Multiplayer madness

[Stalintc]

Myself and Herman just played lone wolf on Tony's server (thanks again man, you ROCK)

Just a few screenshots with descriptions to show how I played as the soviet ASW team.

First here you can see my initial sonobouy setup I kept and altered this arrangement slighty to allow a good coverage without spamming them

[Stalintc]

I next eventually picked herman up on one of my sonobouys to the North West, an ASW was on its way but I sent some 14's over to drop some torps, partly in panic of losing the contact. Whilst my other two helos closed in.

The missile attack failed, but I kept contact to which I triangulated him with three sonobouys, I fired two more ASW missiles from my helo, but due to lack of proper info they failed. I was far too ambitious here.

I kept contact till my sonar dipper could arrive on scene.

[Stalintc]

I now had a strong hard contact, and with one missile left on my other helo I fired for a side shot, this shot streamed right past his stern and he didnt even launch a decoy, this was one hell of a near miss.

I was running out of options.

My sonar dipping helo stayed with him as he changed course, while the other helo went back for more weapons.

I next decided to run a gamble... I had a fast attack vessel in my Task force, not far away from the contact. My gamble was to out of the blue run this vessel at full speed right at Herman, changing course just before firing some smerch ASW mortars at him.

The gambit paid off. No assets were lost, his sub was destroyed outright.

Herman really gave me a run for my money, this was an excellent game hats off to him. This is my first MP victory so im quite proud of it [8D]

[hermanhum]

We played Lone Wolf with the PlayersDB. Thanks for the scenario, Dave Steinmeyer!

Stalin played an excellent game! Held me at all the right points and gave me a thorough thrashing. The move to run his little corvette into ASW rocket range was Pure Balls! [:D]

It caught me napping just as I was about to torpedo the little bugger. Brilliant! [X(]

Thanks, for an excellent match. [8D]

[Stalintc]

Now it was my turn to play the hunted, and it was a harsh one to say the least

I decided to follow the coast with my SSN to the target zone, stopping on the way to review any contacts for a while.

not too long into the scen I had several ship contacts on my scope, seemingly heading in my direction by the coastline. After some monitoring I noticed the ships go to 23 knots from 15. I decided to play safe and double back to a ridge not far away and use that to hide from acoustics.

[Stalintc]

I had made it round the ridge finally!! and all contact with him ceased and I cleared the datum, I waited to see if anything came round the corner with my finger on the trigger, but nothing came.

It was now time to take a peak again, so I moved very slowly (2knots) to just crest the ridge, to which I regained contact with hi task force, I gave it some time and allowed the contact accuracy to grow, to an extent where I had him on a steady course and speed headed to the North East away from my location.

[Stalintc]

I now made my break for it, starting at 1 knot, then 2 then 3 knots moving steady along the coast I felt confident I had not been seen.

BUT THEN!! Hermans sonars went active, I now had an extremely accurate picture of his ASW screen, and found the hole was indeed by the coast, so I continued, stopping to monitor his movement now and then.

it looked like I was going to make it, but then.... boom, I had been sunk, one of his ASW helicopters with dipping sonar caught me red handed, I got what I deserved at last [:)]

This scenario took quite a bit of time, but it was huge amounts of fun and VERY tense for me, I enjoyed myself thoroughly, thank you to the scen designer and Tony for the server.

Herman played an excellent game he made it VERY tough for me to get through his defences, and plugging his hole with that ASW helo was brillaint move and really caught me on the hop. Well played to you Herman, fantastic stuff!

Herman had his revenge

Thanks

[hermanhum]

Stalin turned out to be the calm, collected sub driver I expected. Although we had just switched sides after previously playing the same scen, I tried to play it as though I had no idea what was coming. Therefore, I just set up a patrol zone for my surface group and had my ASW pattern worked out.

I decided not to use the ASW helos on patrol and only for prosecution since I thought that they would be much too powerful; especially since I already knew that a sub was in the area. I didn't think that it would be 'cricket'. [;)]

Because of the Bug Report: Sensors won't turn off Intermittent, I turned on my ships to blast the waters constantly. I knew that I would be revealing myself to any sub in the area, but c'est la vie. Normally, I would put them on intermittent in hopes of surprising and catching a sub. That would not be the case, today.

Stalin ran an excellent ingress route. He stopped to listen and gauge my screen, like any good sub commander would. He would have likely gotten through since I had accidentally run a couple of corvettes right out of fuel! So, I decided that I would use a helo in support and plug my holes. I sent her out and got very lucky. One dip and she found herself a sub and launched a torpedo without even asking me.

Anyway, I got lucky. Stalin ran a very competent approach and did all the right things. However, sometimes the other side can get lucky, too.

Great game, Stalin. Thanks and I look forward to many more! [8D]

[ClaudeJ]

Nice AAR guys, thanks for taking time to write it

[Stalintc]

Thanks Herman and Jan, its nice to have some positive comments like that. It helps me to know im learning on the right track anyhow [:)]
 
Plus what is better than having fun while learning, I got a real sense of achievement from last nights games, I had learnt something and had a blast all at the same time.
 
Nice to know I was doing it right from a more veteran MP player [8D]