Really enjoyed this one, think the changes worked well.

Merc, thank you for your thoughts. Glad you enjoyed the mission.

Very good scripting on this one.
The intel gatherting and previously neutral installations turning to the enemy side got me there.

Thank you Ares, glad you enjoyed it.

I enjoyed this. Lotsa action, instead of cruising around looking for subs till I nod off in my chair :-). But one oddity, all the Harpoons seemed to have a short range, it says 65 nm on the card and so they should be able to fire at the bases, well in range but it seems not.

BTW can you rearm the harriers? I felt a bit denuded of top cover when they were all winchester.

Julianj, I’m glad you enjoyed the mission. Harpoons are anti-sea. You cannot use them to hit land targets. To rearm your Harriers, you can issue the return to base command. They’ll land on the LHD and you’ll be able to launch them again with whatever load out you want.

Ahh, right. I forgot I was in the olden days, me hearties!

I do love the Harrier, nice to get to use it. If you do create any new scenarios I'd be happy to playtest them.

Originally posted by julianj:

I enjoyed this. Lotsa action, instead of cruising around looking for subs till I nod off in my chair :-). But one oddity, all the Harpoons seemed to have a short range, it says 65 nm on the card and so they should be able to fire at the bases, well in range but it seems not.

Ummm ...Harpoon is an anti-ship missile, not land attack

Good mission that I just finished today, getting to play with the Marine units was really cool.

The mission was great but man did it take a ton of ordinance to destroy those land bases. At one point I just had my two ships leave the formation, get into range of the bases and fire as many missiles as it as they could.

Even with nearly 20 missiles, two cobra gunships and a flight of 4 harriers the installations still stood, eventually they finally fell and I got the victory notification but I had to sit there doing nothing but lobbing more ordinance than Rolling Thunder to get them to fall.

I'm sure this is due to how Sea Power models land based damage, maybe a change if it's possible to "Do x% damage to installation" for the victory conditions if SP supports that. That might alleviate the issue of eventually getting into a position where you're doing nothing but attacking installation for 20 minutes and it won't fall.

This is one area I hope the developers take a look at, currently it's a huge amount of ordinance needed for ground targets.

The other thing I noticed in a few scenarios is SAM sites don't like to engage very much, I think out of the four scenarios or so with SAMs I've maybe ever had one fire on an aircraft. Is this just due to the difficultly/proficiency that the SAMs are created with or an issue with SP?

It's almost to the point where I don't consider them a threat because in missions like this or the chemical plant they just don't fire.

Awesome mission, thank you for all the hard work.

Naromi, thank you for your feedback.

Unfortunately we do not have any way of setting up a trigger as you have described. Hopefully we get something in a future update. I would like to see some changes to how difficult it is to destroy a building.

I have intentionally limited the number and quality of SAM sites in my missions to keep things from getting too difficult for the player. Most of the sites have a very limited number of missiles so after a salvo or two they stop being a threat. Some even try to shoot down missiles so they might not have any ammo left by the time an aircraft enters its range. I'm open to having more difficult SAM batteries in future missions.