MosheDayan
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ORIGINAL: Alfred MosheDayan, Have a look at this thread. http://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tm.asp?m=2653621&mpage=1&key=sub%2Cspotting? Alfred Thanks Alfred - as always very helpful, though I must say that there are lots of contradictory opinions there (in addition to the whole rudeness to the devs part of the thread). I'm still not 100% sure if ASW is only about attacking a detected sub, or if it's also used to detect subs (or rather, if it's equally effective in spotting as NavS). Neither am I sure whether or not other skills come into play (e.g. NavS for spotting, or bombing skills like LowN for attacking). I'm not so concerned at this point about the planes attacking the subs as I wonder about spotting. Again, the dbs around my carrier TFs seem to spot every sub (they are generally on Nav Search 30%, at about 13000 ft, with admittedly very high xp, reasonable NavS and low ASW), while dedicated ASW air groups with reasonable ASW skills (mid 60's) seem to spot them only rarely (and not because the subs aren't there - I keep getting recce'd by Glens). At any rate, this isn't crucial, but it seems that there's little consensus on the topic (except that to hit subs using ASW you need 70+ ASW skill). On a side note, the search functionality of the Matrix site is still buggy, and I think it has to do with what browser you're using. Works pretty well at home on Firefox 4, but almost never at work using IE. EDIT: "Naval search skill enables the planes to find the subs, ASW skill is how they do after finding it. " Ok. If that's what the devs say, then that means I misunderstood the purpose of ASW (which I had thought was to do both find them and kill them). Problem solved. Thanks all for chiming in. This might be a good time to mention that WITP:AE is a game I've been waiting for since I started wargaming in the 1970's (anyone remember the Avalon Hill board game... I think it was called Rising Sun?). Thanks to all who made it possible.
< Message edited by MosheDayan -- 5/26/2011 4:06:23 PM >
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