SF2NA Super Pack

[+HomeFries 29]

Post Cold War battleships could be found as flagships in their own battle group, or as part of a carrier battle group. Either way, they required escort as they had minimal self-defense capabilities against modern anti-ship weapons.

[jeanba 1,920]

I have a 1969 campaign(setting: Red Hammer has become a stalemate) that I have played thru once. It works fine. You can have it for the pack if you like. Very Skyhawk/Crusader-centric. Ark Royal is there. F-102 for 57FIS.

 

I upgraded many squadrons as most in the Atlantic were flying the old A-4C (due to Vietnam?)

A few squadrons are wrong; to me this was a lesser evil than planes with no livery. There might be a few more squadron tweaks I could make.

Great idea !

[arthur666 65]

Here is the '69 campaign if anyone wants it. It works as is, but could maybe use some more tweaking as far as squadrons go.

If you use it, take a look thru the data.ini at what planes and boats you'll need. Switch 'em out if you want.

 

Off the top of my head: 3rd party F-102A, Bucc, some RN ships.

 

Other than that, mostly stock+DLC.

 

Oh yeah, and here's an AAR on how the campaign played out. A few things have been changed since then, but nothing major.

NA69.zip

Edited March 18, 2013 by arthur666

[+daddyairplanes 10,261]

Post Cold War battleships could be found as flagships in their own battle group, or as part of a carrier battle group. Either way, they required escort as they had minimal self-defense capabilities against modern anti-ship weapons.

 

well i guess not counting the massive belts of armor from fending off expected 15+ in shells and kamikazes..........

[+HomeFries 29]

But silkworms and sunburns could do a number on the BBs.

[Snailman 517]

Modern ASM - except nuclear of course - have little effect on such heavy armor. In this case I have to praise USN stuff because it is rightful )) Modern warhips have little armor. I'm sure even missiles with cumulative warhead cannot cripple a BB in one shot. Unless a critical hit, of course.

 

PS: Iowa BB have four phalanxes, so they are not that defenceless

 

PS2.: Such platform could be upgraded till the world's end, so it was a great mistake to retire them....

Edited March 29, 2013 by Snailman

[macelena 1,070]

That doesn´t seem to be the main consideration. I guess it was the cost to keep those oldies operational along with the lack of capabilities compared to more modern ships. Maybe if they had been converted the way some cruisers were to carry SAMs or some proposals such as SPY radars and VLS, wich were considered unpractical, could have made them more useful assets. But having a ship whose main advantage is you can let the enemy shoot at you and a limited range gunnery platform is not worth the opportunity cost of crew and money.