Feature: The Warship Database Project Version 6.5

One of my gripes with the original was that you could have everything shut down and still the game would become "Missile Command" with a huge incoming salvo of anti-ship missiles (not to forget that the target ships would just sit there and do nothing).

I'd like to see scenarios where all you have for intelligence is that there's an enemy surface group "out there" and it's up to you to detect them and set up an approach/attack while trying to remain undetected yourself. This seems a more realistic start than already knowing approximately where everything is and simply reacting.

Feedback would be welcome!

This probably isn't a fair question to ask (I don't have the game) but three questions:

1. RT
Do any of the units employ remote targeting (say proximity flyby on the guidance platform or arrival-at-X timing requirement to get auto-handoff coordinates...)?

ASST from an S-3/SH-60B/P-3 or Nimrod with either 'smart' or 'dumb' (GPS orientation) gate-handing to a Tornado/A-6/F-18 flight can extend the fourships downrange launch footprint, selectivity (APS-137B ISAR) and even it's salvo numbers (Tornado's only have two 'smart' rails for the Sea Eagle, while fuel can also be critical if you have to monkey around.

For the Russians, this also extends to the missiles themselves. I believe either the Kingfish or the Sunburn have linked-targeting capabilities.

For helos and particularly PC type craft, it's also the ability to steer the emission line away from bearing-X back to the shooters.

2. Decoys.
Do any of the aircraft get sophisticated decoys like the TAAED or the Loralei/ASTE kinematic flare? I realize it's just glitz but to see a flare pop, fly alongside your airframe and then gradually curve away while drawing an 'active' (rocket) plume is neat. So two a 100 meters of 'neaner neaner NEEEEE-ner! explode behind me on rf homing missiles going after my Gilligan (this would be applicable to both the B-1B and the JAS-39 btw).

3. Rf Ducting
The ability to see through an air corridor to longer than normal ranges and/or lower than normal popup acquistion heights, including 'below the horizon' on the naval threat.

I /think/ it uses the anaprop lines like a tropobounce 'channel' between air and sea but gives you upwards of 50% more range.

4. Active Hydro Defense.
I forget the program name but one of the more interesting test programs I've seen involves laying or dragging floating explosive relays like a giant primachord and then detonating it just before an AShM passes overhead.

The wall-of-water is again 'pretty to look at' and more importantly, effectively destabilizes the weapon into the drink and because it isn't directly tied to the protected hull-LOS is not as vulnerable to late-acquistion, secondary-threat servicing delays or close-aboard warhead shock effects as conventional CIWS.

Together with conventional rf beaconating it also provides you with a strategic choice: hunt the bad guys 100nm over the horizon or play it 'close to the boat' at home.

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I take it you haven't read the remarks about this game here or else where. The game isn't that advance to have all that modeled, although Warship is trying to compensate for these things!

1) They have super radars that can find targets at max range no matter what the target is and how big the RCS is. So you don't need to link up the missiles to give them over the horizon data.

2) The decoys could be sophicated but the 3D art of them just shows them as a normal chaff (kinda like what you would see a plane shoot off). You can edit how powerful the effect the decoy has on a missile. So that all depends on how you edit the database.

3) Not exactly sure what you mean by RF ducting but I'll try my best to answer it. You can see everything that moves (or doesn't, hovering helicopters) at max range. The horizon had no effect on the radars at all. They have super radars that detected targets at max range, like I said in the first statement.

4) Wow that sounds interesting! The only decoys that ships carry (not all of them do I believe, at least in the normal version without the Warship Database in they didn't) are ones to decoy torpedos. Until I found out that Jane's switched the ship decoy with the subs' and got it working right, torps were a guarenteed killing weapon in the game. They (ship decoy) work with good success if you can get the torp to do a tail chase with your ship.

I hope this answers your questions. ;-)