[Kapitan]

Just finnished playing this mission in real time, according to the Mission de brief it took 7 hours 36 minuets and 47 seconds (it felt like a week!).

It was a good mission i enjoyed playing it and will more than likely play it again, the long stroke of bordem paid off after 6 hours when i detected a poss sub on narrowband with my Skat 3 towed array, after doing all the monovers to possitivly classify this submarine it came to the 688i.

I did not enguage immediatly infact i picked this guy up doing only 5 knots bearing 122 from me course 355 range 11 miles.
Now thats well with in my 65cm torpedo's.

So what did i do?

I sat there and waited till he got closer he came within 6 miles of me then i fired and i know i caught him litteraly with his pants down.

I activated the torpedo at 5 miles from me and almost immediatly had lockhow ever he evaded my torpedo and two others, but my fourth one got luck hitting him in the arse and sinking him.

The guy fired back a MK-48-ADCAP so instead of running away from the torpedo i ran towards it at flank speed, and just like hunt for red october it went straight past me going active only two miles behind.

I have to admit i got scared at that point i dropped countermeasures and made hard 90 degree turn i even had to look into my print out for torpedo aquisition ranges and thankfully i was now outside the MK-48-ADCAP's range heading now due north back to TK208.

Once the torpedo stopped pinging i ended the game the TK208 Dmitri Donskoy had been effectivly Escorted.

So how did i do it? what tactics did i use? what speeds ?

If you ever seen clive custler look for ship wrecks you will see he does whats called a box search, ie he splits a certain area up in goes up and down and then across side to side, i used this methord.

When turning i used sprint and drift tactic where i would speed up to 25 knots then set all stop and glide till i got to four knots this was mainly to straighten out the towed array.

When doing "the line" i would only keep to 5 knots and i kept to 55 meters (no layers under ice so no need to go deep).

Anyway as i said after six hours or there abouts i found him, he was outside the SSBN op area south about 45 miles from the boomer approximatly.
I knew his torpedos could not get the boomer so i decided to do what i do best, sit and wait and i didnt wait that long 20 minuets at most and then i fired sinking him.

Short tactic list of tactics used:

Box searching
Sprint and drift
"Stay silent stay shallow"



How can this mission be improved?

The SSBN op area could be extended.
More biologicals.
Shallower waters.
More of a mission objective ie make sure the entire op area is clear of all threats.

More submarines both friendly and un friendly.
Random failures of eqipment could be good as well .

How would i rate this Mission?

Over view:
This mission is perfect for a person like me, i am "off the wall" kind of skipper i dont play by the books or rules i do what i have to do to get the job done regardless wether i go in harms way.
To play this mission you need a lot of patience as it takes hours, it took me almost 8 hours on this mission alone and that was in real time!

Skill:
Well you dont need that much as long as you know the rules of the road you will do fine, if you dont know how to command submarines under ice dont get this mission its not like commanding a submarine in the blue water it is a whole new kettle of fish.

Detail of the mission:
Fairly good could be improved upon with the above mentioned area's but it was a nice relaxing easy mission unlike some where its just sheer mayhem.

Score out of 100:

I have to give this mission 88 out of 100 Certain factors come in that make the mission not that good but it is still an excellent mission i do look forward to playing it again, and maybe even multiplayer!