SH3 Commander Malfunctions/Sabotage Feature

Mad Mardigan · 01-15-21, 12:03 AM

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Originally Posted by John Pancoast

Magnetic Anomoly Detection. Able to detect *submerged* subs due to their magnetic influence. Nothing to do with radar.
You get sunk without even knowing an airplane was around. NYGM has them on the Catalina.
Not very common to run across them though. They came about late war.
From the NYGM 3.6f documentation:
"The MAD-mod (MAD-sensor by LGN1). (NYGM 3.6A) This provides selected American Catalinas with a MAD (magnetic anomaly detector) sensor. The MAD sensor is not very sensitive, and it has a short range, but it works day and night to detect the unexpected magnetic field of a submerged U-boat (functions to at least 100m depth) as the Catalina aircraft follows its scripted path overhead. If detected, the Catalina will attack immediately with bombs - and your U-boat will know nothing about it until the bombs start falling around. Rather scary! Even the TC will not drop when this happens. Your only warning will be if you are using the SH3 ‘Noise Meter’, which will turn suddenly red - and you should not be using the Noise Meter for realistic play anyway.
However, before you panic too much, let us reassure you about the following conditions:
a) Not used before January 1943.
b) Used (in SH3) only around the British Isles, the Bay of Biscay and in the approaches west of Gibraltar. (We won’t be more precise, so as to maintain the element of surprise.)
c) The sensor is not very sensitive and has only a short range. Attacks by MAD-Catalinas should be rare in a career, and even rarer in a single patrol. Just as in real life."

Just out of curiosity, any idea if this is modeled in say... CCoM v 12, by chance of those Catalina aircraft..??

Just curious....

M. M.

post edit:

From Aquelarrefox's post, right after yours, is this info:

in air folder you have : ALBS_MADCatalina and ALBS_PBYCatalina

Did some looking in the data\Air folder, & located ''ALBS_PBYCatalina'', but not the ''ALBS_MADCatalina'', so 1 of them, is modeled in CCoM v12, but not both... hmm....