4WheelSword
The original N-body Problem
- Pronouns
- It/She/They
There is a game on steam with a multitude of titles. Jane's Fleet Command. Naval Fleet Command. SCS Fleet Command. The important part however is that, shockingly enough, it lets you command a fleet in the style of C:MANO or Harpoon. It is, essentially, C:MANO light. It's also C:MANO not gonna break the bank, but that's not the point. What is the point is that lurking out there on the web is a major update mod for the game called the Naval Warfare Project. It updates a wealth of stats, adds a huge number of new, and especially modern, units, and generally updates it in considerably more detail. I now have that mod, and the game is all sorts of fancy. Without further ado though, I thought I'd show you a bit about the game, and how easy it is to bone oneself in about five minutes.
Here goes the attack on the Dodsworth:
The Dodsworth, a Brazilian type 22 frigate, has been tasked with the interdiction and destruction of Argentinian warships harassing Brazil's fishing industry. She's armed with two 6-shot Sea Wolf launchers, four box launched mm40 SSM's, a Bofors 40mm and a 20mm Oerlikon. They were promised the support of another frigate, the Bosisio, but it never arrived.
In the tactical map, bottom centre, we can see another ship nearby, identified as an oil tanker.
The Dodsworth ordered both of it's Lynx helicopters readied for flight, and switched on its main radar, the type 967/968. Immediately additional contacts were illuminated, a fishing trawler nearby and two unknown surface vessels some 30-40nm away. Only a few minutes later at 06:03, four incoming MM40 Exocet missiles were detected.
The Dodsworth fired Sea Wolfs and its 40mm at the incoming missiles, but it was too late. At least three, and possibly all four Argentine missiles struck the ship.
Heavy damage was reported across the ship. Flooding caused a list and DC teams rushed to put out fires caused by the missile strikes. The 40mm gun and torpedo tubes were all knocked out by the strikes. Speed was reduced to 12 knots and the radar was wrecked. In just four minutes, the Dodsworth had been caused considerable damage and still couldn't see who'd fired on it. Luckily though, the hanger and SSM's were untouched. The Dodsworth could still strike back.
It wasn't until 06:37 that the frigate got its two Lynx's away and vectored them onto the two unidentified contacts. They were now the Dodsworths eyes, as they should have been before the missile strike.
At twenty to seven, a Lynx ID'ed the enemy as the Rosales, a MEKO 140 class frigate. She was primarily gun armed, but carried four exocets; but only four. She'd expended her missile load, leading her open to the Dodsworth's fire. So she fired.
A pair of were fired, followed by a third. Three hits were confirmed by the Lynx crew at a quarter to seven. The Argentine frigate burned, rolled, and sank. The other contact was confirmed as a civilian vessel a few minutes later. The Dodsworth, her mission complete and with almost all of her weapons destroyed or expended, turned and limped for home.
Thoughts, comments and criticism very welcome. If you like it, I might turn it into a regular thing ^^
Here goes the attack on the Dodsworth:
The Dodsworth, a Brazilian type 22 frigate, has been tasked with the interdiction and destruction of Argentinian warships harassing Brazil's fishing industry. She's armed with two 6-shot Sea Wolf launchers, four box launched mm40 SSM's, a Bofors 40mm and a 20mm Oerlikon. They were promised the support of another frigate, the Bosisio, but it never arrived.
In the tactical map, bottom centre, we can see another ship nearby, identified as an oil tanker.
The Dodsworth ordered both of it's Lynx helicopters readied for flight, and switched on its main radar, the type 967/968. Immediately additional contacts were illuminated, a fishing trawler nearby and two unknown surface vessels some 30-40nm away. Only a few minutes later at 06:03, four incoming MM40 Exocet missiles were detected.
The Dodsworth fired Sea Wolfs and its 40mm at the incoming missiles, but it was too late. At least three, and possibly all four Argentine missiles struck the ship.
Heavy damage was reported across the ship. Flooding caused a list and DC teams rushed to put out fires caused by the missile strikes. The 40mm gun and torpedo tubes were all knocked out by the strikes. Speed was reduced to 12 knots and the radar was wrecked. In just four minutes, the Dodsworth had been caused considerable damage and still couldn't see who'd fired on it. Luckily though, the hanger and SSM's were untouched. The Dodsworth could still strike back.
It wasn't until 06:37 that the frigate got its two Lynx's away and vectored them onto the two unidentified contacts. They were now the Dodsworths eyes, as they should have been before the missile strike.
At twenty to seven, a Lynx ID'ed the enemy as the Rosales, a MEKO 140 class frigate. She was primarily gun armed, but carried four exocets; but only four. She'd expended her missile load, leading her open to the Dodsworth's fire. So she fired.
A pair of were fired, followed by a third. Three hits were confirmed by the Lynx crew at a quarter to seven. The Argentine frigate burned, rolled, and sank. The other contact was confirmed as a civilian vessel a few minutes later. The Dodsworth, her mission complete and with almost all of her weapons destroyed or expended, turned and limped for home.
Thoughts, comments and criticism very welcome. If you like it, I might turn it into a regular thing ^^
