ColonelMolerat
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I'm just about to revisit The Grey Ghost from the East Coast (I've not played it since it released). I remember it being an interesting scenario, but very easy - I simply charged the Ghost into close range and blasted away with the guns. I've heard others say it was more difficult, though. Did I just win through the bravery of the naive? How did others find this scenario? Not just in difficulty, but general thoughts too? Edit: Just completed it again. Again, it felt very easy, but reminded me of why it was one of the campaign highlights for me. I enjoyed it so much because it reminds me of one way in which CMANO isn't like other games - it's not a case of the difficulty ramping up and up until the campaign ends, CMANO has a strong 'explanatory' streak running through it. This mission feels like it wasn't put there as a challenge, but as an interesting 'what if?', to highlight the differences in missile and gun warfare and explore a fun hypothetical scenario. It highlights CMANO's function as a simulator and 'toybox' - an adult's box of toy boats, rather than a military thriller novel. I like these missions that highlight the differences in platforms, and explore their strengths and weaknesses. A brief AAR: Quite shortly after the mission started, I identified a large group of helicopters to the North of Iceland. I sent an Orion to investigate, and it found two enemy fleets. I risked a bit of a suicide mission and hit a couple of enemy boats with Mavericks before getting shot down. I closed in both of my fleets, to arrive at roughly the same time (and adjusted formation so no ships were too much further ahead). At first, my fleets took a bit of a battering, though luckily the enemy ASMs were too primitive (or my missile defences too advanced) to do much damage. At this point I sped up to flank speed to bring all guns close enough to bear. And that was pretty much the end of it! Got very close and chewed up the enemy fleets, one after the other. I lose one Orion plane and one DD 786 ship. The Soviets lost... 2x SKR Kotlin [Pr.56 Spokoinyy] 2x Ka-25Ts Hormone B 1x BPK Kanin [Pr.57A Gnevny] 2x EM Skoryy Mod [Pr.31 Besshumny] 2x KR Sverdlov [Pr.68bis] 1x SKR Kotlin Mod [Pr.56PLO Spokoinyy] 1x VT Altay [Pr.160] 1x Ka-25BSh Hormone A 1x BPK Kashin Mod [Pr.61M] I definitely feel I'm not doing this mission with much finesse, but it's fun to zoom and boom!
< Message edited by ColonelMolerat -- 6/7/2017 9:56:03 PM >
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