i feel like a small quality of life change would be the option to color markers just to make the map a bit more readable. Maybe the devs will implement it

The issue of putting so many ships ahead of a carrier is that, whenever you launch aircrafts, this dumb AI in the game will order the carrier to go flank speed ahead, and then ram into all sorts of stuff.

They need to fix the radar horizons.. at 10k Feet the helicopter's radar should break 100 nm

21:36 You can hold shift to keep deleting marks by the way. You don't have to keep going back to the eraser each time. Should save you a bit of annoyance. I agree it would be nice to use the del key though. I'd also love if you could set a patrol loop if you click a waypoint. So you say go to point A, then B, C, and D, then click A or B and it will loop back on all the other points. Vs having to click 100 times all over to make it go back and forth or a loop.

You are without a doubt creating the best content for this game, thank you so much, keep it up!

from my experience playing the game the Phalanx seems rather useless

Question: why did the soviets have WAY better gear than us in the 80s?

Seems a bit weird that the Mississippi has Tomahawk but doesn't have SM-2 yet in the game. In the real world she got both upgrades at the same time.

Such awesome advice, thanks. I upgraded my RAM and GCard today for SP and now the whole game is humming!

Is it realistic for the harpoons to fly their entire flight profile at an altitude of around 20 ft? The flight profile has been discussed/posted on the internet for ages and it's always been said that most of the flight is flown at around 50 ft and the descent to 20 ft only happens within 10 km or so of the target. Would def change the radar visibility horizon for 'em.

I'm glad you got a shoutout from Jingles my dude, you deserve it for top quality content :)

In the upcoming campaign for Sea Power, I'm curious to how to best utilize the Virginia class CGNs: on one hand, they'd operate well as a QRF w/ the CVNs, on the other hand, they'd be pretty nice to put into SAGs because of their Tomahawks. However, the SM-1s a bit much to be desired.

Is this worth $50 man? thinking about buying it.

I actually don't like a lot of the big huge crazy missions. There's too much mirco, and i get overwhelmed. I'm sure they will work on that love this game. Otherwise

When would the ASROC ever be useful if the MK46 has a longer range? I thought the torpedoes do a circular search pattern?

This video and explaining why having a large fleet of less capable ships, because there will be casualties in war, perfectly highlights the mistake Western navies have made post Cold War. With focusing on scrapping any low capability vessels to instead try to get fewer but more capable ships and the "minimum number to meet mission requirements" The perfect example of this being the retirement of the OHP class without replacement. It will take a generation or more to reverse this. Let us hope naval combat will remain a thing of video games rather than real life.

You should see if the P3 can mount AIM-9's as part of a self defense load out. Pop goes the Helo.

Idk if any Devs are watching/reading this, but those range circles and lines are def pretty neat... but if you could give the option to make them different colors (i.e. put a range circle for your SAMs and one in a different color for your Harpoons/Tomahawks/Red ASuW missiles), one track color for your ships, a different color for the Merchant... Feel like it'd de clutter the map and make all the info that much more readily available to see/understand/digest

Good point. One thing problem with Sea Power so far is that the pre-start formation editor doesn't work. I find that in a lot of the scenarios, but official and usermade, you just don't have time to adjust your formation once it is in movement. Especially with a carrier, as the carrier has to go full speed in a given direction to launch aircraft, which you will ideally want to do from the beginning. This usually means that the escorts can't really reconfigure the formation, which often means that by the time you are fighting whatever needs to be fought, your ships are stuck in whatever super close circular formation the scenario author put you in. Certainly something I hope changes whenever they decide to put in the formation manager feature at the beginning of battles.

Great video and very informative! Thank you very much for your insight.

It's amazing what one can learn watching you and Drachinifel...

Any reason why Charlie didn't shoot missiles when it shot the torps?

Would love if you and TheMightyJingles got together and just talked about Navy stuff. He talked about you in one of his recent videos so I'm sure a lot of subs are coming soon lol

When you’re up against just the Kresta, which has only 4 Sandbox ASMs (i think), do you think it still makes sense to space out the formation so much? Seems like the overlapping air defenses would stand a good chance of neutralizing all four and having a sacrificial missile sponge would be unnecessary?

I'm sure about a billion people have already told you...or you already know...but in the small chance you dont... Check out the signal flags on US ships for a good laugh.

As soon as the Slava ate two missiles I knew it would go down. It happened that way with the one that is at the bottom of the Black Sea.

"Maintaining Undersea Superiority: Status Report" kzbin.info/www/bejne/bonHoGqnr5ycjNE& If any bubbleheads make Sea Power missions using the Sturgeon class, you may want to channel enwrgy from this Vice Admiral (and, while at it, "BEAT ARMY!").

