How do you operate in an area with many contacts?

Janus · 08-21-06, 07:25 AM

Background:
I am playing the 5th mission in the “Russian Rebellion” campaign which is called “Sovetskaya” in my german version of Dangerous Waters.
The task is to locate enemy subs and destroy them (either on USA’s or russion loyalist’s side).

I started in the Akula for the Russian loyalists with the task to locate rebel SSBNs and to locate and destroy all American subs.
Okay, I patiently started detecting and classifying all contacts. Finally I had found one of the USA’s Los Angeles 688i subs under the thermal layer. Unexperienced as I am I attacked it with an anti submarine rocket.
When the torpedo released from the rocket hit the water hell borke loose.

At the next moment everybody started shooting everybody else, torpedos all around me made it impossible for me to keep track of my contacts.

So what do you do to gain a situational awareness when there are many contacts in the scenario (weapons or ships/subs)?
And by the way: what do you to classify contacts with narrowband sonar which are travelling at almost the same bearing?

08-21-06, 07:25 AM	#1
Janus XO Join Date: Mar 2005 Posts: 434 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	How do you operate in an area with many contacts? Background: I am playing the 5th mission in the “Russian Rebellion” campaign which is called “Sovetskaya” in my german version of Dangerous Waters. The task is to locate enemy subs and destroy them (either on USA’s or russion loyalist’s side). I started in the Akula for the Russian loyalists with the task to locate rebel SSBNs and to locate and destroy all American subs. Okay, I patiently started detecting and classifying all contacts. Finally I had found one of the USA’s Los Angeles 688i subs under the thermal layer. Unexperienced as I am I attacked it with an anti submarine rocket. When the torpedo released from the rocket hit the water hell borke loose. At the next moment everybody started shooting everybody else, torpedos all around me made it impossible for me to keep track of my contacts. So what do you do to gain a situational awareness when there are many contacts in the scenario (weapons or ships/subs)? And by the way: what do you to classify contacts with narrowband sonar which are travelling at almost the same bearing?