Sakura Blue, 2018 - Beta Release

[Whicker]

the special action: Request Report of Stored Munitions

does not have its script loaded so you get an error. I added the Game_Munitions.lua into the luainit event - and added an action to load it and now it works.

[morphin]

As Taiwan is it possible to transport the Patriot to the islands? For example with ships or the C-130H Hercules on Pingtung AB?

[morphin]

Playing as Taiwan i have this erorr when launching special action "Request report of Stored Munitions"

same error on request transfer

->but Request Report of Deployed Munitions works fine....

Strange

Andy

[morphin]

ok did the same as whicker and it works now

[Andrea G]

ORIGINAL: Whicker


On another note, lots of ship pathing issues in this one, on both sides it looks like. I'm having a hard time getting my ships out of their port areas.

Getting out of Kure will spend most of the scenario I guess

[Whicker]

you have to give them a path around everything and then it works, took me a few tries. The low res imagery doesn't really show where the route works very well.

[Whicker]

I'm going to set the enemy's survivor side to friendly to it so it stops shooting at its own survivors. It probably has spent 10-20 harpoons trying to sink unknown lifeboats. Might even do the same for my side as in my testing of survivor code it will attack lifeboats with whatever ASM it has if it allows free fire on surface ships.

[Whicker]

I'm getting messages about survivors from the other side - I'm playing as Japan - it does look like it is only effecting Taiwan's score though:

COSB
DE SARCOM
P 230600Z NOV 18
FM SEARCH AND RESCUE COMMAND
TO OIC SAKURA BLUE
INFO ALL STATIONS
WD GR27
BT
CONFIDENTIAL
SAR ACTIVITY SUMMARY FOR PRECEDING HOUR AS FOLLOWS:
FFG 933 FONG YANG LIFERAFT #4 IS NO LONGER RESPONDING TO RADIO COMMUNICATION. PRESUMED DECEASED AT 230530Z NOV 18
BT
NNNN

[Whicker]

When you deploy a diver it asks if you are sure - Yes or No - No generates and error.


Exception: invalid arguments to method call
Stack Trace: at NLua.Lua.ThrowExceptionFromError(Int32 oldTop)
at NLua.Lua.DoString(String chunk, String chunkName)
at Command_Core.Lua.LuaSandBox.RunScript(String str, Boolean RunInteractively, String script)

[Whicker]

Its currently Nov 24th but I just got a warning about a typhoon coming on Nov 18th.

ALL
DE METOPS
R 240800Z NOV 18
FM HYDROLOGICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE
TO ALL STATIONS
WD GR67
BT
UNCLASS
WX REPORT 240800Z NOV 18 - WEST PACIFIC REGION
AVERAGE TEMP 17°C / 63°F
SEA STATE 4
LIGHT PRECIPITATION
MODERATE LOW CLOUDS
BT
TYPHOON WARNING: TROPICAL LOW IN FAR WEST PACIFIC IS FORECAST TO FORM TYPHOON "TWINH KHASS" AT APPROX 242000Z NOV 18
EXPECTED TO TRACK WEST TOWARDS MAINLAND CHINA
ANTICIPATE MAJOR DISRUPTION TO OPERATIONS FOR MINIMUM 18 HOURS
FURTHER UPDATES AS AVAILABLE
BT
NNNN

[Whicker]

4 days 16 hours to go - victory for Japan. 76,000 points.

Maybe if the other side had not spent so much time killing life rafts they would have put up more of a fight:

SIDE: Taiwan Combat Ineffective
===========================================================
LOSSES:
-------------------------------
81x Life Raft [5m]

[Rory Noonan]

ORIGINAL: Whicker

Its currently Nov 24th but I just got a warning about a typhoon coming on Nov 18th.

ALL
DE METOPS
R 240800Z NOV 18
FM HYDROLOGICAL AND METEOROLOGICAL OFFICE
TO ALL STATIONS
WD GR67
BT
UNCLASS
WX REPORT 240800Z NOV 18 - WEST PACIFIC REGION
AVERAGE TEMP 17°C / 63°F
SEA STATE 4
LIGHT PRECIPITATION
MODERATE LOW CLOUDS
BT
TYPHOON WARNING: TROPICAL LOW IN FAR WEST PACIFIC IS FORECAST TO FORM TYPHOON "TWINH KHASS" AT APPROX 242000Z NOV 18
EXPECTED TO TRACK WEST TOWARDS MAINLAND CHINA
ANTICIPATE MAJOR DISRUPTION TO OPERATIONS FOR MINIMUM 18 HOURS
FURTHER UPDATES AS AVAILABLE
BT
NNNN

No. Check the NATO DTG format.

240800Z NOV 18 = 0800Z 24 NOV 2018.

[Rory Noonan]

Thanks all for the bug reports, I'll update ASAP but it's still going to be a few days yet. IRL strikes again [:)]

[Andrea G]

Seems that both Ise and Kaga magazine lacks Neartip to reload the ASW helos.

[Whicker]

ha ha - time is so complicated! i kept looking at it trying to understand what time something was going to happen.

In looking at the Taiwan side, there are missions that I don't think ever fired. I was expecting an attack on Naha but never got one. There are loads of AC assigned to a DEAD mission. I never saw any of those in the air but there were a ton on the ground at one of the island bases.

I actually ran out of 5" shells on all the ships I think.

On the AOE ships they are just hanging out, why not have them on the way to the port on one of the contested islands and have them be required to stay there unloading for 24/48 hours or so, and then they could leave and go back to the mainland out of harms way. That would give the player something to think about, the sooner they attack maybe they can get in before the good stuff gets unloaded.

Interesting, just figured out the SkyBow SAM is only for ballistic missiles - I spent a lot of time avoiding those, I wondered why they never really fired at me.

[miller7219]

In fact no Japanese ships have Neartips in their helo magazines. Is it intentional that helos (shipborne) have no ASW weapons available?

[Rory Noonan]

Updated initial post with a .zip that has the correct file structure for current implementation of Lua scripts.

If you were having issues with this scenario not firing scripts this should be solved now [:)]

[Rory Noonan]

Updated to enable munitions transfer functionality (unintentionally not active in previous versions)

[magi]

checking this out......

[magi]

having a problem with this.... there a bunch of reference points... but the missions wont load...
updated to 1117.8.1 tonight....

everything is working well now....