Thinking Aloud About Tactics

[SeaQueen]

Originally Posted by Palindromeria

in an ssn i would do that - keep firing and trying to run ahead for another attack until empty. but in lin san liu i feel quite overmatched/outclassed.

You don't necessarily need to run ahead. I just figured that if they're still in range, I might as well shoot. Since surface ships tend to move fast, I usually only have one opportunity to shoot in the KILO so I might as well make the most of it.

i dont like the way the game never detects a scope/masts.

I don't worry about it that much. Periscope detections are definitely possible in real life, but if you do everything smartly then it shouldn't happen that often. As I see it, it's really a pretty minor thing. Besides, if you just figure on what the radar horizon is for a 50' radar antenna against a 6' mast, radar doesn't give you a whole lot of range that sonar wouldn't give you under the right conditions. Also, it's effectiveness is conditioned on the mast being exposed in the first place, so when you figure that radar could only see about as far as the sonar could under the right conditions, and then figure on what the chance of the mast being exposed is, and then figure on where he's going to expose his periscope, the value of periscope detection is really sort of nebulous. If you can get one, it's great, but you won't always get it. Harpoon does mast detections. Every once in a while you get one. It's nice that it's there, but if it wasn't I wouldn't lose sleep.

I worry sometimes that gamers, in a quest to account for everything in minute detail fall into the trap of being "precisely wrong," and overcredit or undercredit things based on arbitrary assumptions of how they think things ought to be. The thing is, since few if any of the gamers have experience, "that looks about right," ends up saying more about what ordinary people THINK is going on in a sea battle than what really happens. That's not what makes it interesting to me, though.

Often times I am firing in to the formation simply hoping that i have focused on the cv (im using some random elements so the formation differs every time) im not using fast reload.

Go ahead. Use your periscope. It has my royal endorsement.