Question regarding EMCON
Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2026 10:42 pm
I have a scenario where I am trying to get one of the sides to have an air defense network of one radar station and two separate SAM sites forming an air defense for this side
2 SAM sites and their radars set to intermittent, and the radar site also with it's radar set to intermittent, and what I THOUGHT, you could do was to have each one given different emission duration, interval, interval random variation settings for each one, and assign each of my air defense units a different color of alert level. That is what I got from reading the revised manual (revision 156). I also told each one to "wake when detecting threat" and I am checking the "custom preset box".
However when playing thru the scenario, I noticed that all the radars where operating continuous and when I went to that side to look at the box indicating if that unit profile was set to Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange or Red, each different unit of my air defense network, radar and 2 different SAM's, the box that was showing was the "custom" box which was showing continuous active radar instead of how I had set it up, with my lone radar unit set for "green" and its different settings of intermittent activity, one of the SAM sites set for 'orange" and its different settings of intermittent activity, and the last SAM unit set to "red" and it's different settings.
I don't have my emcon for the side set to active so that any of these units in my air defense network follow the "inherit" from parent side.
When viewing each of the units and I go to the Unit Status Dialog box on the right hand side and scroll down to the "doctrine" button and click on it opening up that box then I go to the EMCON tab, each unit that I check opens up to the "custom" box which then shows "continuous" emission for that unit instead of the red, green or orange tabs that I set for intermittent. I don't think this is what is supposed to be happening.
I have attached my mission start save file for others to see what is happening.
Thanks everyone.
2 SAM sites and their radars set to intermittent, and the radar site also with it's radar set to intermittent, and what I THOUGHT, you could do was to have each one given different emission duration, interval, interval random variation settings for each one, and assign each of my air defense units a different color of alert level. That is what I got from reading the revised manual (revision 156). I also told each one to "wake when detecting threat" and I am checking the "custom preset box".
However when playing thru the scenario, I noticed that all the radars where operating continuous and when I went to that side to look at the box indicating if that unit profile was set to Green, Blue, Yellow, Orange or Red, each different unit of my air defense network, radar and 2 different SAM's, the box that was showing was the "custom" box which was showing continuous active radar instead of how I had set it up, with my lone radar unit set for "green" and its different settings of intermittent activity, one of the SAM sites set for 'orange" and its different settings of intermittent activity, and the last SAM unit set to "red" and it's different settings.
I don't have my emcon for the side set to active so that any of these units in my air defense network follow the "inherit" from parent side.
When viewing each of the units and I go to the Unit Status Dialog box on the right hand side and scroll down to the "doctrine" button and click on it opening up that box then I go to the EMCON tab, each unit that I check opens up to the "custom" box which then shows "continuous" emission for that unit instead of the red, green or orange tabs that I set for intermittent. I don't think this is what is supposed to be happening.
I have attached my mission start save file for others to see what is happening.
Thanks everyone.