Finding the submarines..

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Hey guys,

I'm still struggeling with this mission where I'm suppose to locate submarines which is trying to "escape". Check out my screenshot.. what am i doing wrong?
http://www.flickr.com/photos/mathistvedt/7074752441/in/photostream

And the game crashed when i used <Prt Scr>

 

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The sub is there, but it's not instantly found. Can take a little while

 

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Ok, I've spent quite some time searching that area.. . I'm also curious how I'll manage to find the other subs before the time runs out. Guess I need to do a full scale launch from the hangarship. I've been trying to get that ship closer to the action to prevent my planes to run out of fuel.

 

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Hi gnageren,

Thanks for the feedback. My first comment is that you seem to be doing the sonobuoy search in a too large area. There is simply so much space between each buoy that you need luck to catch it. If you have a hint, 10-20 km radius is usually what you want on a search pattern.

The playthrough/tutorial video shows exactly how to take out the first sub. The second is hard; you need to get your poseidons to sneak up and search without drawing the attention of enemy fighters, or at least use fighter escorts to keep them away. If you can kill the awacs plane, that will be great.

 

[JonathanRL]

In my missions, finding them was not a big issue. What was the issue was my posedoins flying away after the attack and not staying around to be ready in case the torpedoes missed...

 

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Give the ASW aircraft a patrol box just around the sub first, and then issue the engagement orders. Then it will fall back to the patrol pattern and stay close at hand.

 

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Thanks guys,

I'll see if I can give it another try today (got to give the family some attention too.. they don't understand we have a war going on!)
When you say patrol box. Do you then mean to set a few waypoints like a square? Or can you actually select an entire area and have a plane patrol it?

 

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A right-mouse-button drag box, yes.

 

[alcapwn1]

if you drag when isuing a move order with the right mouse button, you patrol around the edge of the square you form.

Also, the sub moves, I think those are the starting locations, so allow for that.