Really enjoying your videos and the knowledge you're sharing with all of us

33:21 waiting for the tankers to form up

Very nice video! Just one minor thing to point out. Once the Slava was down, you could have deleted its air defence radius.

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devs should look at arma 3 for how to make drawing more ergonomic

i've been wondering, why are target speeds not taken into account in AA bubbles? clearly you can launch towards a head on missile at much longer than maximum engagement range

Bravo Zulu (Well Done). Another fine video. As for nobody ever remembering all the stats for various platforms has never studied for a Tactical Action Officer (TAO) qualification. Do I remember it all after 40 years, NO. I am amazed at how much I do remember. It's generally enough to recognize when something isn't right even if I can't explain exactly what. IRL you could have forced a Harpoon to go after the Kresta by manipulating the seeker head of the missile so that the first ship it sees when it turns on is the Kresta. If you know exactly what you are doing but you can have the missile fly over a merchant and hit the enemy on the far side even if it is relatively close. I was classmates with Ray S. who was Fire Control officer for the Yarnell. I was in the Officer's club, I think it was NB, Norfolk, and met a guy who was talking about the Yarnell. I said I knew a guy on the Yarnell. "What's his name?" "Ray S. from Texas. You know him?" He got a deflated look on his face and said, "He's my brother-in-law." "Oh, you're Belinda's brother. I took Ray to the air port in Providence in a snow storm so he could fly home and get married."

Nice and informative video. Thank you!

Another really enjoyable video! when I was learning Soviet Navy ship recognition for my SWO board... the only memory aid I can remember was... "lip stack, weenie pack, guns in back... Krivak" haha

I am a former OHP sailor. Using the Lamps helo would in the search.

In 86/87, I bought various Janes/US Naval Institute Press/Combat Fleets/other books that almost every combatant had amongst UNCLAS pubs officers were expected to familiarize themselves with. I was only an enlistedman, but, I learned of the CIWS having no ability to elevate the barrels to over aeound 65° or 75°. One day, the FCs or GMGs were doing tests on and roloading the CIWS for a FireEx, and I said something along the lines of "Won't do much good if the Soviets can loft a missile enough to just drop on us from zenith, or deop bombs from zenith before we detect." The eyed each other, then said something like, "Good thing hes on our side... How'd you find that out...?" Surely, the then-Soviets had to have already known it since NIS/NAVSEGRU/DOD didn stop the press and others widely disseminating it. Then, I pointed out which press books disclosed it, and it's in books in the Pilot House. It was a few years later that the Navy/Allies uodated the software and hardware necessary to train faster (IIRC) and to elevate higher, almost to 90° (IIRC)

Aircraft returning to base are my favorite intelligence gold mine. Many may think about outgoing aircraft masking exact location, few think about masking aircraft return to base on ship units.

Another weirdo like you! In my NTC/SSC days, I used to regularly haunt Mission Valley (IIRC) and Horton Plaza, JK Gill and other stores buying my own copies of Ships and Aircraft of the US Fleet, Ships and Aircraft of the Soviet Fleet, Jane's, and Combat Fleets, and Bill Gunston books Some Bridge officers probably deemed me weird, buying those instead of beer or doing Vegas runs. Ah: 28 mins reminds me of... "Flight Quarters! Flight Quarters! All hands man your Flight Quarters Stations. Wear no hats topside, throw no articles over the side. The smoking lamp is out aft of Frame 295. Now: Flight Quarters." Then, repeated: "Flight Quarters! Flight Quarters! All hands man your Flight Quarters Stations. Wear no hats topside, throw no articles over the side. The smoking lamp is out aft of Frame 295. Now: Flight Quarters." Then, on helo launch and on approach (at least on my ship, FFG-19) nearing touch down or HIFR... "RED DECK! RED DECK!"

I wish they had different colors for the range circles. I started drawing the radius in different directions for different types of weapons, e.g., SAMs to the left and SSMs to the lower right. Kinda helps to see the full picture, but not as well as with colors.

Your EM episode got mentioned and highly recommended by another creator, think it was Munro (maybe), so hear I am 1. "Wierd like me"...back in my uniform days Yuppers! Not so much now but I'm sure it will all come back to me really quick. 2. I also was concerned about the Towed Arrays. Never got an answer to that. Glad it's "a thing" in the game and that you brought it up. 3. Also looking forward to additions like the Helo Range/Target Me asditions. Well maybe 😊. Soviets were pretty good at this too. 4. Love them Creators Senarios! Will add the more stable ones once I am able to get the early release (Xmas + disability check = next month). I've seen really good ones that are available already! 5. I don't know about the really great "Shift-click" eraser trick/tip either. Because of a reply on here I know now! Thanks for another wonderful playthrough. Learn a lot watching other Content Creators, and tons about sensors and gameplay with yours!