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Will you release Nawal War: Arctic Circle™ on www.GoG.com?

gog.com only do "good old games", so I guess that even if they wanted to release it on gog, they couldn't.

(Yes, I know that Witcher 2 was a new game, but that was a one-time exception because it was developed by gog.com's sister company)
 
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But I love their business system!

Incidentally, so do I, and I wish I could buy all my games from them. I also wish they would stock my old games so that I can buy them again to get a digital backup copy. But unfortunately that isn't happening (yet). :(
 
Awesome new NWAC screenshots!

Okay, I'm going to leave it to the devs to post them here, but if you want to see them now, search "naval war arctic circle E3 2011" and feast your eyes on the NEW GUI!!! :D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D:D
 
That's very likely, yes.


Ideal :D so looking forward to a game with a decent user interface. That isn't the missile slug fest that Fleet Command is.

Which leads me to my next question.

Are you are going to have limited stocks of weapons? Fleet command did not have this for Aircraft. Sure they could only have a maximum load out in the air but the carrier didn't have a magazine and so as long as you kept your distance and crippled the enemies longest stike units first.... well you could win anything with aircraft alone.

I'm aware aircraft are powerful in real engagements however carriers don't have unlimited ammunition.
 
Apparently HMS Daring now has Phalanx CIWS fitted and Dauntless has deployed to the FRUKUS war games with 2 Lynx on board for the first time.
 
Apparently HMS Daring now has Phalanx CIWS fitted and Dauntless has deployed to the FRUKUS war games with 2 Lynx on board for the first time.

This was obviously going to happen. The Hanger can support 2 Lynx or 1 Merlin... If your sailing around the UK doing Trials with the Sea Viper system you aint gonna need 2 permenantly deployed helos.

The Navy also knew that if they went "We want 72 VLS A70 cells, 4.5gun, 2 Lynx/Lynx Wildcat, Ships Torpedoes, Harpoon, 2 x CIWS, 2 x 30mm guns" the treasury would have moaned like a bitch. So they wait and pull the resources of retiring ships like the T42's and T22 batch 3's.

So no doubt very soon the majority of the Type 45's will have harpoon, Phalanx and ships torpedoes. With the required Helicopters deployed as needed. Should tensions in any particular area begin to really rise no doubt the extra 16-24 VLS will be added with the required weapons.
 
I knew that anyway Brutoni, but thanks for the info. :p
 
IAre you are going to have limited stocks of weapons? Fleet command did not have this for Aircraft. Sure they could only have a maximum load out in the air but the carrier didn't have a magazine and so as long as you kept your distance and crippled the enemies longest stike units first.... well you could win anything with aircraft alone.
Sorry I missed this one.

Yes, we will.

We can choose specific weapons for which we set the size of the weapon stores for carriers and airports. If no limit is set, it is by default unlimited. In most missions, you'll have limits on Tomahawks but not Sidewinders, just to give an idea. But, yeah, any aircraft weapon with ammo can have limits on how much is available. When you run out, that weapon load will be unavailable for that aircraft.

We realized this is necessary: otherwise a viable tactic in multiplayer could be to launch the bomber aircraft, fire a full load of TLAMs against the enemy airport, land, redo, and keep doing that until some missiles go through. Not a lot of fun.

On airports, there may be some mechanism for replenishing missile supplies as well as aircraft. We're working on a (limited) economy model.
 
I knew that anyway Brutoni, but thanks for the info. :p

Sorry, I need to vent. Currently going through the application process to be an officer. A lot they want you to learn even before they start teaching you stuff. As a result I feel the need to explain it all.... I feel sorry for my girlfriend but she assures me she is happy as long as she gets to go to lots of cocktail parties and spend my money. Not sure I'm going off best on that one ;)

Yeah, I so don't understand the Type 26 decision though, blatently the T26 should be a T45 hull form. With less advanced radar (Artisan), a towed array and good hull sonar. Enlarged hanger for 2 x Merlin and then CAAM instead of Aster supported by NSM (JSM for dual role ASuW and LAM comes out) and fireshadow loitering missile. Phalanx and 30mm again. 114mm or 155mm depending on which one is cheapest and gets the job done.

