LuftWolf and Amizaur's Realism Mod Poll #9: The Mavpoon

LuftWolf · 03-19-06, 08:34 PM

I think we are all familiar with the issues that many of us have with the P-3 loadout options, so I'll cut right to the chase.

We can't have an ASuW capable version of the Harpoon on the P-3 at this time, sorry. The interface is completely wrong for converting the missile to a Harpoon and unless someone finds something that everyone else has missed, it's not ever going to happen.

The Maverick's ability to home and kill stuff underwater is gone, and that's really good. To make it less of a magic weapon (seeing as it's seeker still doesn't require a lock for the missile to home from launch, meaing the missile with 30nm range had Over the Horizon launch capability), and to bring the weapon more inline with it's actual usage constraints, we reduced the range of the missile in LWAMI 3.xx to 25km (as it turns out we actually shorted it a little over it's actual range, but this is fairly minor and will be corrected).

So, everything's good right? Nope.

Because people who I count on to give me good feedback from games are telling me that the P-3 now doesn't have proper ASuW capability, at least not against anything with proper SAM defenses... which is true, the P-3 must now put itself well within the kill radius of most ships equipped with any kind of missile defenses.

So the question is, now that the whole issue of killing submerged targets is out of the way, do you want the Maverick to be a Maverick or a Mavpoon?

View Poll Results: Do you want the P-3 Maverick to be a Maverick or Mavpoon?
Maverick (range ~27km), I want the weapon to behave more like the missile does in the real world.	16	66.67%
Mavpoon (range ~50km) Since P-3 drivers don't have a proper Harpoon for standoff ASuW, a Mavpoon is necessary for ASuW tasking.	8	33.33%
Voters: 24. You may not vote on this poll

03-19-06, 08:34 PM	#1
LuftWolf Ocean Warrior Join Date: May 2005 Location: Free New York Posts: 3,167 Downloads: 2 Uploads: 0	LuftWolf and Amizaur's Realism Mod Poll #9: The Mavpoon I think we are all familiar with the issues that many of us have with the P-3 loadout options, so I'll cut right to the chase. We can't have an ASuW capable version of the Harpoon on the P-3 at this time, sorry. The interface is completely wrong for converting the missile to a Harpoon and unless someone finds something that everyone else has missed, it's not ever going to happen. The Maverick's ability to home and kill stuff underwater is gone, and that's really good. To make it less of a magic weapon (seeing as it's seeker still doesn't require a lock for the missile to home from launch, meaing the missile with 30nm range had Over the Horizon launch capability), and to bring the weapon more inline with it's actual usage constraints, we reduced the range of the missile in LWAMI 3.xx to 25km (as it turns out we actually shorted it a little over it's actual range, but this is fairly minor and will be corrected). So, everything's good right? Nope. Because people who I count on to give me good feedback from games are telling me that the P-3 now doesn't have proper ASuW capability, at least not against anything with proper SAM defenses... which is true, the P-3 must now put itself well within the kill radius of most ships equipped with any kind of missile defenses. So the question is, now that the whole issue of killing submerged targets is out of the way, do you want the Maverick to be a Maverick or a Mavpoon? __________________ LW