Multi-Station Positions

Icehornet · 04-27-08, 01:49 PM

Hey everyone. Long time lurker.

Myself and my Partner have been playing DW for about a year or so on and off, and a few days ago we started giving multistation games a good go. And what fun its been to!

I just wanted to know, what would be the best way to 'divide' up the stations on the Subs (688I and Seawolf) and FFG between the two of us. We found that OneShot's P-3C "Orion" guide to be very helpfull in this regard.

We have around the same 'skill' as each other in each station. Any help in 'spreading' out the work load (and fun) would be great.

Cheers guys, and have a good one.

goldorak · 04-27-08, 06:38 PM

On the subs I would divide like this: player 1 has the sonar station, player 2 has tma and firing control and the rest of the stations can be divided equally between the two players or player 1 can get the rest of the stations with player 2 getting only firing and tma (manual).

On the frigate I would say you need 3 players, with only 2 players it can get a little rough. In this case you have 3 big jobs : astac and sonobuoy control, sonar suite control, weapons coordinator+weapons station + torpedo control.
The rest being ship control and tma.
Tma is mostly irrelevant on the frigate so it doesn't matter wether it is on autocrew or manual. As for ship control I would give it the the guy that is either controlling the sonar suite or the weapons station. Ew station can be put on autocrew.

Kapitan · 05-21-08, 02:15 AM

In the past ive split the stations up so that one person is dominant captain ie in controll, so he will have ship control weps radar and ESM , the other guy will have sonar and focus on that aspect because thats thee most important thing in the game.

kage · 05-22-08, 03:40 PM

In a busy anti-missile situation, having one player on the radar (weapons coordinator?) put up a target queue trying not to 'duplicate' the contacts, and another at weapons control just shooting at those, means fewer missiles are spent on the same missile. In a situation where you have multiple missiles incoming, spending no more than one sm2 on each (at least until you've cycled them all or a missile has missed) is bad; this pipelining of work will help against that. (If the first does hit, you wasted a missile; worse, that sam could have had a chance against another target.)

Or that's the theory anyway. I haven't gotten much of a chance to try it out in practice.

Been too long since I played it, actually. I think all the Perry bugs got to me.

04-27-08, 01:49 PM	#1
Icehornet Swabbie Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: OZ Posts: 7 Downloads: 26 Uploads: 0	Multi-Station Positions Hey everyone. Long time lurker. Myself and my Partner have been playing DW for about a year or so on and off, and a few days ago we started giving multistation games a good go. And what fun its been to! I just wanted to know, what would be the best way to 'divide' up the stations on the Subs (688I and Seawolf) and FFG between the two of us. We found that OneShot's P-3C "Orion" guide to be very helpfull in this regard. We have around the same 'skill' as each other in each station. Any help in 'spreading' out the work load (and fun) would be great. Cheers guys, and have a good one.

05-21-08, 02:15 AM	#3
Kapitan Sub Test Pilot Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: UK + Canada Posts: 7,130 Downloads: 77 Uploads: 7	In the past ive split the stations up so that one person is dominant captain ie in controll, so he will have ship control weps radar and ESM , the other guy will have sonar and focus on that aspect because thats thee most important thing in the game. __________________ DONT FORGET if you like a post to nominate it by using the blue diamond Find out about Museum Ships here: https://www.museumships.us/ Flickr for all my pictures: https://www.flickr.com/photos/131313936@N03/ Navy general board articles: https://www.navygeneralboard.com/author/aegis/

05-22-08, 03:40 PM	#4
kage Helmsman Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 104 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	In a busy anti-missile situation, having one player on the radar (weapons coordinator?) put up a target queue trying not to 'duplicate' the contacts, and another at weapons control just shooting at those, means fewer missiles are spent on the same missile. In a situation where you have multiple missiles incoming, spending no more than one sm2 on each (at least until you've cycled them all or a missile has missed) is bad; this pipelining of work will help against that. (If the first does hit, you wasted a missile; worse, that sam could have had a chance against another target.) Or that's the theory anyway. I haven't gotten much of a chance to try it out in practice. Been too long since I played it, actually. I think all the Perry bugs got to me. __________________ http://www.xfire.com/clans/dwobjective/ for those who like playing objectives-based missions. (As opposed to deathmatches)

04-27-08, 06:38 PM	#2
goldorak Admiral Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,320 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	On the subs I would divide like this: player 1 has the sonar station, player 2 has tma and firing control and the rest of the stations can be divided equally between the two players or player 1 can get the rest of the stations with player 2 getting only firing and tma (manual). On the frigate I would say you need 3 players, with only 2 players it can get a little rough. In this case you have 3 big jobs : astac and sonobuoy control, sonar suite control, weapons coordinator+weapons station + torpedo control. The rest being ship control and tma. Tma is mostly irrelevant on the frigate so it doesn't matter wether it is on autocrew or manual. As for ship control I would give it the the guy that is either controlling the sonar suite or the weapons station. Ew station can be put on autocrew.