still keeping up with yall..

[jeroen79 0]

Sounds interesting.

 

How about an air controller interface? (big radar screen, comms to player aircraft, limited control over AI aircraft)

That could be useful in large multiplaer sessions, one guy looks at the big picture, the rest flies.

[+Dante-JT 6]

How about an air controller interface? (big radar screen, comms to player aircraft, limited control over AI aircraft)

That could be useful in large multiplaer sessions, one guy looks at the big picture, the rest flies.

 

That's a good thing if implemented. Imagine a modern scenario where one guy online sits in an AWACS, directing the strike packages, for example. As we don't have AWACs in the Falklands, some guy would sit in a surface vessel as you mentionated (or ground control). I'm not sure, but I;ve heard that the upcoming first person shooter Battlefield 2 will feature a commander interface for the guy directing the soldiers in the battlefield - if it works, it'll set a sort of trend in other online battlefields.

[Mothman 0]

Joint Operations, from Novalogic, has already some sort of interface in the map were you can build up squads and command the troops (setup waypoints, i think). Considering that there are servers for up to 150 players and huge maps (i'm talking about a lot of real estate) it is not a bad thing if 75 players can get some sort of organization and tactical guidance. I think it could work on private servers of gaming comunities, but i think that in public servers it looks like an impossible mission considering the usual chaos. lol.

[WillR05 0]

The Royal Navy was fully able to deal with the Argentinean Navy, Argentina's Admirals realised this after they lost Belgrano. British SSN's were controlled from Northwood HQ near London and were assigned kill boxes. Each SSN would track vessels in their kill boxes and transmit a list of what they had spotted to Northwood via satellite, Northwood would then talk with the war cabinet and decide what action should be taken. However there were circumstances in which SSN's could take action against Argentine vessels. When Belgrano was sunk HMS Conqueror had applied for a change to the ROE so Belgrano could be sunk. Woodward had communicated to Northwood that he was worried about the possibility of an Argentinean pincer movement on the British Task Force and so Northwood and Thatcher gave permission for a change in the ROE which resulted in Conqueror sending Belgrano to the bottom.

 

After the loss of Belgrano the Argentineans sensibly withdrew the bulk of their Navy into home waters. Had 25 de Mayo actually ventured out of Argentine waters she would have been vulnerable to attack by SSN's. Once in blue water the Argentines would have been at the mercy of Royal Navy SSN's, do not underestimate the ability of the SSN's at this point in History the Royal navy had put a lot o emphasis on SSN operation because of the perceived Soviet threat. Getting 25 de Mayo out to sea would not have been much of an advantage for the Argentineans as the Falklands were already under the umbrella of land based Argentinean air cover. Sending out the 25 de Mayo would have been needlessly risky.

 

Argentine escorts armed with Exocet were also of limited usefulness because they weren't as flexible weapons platforms as the air launched variant. Surface warships are a lot slower and a lot easier to find and destroy than attack aircraft. The Royal Navy was and is so much more powerful than the Argentinean navy not to say that the Argentinean navy didn't pose a threat because it did. Argentina pursued a sensible strategy in the Falklands they used their large air force as their primary means of attacking the British. This was exactly the right thing to do as it risked fewer Argentinean lives than sortieing Frigates or other surface vessels. The terrain of the Falklands allow aircraft to pop up from no where on the radar screen deliver their ordinance and get out. The Argentine advantage in numbers was huge but the 20 or so Sea Harriers of the Royal Navy were excellent machine with very well trained crews.

 

The shear number of escorts sortied by the British was also difficult for the Argentineans to overcome, the British defensive screen in terms of both warships and aircraft proved highly effective and despite losses the British did not lose their mission critical Aircraft Carriers. In reality the Royal Navy held to many trump cards compared to the Argentinean Navy, SSN's and the Sea Harrier being the most significant in that order. The Argentineans were sensible not to risk further losses against Royal Navy SSN's. ;)