Only reason BAE hasn't suggested this is because then they lose out on research costs ;) which they charge huge amounts for with things like. "We said we can use CAD but we can't. BUT it's the MoD's fault for that so they should help bail us out." Then the retarted MoD goes "Sure" instead of saying "Give us the ships as agreed on in the contract or we take you to court. We aren't paying for your mistakes!"
 
Sorry, I need to vent. Currently going through the application process to be an officer. A lot they want you to learn even before they start teaching you stuff. As a result I feel the need to explain it all.... I feel sorry for my girlfriend but she assures me she is happy as long as she gets to go to lots of cocktail parties and spend my money. Not sure I'm going off best on that one ;)

Yeah, I so don't understand the Type 26 decision though, blatently the T26 should be a T45 hull form. With less advanced radar (Artisan), a towed array and good hull sonar. Enlarged hanger for 2 x Merlin and then CAAM instead of Aster supported by NSM (JSM for dual role ASuW and LAM comes out) and fireshadow loitering missile. Phalanx and 30mm again. 114mm or 155mm depending on which one is cheapest and gets the job done.

Only reason BAE hasn't suggested this is because then they lose out on research costs ;) which they charge huge amounts for with things like. "We said we can use CAD but we can't. BUT it's the MoD's fault for that so they should help bail us out." Then the retarted MoD goes "Sure" instead of saying "Give us the ships as agreed on in the contract or we take you to court. We aren't paying for your mistakes!"

I'm curious about the T26 not being built on T45 hull form, was the T45 designed to be relatively quiet in terms of underwater noise? I ask because it doesn't have much of an ant-sub ability. I admit I know nothing about the design process for the T45 hull.
 
I'm curious about the T26 not being built on T45 hull form, was the T45 designed to be relatively quiet in terms of underwater noise? I ask because it doesn't have much of an ant-sub ability. I admit I know nothing about the design process for the T45 hull.

The Type 45 wasn't designed to be hugely quiet in terms of underwater noise so potentially some sacrifices would be made in that respects. However it is designed to handle the hull sonar that the Type 23 has. Furthermore it has more than enough space for the towed array that the Type 23's have/are been/being refited with. More importantly however the Type 26 is mean to be a ASW high end warship also capable of general purpose. In that respect the Type 45 has a good advantage due to it's larger size. With the ability for the flight deck to be shrunk slightly so that it only operates up to merlin sized helicopter instead of Chinook and some shuffling around it could operated 2x Merlin helicopters instead of 1 Merlin or 2 Lynx.

2 Merlin would make it a rather capable ASW platform when combined with a good towed array and hull sonar set. The general purpose requirements could be filled with a CAAM fit and then a smaller number of Vertical launch cells dedicated to ASuW and Land attack.

The hull would need minimal to no changes, the radar change would be easy as Sampson is more demanding than Artisan and has more top weight etc. The build cost of the Type 45 minus development is £600 million. A large portion of that is the Sampson array, removing the Sampson array and the expensive Aster 15/30 missiles would probably drop the cost by £200 million easily. That leaves £100 million (to get to the planned £500 million) per ship to make the changes to the Hanger and also to fit the Artisan radar, Sonar suite, CAAM and SCALP/Tomahawk. This would probably be doable so long as the MoD agreed to a large build. Given how easily this could be on budget it would probably allow a build of 12 Type 26 ships and maybe even sneak 2 Type 45 AAW on the build due to the common hull.

The range, speed and size of the Type 45's hull gives it many advantages, and our entire high end fleet being built from that hull would ensure easy upgrade space over the years. Ensuring we get a good total life span from each escort.

The lack of expensive development and research would allow that money to be funelled into the C2 design. Using the Khareef class for that design and modifying it to use Artisan radar, CAAM (instead of mica), 114mm (instead of 75mm) and Harpoon or Sea Skua 2 as it's ASuW load out would provide us with a capable Light Frigate. Especially as the Khareef can carry Lynx Wildcat. IEP would probably extend the range of the ship as well. As the Khareef class is already £133 million for the ship, training for the ship and investment in the infrastructure needed you could probably handle the modifications and weapons/sensors refit for £200 million per ship including the Wildcat. That would easily allow a large number of them to be built (easily around 24 Khareef and 24 Lynx Wildcat for just under £5 billion).

