WHEN to auto active intercept / TMA ?

[MaHuJa]

For active intercept, I would recommend autocrew. The only case of autocrew doing a suboptimal job is when you have incoming pings on average every couple seconds - then it skips some of them.

With active intercept, the ability to do it manually is far more present than for the EW/ESM on the ffg/helo/p3, since you get audio notification of the event. They need it more - but with them, turning it off allows classification.

Some do prefer to play with active intercept autocrew off, but I do not know why.


As for TMA... with many contacts, tma slows down considerably regardless of autocrew, but with a player efficient at manual tma, that player can prioritize the most important targets a lot better. If there is a huge clutter of related contacts, say, a convoy seen from both sphere and towed, then the autotma is the master at determining which pairs belong together.


Manual TMA on the ffg is problematic, due to some shortcomings of the interface.


Some players follow a method of ignoring, not tracking or even dropping, contacts of no interest. Interesting contacts being assigned targets, threat ships, and neutrals that might get caught by their shots.