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Originally Posted by Bellman
Why given the tactic assignments I seem to discover the Typhoon first between me and its support, escapes me.
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The Typhoon can fight back. I've gotten shot by it a couple of times. When I first put the scenario togther, I just made something simple that I would enjoy, but figured nobody else would because of the length of time necessary to complete it. I'm shocked that it's been as popular as it is.
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Perhaps one answer, given the N & S. 688 starters is to Group, but given a certain predictability I would prefer a trigger/script
which created the Reds starting positions directly related to the 688s starting position boxes/randomisations.
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That would imply the red force had some knowledge of which direction you were coming from. That's probably realistic given the geography, but I didn't want to make, say, a barrier search followed by an area clearence problem. I wanted to make a simple scenario where I could play with different search tactics and shoot some torpedoes once I found the bad guys.
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If ice coverage was'nt so uniform then the channels/pools would
provide some scope fot those pesky fishing boats.
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I'm putting together a more complicated Strategic ASW scenario. This one is in the Barents Sea, where ice coverage is not so heavy. I'm not sure how I'm going to handle neutral traffic at this point. I'm just trying to get sonobuoy fields to work right. It's fun, though, because there's a SOSUS datum and an MPA to hand off the contact to your submarine.
Besides, in the Kara Sea Scenario, you really don't want too many red herrings. You could be hunting for the SSBN for a very very long time. It doesn't need anything more.
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I hope this mission will provoke ideas for some littoral water scenarios. In the meantime ice is 'cool' !
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I have actually resolved to stay away from contemporary scenarios. I don't want anyone to look at it and say, "that looks a little too much like blah blah blah..." and get me in trouble. It's much safer to come up with hypothetical historical scenarios from out of the Cold War that illustrate a principle that might or might not still be applicable today.
The Kara Sea scenario, is just an area clearence problem. I can change the location, change the environment, change the neutral shipping, change the time of day, change the escorts, etc. and the essentials of the problem would remain the same. It'd just be little details.
I'll let other people hypothesize about future conflicts.