It would put Britain back to having a rolling drumbeat of ship orders, it would ensure small and large ships being built (When you factor in the MCMV and Ocean replacements etc) and thus take away from the rediculous practice of building a ship in blocks and then ferrying it around the UK's coast basically taunting the Sea to sink the tiny tug with the huge section of ship.

It would also ensure that Britain was able to keep it's high end warfighting assets clear for coalition situations as well as high priority requirements from HM government. In the meantime regular patrols, peacetime duties, presence display would be capable of being done by the large number of Khareef vessels that would operate in squadrons of 4 from forward bases in the Falklands, West Indies, Gibralter, Cyprus, Bharain and Britain. The squadron in Britain would be in light/heavy refit or Sea trials while the rest would be operational deployments with 2 ships deployed, 1 ship working up, 1 ship working down. Obviously exact numbers could be altered are required (3 West indies, 3 Falklands, 5 Cyprus, 5 Bharain for current world events.)

Of course this would still require treating our Navy properly and the current thinking in Britain is that despite being a Maritime nation we want to try and be a nation that relies on Ground power supported by a national air force.... Which I think is beginning to make us look stupid in the eyes of the world.
 
Thanks for that very informative post Brutoni, I certainly learned quite a bit. About the C1 and C2 though, I had read that the total for both will be 12, giving us the escort for of 19 set out in the SDSR. I think the original Numbers were 12 C1, 8 C2? I'm not sure but 12 C1 and C2 in total seems awfully low.
 
Looks like quite a beast!


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New British missile three times as fast as current weapons

Travelling at three times the speed of sound and skimming the sea at wave top enemy sailors will have just three seconds to react before they are hit by the latest British-designed missile.

CONCEPT-VISIONS-CV_1925541c.jpg


By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent in Paris7:00AM BST 21 Jun 2011
The Perseus missile will be the most sophisticated weapon in its class travelling at Mach 3 or 2,000 miles an hour, three times the speed of existing weapons.
In midflight it can deploy a further two baby missiles that can help it straddle a ship with devastating firepower or seek out extra targets or confuse surface-to-air missile batteries.
One engineer on the project unveiled at the Paris Air Show, said: "This is the stealth bomber of missiles and can penetrate enemy defences like nothing else."
The £800,000 Perseus, designed to replace the existing Exocet and Storm Shadow weapons, will be invisible to radars until the very last few seconds before the two ton weapon impacts.
Lionel Mazenq, spokesman for defence company MBDA who are developing the missile to be ready by 2030, said it was designed to attack the most advanced warships and land targets.
He said: "The Perseus will be the most advanced missile system known to man.
"It is so intelligent it can hit two or three spots at the same time at an incredible level of accuracy.
"It is propelled by a Ramjet motor and can overcome the most advanced enemy missile defences.
"The missile has a radar seeker and laser radar - capable of mapping the ground at such resolution it can recognise one building from another - and will automatically divert if it is heading towards a residential zone where lives could be lost.
"It is also terrain-hugging. It can skim along the sea at just a couple of metres above the waves.”
Perseus, named after the Greek mythological figure, can be launched from warships or fast jets and will be pitched to several armed forces including Britain’s military.
It is being developed by the part-British owned MBDA defence company which supplies two-thirds of missiles dropped by the RAF in Libya and Afghanistan including the dual mode Brimstone anti-tank device.
 
Thanks for that very informative post Brutoni, I certainly learned quite a bit. About the C1 and C2 though, I had read that the total for both will be 12, giving us the escort for of 19 set out in the SDSR. I think the original Numbers were 12 C1, 8 C2? I'm not sure but 12 C1 and C2 in total seems awfully low.

Ah, this is my fault for not seperating my own conjecture with that which is solid fact. I hope you'll forgive me for getting so wrapped up in my own passion that I became that unclear.

The original numbers were 12 C1, 8 C2 and around 15-20 C3 MCMV capable of doing patrol and other low intensity conflicts.

Currently the C2 is not around as such. Instead what will happen is that 12 Type 26 escorts will be build. Labelled "future surface combatants" these will be specialised in ASuW and ASW. No C2 will be built and the C3 will replace the river patrol class, the ocean survey vessels and our 16 MCMV's.

