What exactly is the Kara class ASW cruiser trying to do specifically?
The cruiser has been assigned a Ship Strike mission on the AGP Horten.
It will fire all of its missiles, but it will not close to engage with guns.
How do you think is this related to the navigation bug?
It appears unable to plot / find a path to the AGP Horten. If the player intervenes and plots a path to the Horten, the Kara follows it and then destroys the ship with gunner.
A second test scen has been made with a Sovremennyy unit. All the missiles have been unloaded. [Otherwise, it fires and destroys the Horten]. Still fails to close to engage with guns.
No. With the SSMs removed, the only available weapons are the guns.
I also tested with having a single Sunburn missile aboard. However, since the SSM often KILLED the Horten outright, it was difficult to see if the guns would engage.
On the rare occasion that the SSM missed, the DDG was unable to close to engagement range with its guns.
Loaded the scene and ran it as you first reported. The Kara launched all missiles and then would not close to gun range. Checked the target AGI, and it was not radiating and not moving. I think the AI classified it as a probable kill at this point, so the Kara would not close by itself. Not sure why the game did not mark the AGI as probable kill in the unit window.
Manually plotted an intercept course for the Kara, and when it got within visual ID range, it indeed fired guns and completed the sinking of the AGI.
I will write this up and post on the bug list.
Thanks Hermann
Jeff Krump
When you have to kill a man, it costs nothing to be polite.
-Sir Winston Churchill-
We have tested this behaviour with our newest internal build (we are currently working on the first maintenance release patch) and it seems to work fine there.
