent you to hit the right target in this case you must do a TMA on it to choose the best time to engage the target without risk to hit the neutral. A good TMA is just the final result of a good tactical analyse. 1) you must track the target and potential nuisance that could prevent you to hit the right target. 2) wait until you've got enought info before going to TMA screen 3) making a TMA on target AND on neutrals near the target (this takes 2 minutes in the game ...) 4) engaging the target when you have the max probabilities to hit the right one, but before you fall in a difficult situation, and just after enter a new solution on TMA (this time it's 15 sec of work here) 4 is the most difficult thing There is always a right time to engage too soon => you could hit a wrong target and be detected too early. too late => you could be detected and engaged before you fired I see that you, as most people, consider you don't have time to waste on TMA screen that's right, but for wrong reasons here => you think you need to spend lots of time on this station, but you only have to come here when you have something to do ! And you have something to do here ONLY when you have enought info to work. Not before. Before, you must try to track the target and neutrals near it on BB to get the DEMON info on them. before, you will spend all your time on sonar, and not on TMA, to see if there is some change in the SNR of a target, to search on NB for new contact ... If you think you need to spend too much time on the TMA station, that's just because you don't go there at the right time. A good TMA is just the final result of a good sonar work. This is the sonar that will tell you if a neutral must be tracked or not to ensure it won't be hit instead of your target, not the TMA. Of course, you really don't matter about a neutral at 30° from your target bearing, but a neutral at 10°, closing the target's bearing MUST be tracked also, and you must do a TMA on it, as for the target. A TMA need 2 minutes of work, maximum, if you do it in the right time, this mean when you have enought information to make it. on your above example, where you dropped the contact sometimes, you will just never have enought informations on the potential nuisance because you didn't wait enought LOBs to work with. That's why I said, you should never do this, or you won't have a good picture, then you could engage the wrong target.