My belief is that the RN should recieve more funding, as an Island nation we need a strong Navy. Currently the Royal Navy gets the lowest amount of spending AND has to shoulder the burden of Trident. Trident should be moved to a seperate government department and the government should finally accept full responsibility for maintaining that as a "state released strategic deterent operated by the RN but controlled by the state". This should be coupled with the aid budget from India/China and other nuclear states being transferred to the Navy.

Thus allowing the 12 Type 26 to be built as planned. The 16-20 C3 future MCMV/Survey ships as planned. But also allow expansion of 24 C2, modified Khareef class vessels at the cost of £5 billion (more than covered by trident etc) as well as the RFA assets need to forward base them (Some more small replenishment ship/tanker).

EDIT: This would also ensure that although the Aid budget would be reduced Britain could fufil it's role as a security member with greater alricity. The T26/T45, Queen Elizabeth and Amphibious fleet would be retained for pure coalition/high intensity conflicts.

However the 24 Khareef would be forward based around the world, as such we would have numerous naval ships in the Med, the West Indies, the South Atlantic/Falklands, The Suez, the Indian ocean and the Straights of Hormuz... Going by those 6 requirements you would probably have 2-3 ships in each area with the remainder in refit at any one time...

This would allow us to counter the growing threat of Piracy as demonstrated by the Somalian pirates. The growing drugs industry is also best combated at sea due to the largest concentration of drugs being during sea and thus the prime time to hit the drug lords operation is when they are sending those drugs by sea. As well as the usual patrol ability. Immediate humanitarian aid until the arrival of RFA's would also be a good sign with us always being on the scene first in the majority of cases.

Finally it would ensure our "Ace players" are free to ensure the sustainability or missions like Libya. We would be able to put a Carrier battle group AND an amphibious ready group at any one time. With another Carrier battlegroup or amphibious ready group in refit and the final one working up to cover surge requirements if things got really tough.

So your right, I guess I just wanted to highlight how easily the Navy could expand and hence why I think they should use the Type 45 hull for the Type 26 and put the money elsewhere.
 
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Looks like quite a beast!


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New British missile three times as fast as current weapons

Travelling at three times the speed of sound and skimming the sea at wave top enemy sailors will have just three seconds to react before they are hit by the latest British-designed missile.

CONCEPT-VISIONS-CV_1925541c.jpg


By Thomas Harding, Defence Correspondent in Paris7:00AM BST 21 Jun 2011
The Perseus missile will be the most sophisticated weapon in its class travelling at Mach 3 or 2,000 miles an hour, three times the speed of existing weapons.
In midflight it can deploy a further two baby missiles that can help it straddle a ship with devastating firepower or seek out extra targets or confuse surface-to-air missile batteries.
One engineer on the project unveiled at the Paris Air Show, said: "This is the stealth bomber of missiles and can penetrate enemy defences like nothing else."
The £800,000 Perseus, designed to replace the existing Exocet and Storm Shadow weapons, will be invisible to radars until the very last few seconds before the two ton weapon impacts.
Lionel Mazenq, spokesman for defence company MBDA who are developing the missile to be ready by 2030, said it was designed to attack the most advanced warships and land targets.
He said: "The Perseus will be the most advanced missile system known to man.
"It is so intelligent it can hit two or three spots at the same time at an incredible level of accuracy.
"It is propelled by a Ramjet motor and can overcome the most advanced enemy missile defences.
"The missile has a radar seeker and laser radar - capable of mapping the ground at such resolution it can recognise one building from another - and will automatically divert if it is heading towards a residential zone where lives could be lost.
"It is also terrain-hugging. It can skim along the sea at just a couple of metres above the waves.”
Perseus, named after the Greek mythological figure, can be launched from warships or fast jets and will be pitched to several armed forces including Britain’s military.
It is being developed by the part-British owned MBDA defence company which supplies two-thirds of missiles dropped by the RAF in Libya and Afghanistan including the dual mode Brimstone anti-tank device.

THIS HAS to be in the game :D. It is SOOO full of win. Presumably it would fit in well with the games view of the British forces as well. No doubt there would be a limited number on any ship due to being £800,000 each. So you would have to choose your targets carefully, striking at the correct time due to not having as many missiles to swarm your target with.

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Here is a link thats a little more in detail:
http://www.defenseworld.net/go/defe...nic Multirole missile Concept Paris Show 2011
 
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