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Originally Posted by Avatar
While I'm here,
If you go to Youtube.com and type in Dangerous Waters you'll see the DW-trailer. My game doesnt have big pieces of ship blowing off the ship and my FFG crew doesnt call "vampire." I have patch 1.03, but that's it, I dont have LWAMI patch. should I get this patch?
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It should call Vampire. LW's LWAMI is just Doctrine and Database (a bunch of text files really) so it should have nothing to do with it. Make sure you've got radars running and the missiles are in a position where you have even a slight chance of actually detecting them - DW is pretty "generous" in announcing missile and torp launches but at some point even DW won't give you the warning.
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Originally Posted by Avatar
Also, does anyone carry Harpoons on their US subs (in DW)? My only AS missiles are the TASM. I made a littoral water scenario between a 688(I) and a Udaloy DDG, and most of my TASM were soaked up by the DDG's defenses. Would the Harpoon have been a better ASM? I remember the ol' Microprose "Red Storm Rising" manual stating that the Harpoon has a lower alt and "pop-up" terminal executing manuver that makes it harder to shoot down than the TASM. Is this correct for DW?
many thanks, and happy new year folks.
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There's no such thing as an evasive manuever in Dangerous Water missiles. All are straight runners. When I realized this, I changed the range of the SS-N-27's Stage 2 up to 60km - the real procedure does have the Stage 2 rocket come out 20km distance from the target, but it is supposed to zig before hitting. Since it won't zig, I decided to cram all the "zig" distance into straight run distance.
But I digress - anyway, no such thing as missile maneuvers, and evasive maneuvers cause the missile to spend more time in the WEZ - shootdown.
In stock DW, you should just stick to TASMs - they are the same speed and the same radar SL (50 on scale of 0-100). In LWAMI, Harpoon has a bit smaller RCS (40 vs TASM's 45).
Any way you cut it though, missiles are a pretty inefficient form of attack. Your only real chance is if you detect no signals on your ESM (the enemy is not radiating). If the radars are on, even with a SS-N-27 with its radar SL set on 40, expect to require like 6 just to get good hits on a lone Arleigh Burke.
Here's a better idea - just put 12 TASMs in the VLS seeing they won't hold anything else. Fling them at the enemy without any expectations, and plan to have to kill everyone with torpedoes.