ESM question, and Harpoon vs. TASM question

[kage]

I haven't played as the FFG in awhile, I cant remember if the crew announces vampire or not.

If you have the CM autocrew on, they do.

Although, I have seen a slight indication of transient when viewing the waterfall display. It's a slightly brighter spike than the actual contact line itself, but I must be looking at the waterfall inorder to know this is happening.

Try LWAMI, where the missiles themselves create a lot of noise, and a bright spike.

I guess it's better to attack with torpedoes with just about any ship or sub.

Anti ship missiles are still very effective against targets without defenses. Ships like that are usually non-combatant, however.


The nature of my attacks depend on the target (convoy vs lone ship) and environment (long detection ranges or short, amount of neutral traffic in the area...) and of course the capabilities of my own ship. I've parked seawolves in front of convoys and let them meet wave after wave of 8 adcaps. I rarely run out. Though sometimes things become interesting and I have to evade torpedoes.