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Originally Posted by SeaQueen
Interesting. I tend to prefer an angle that's a little bit offset because I can more easily slip around the escorts. Then drive right at high value units.
In NATO EXWAR, the escorts are picked randomly so it should be different every time. Also, in a later version, I also added airborn helos, because I realized they never had time to get a helo airborn. Sometimes there's VLA and sometimes there's not. It depends on what escorts are drawn. Also, the shotgun ship should always have VLA.
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Originally Posted by Molon Labe
They came pretty much straight on.
I thought this one was a bit harder than the other one. The screen was harder to penetrate, and the skimmers had more firepower to bring to bear. I don't think the other scenario had any ASROC shooters, and there were definitely no airborne helos. Skimmers generally do a poor job of reacting because they race in with their sonars washed out, so helos and ASROC capability can make a big difference.
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My read on it was that the formation was frontloaded and broad enough that going in from the side wouldn't get me a shot. I guess that depends on whether or not the escorts' TACTASS would hear me at 68 cross-layer, which now that I think about it is probably unlikely. So yeah, if I could attack from the side, this would be about as easy as NATO was.