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Path: sparky!uunet!caen!uflorida!elm.circa.ufl.edu!u4657abl From: u4657abl@elm.circa.ufl.edu (Marv Conn) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.games Subject: Harpoon 1.32 is OUT!!!! Message-ID: <37630@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu> Date: 16 Nov 92 00:19:33 GMT Sender: news@uflorida.cis.ufl.edu Organization: University of Florida, Gainesville Lines: 715 Nntp-Posting-Host: elm.circa.ufl.edu This is the readme file from the new V 1.32 release that is now on Compuserve. Its got some good and some bad news in it. I haven't had a chance to play it yet, so I don't know how it works. I have the 386 only version. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Harpoon 1.32 Release Notes ========================== The following document includes a description of the differences between PC Harpoon versions 1.30, 1.31, and 1.32. Also included are some tactics and hints that illustrate some of the new features. You should first read through both the 1.30 or 1.31 manual and the README.TXT file on your original release diskettes. The 1.30 README.TXT file contains some very important information about playing Harpoon version 1.3+ that was not covered in some releases of the manual. This summary also contains useful information about known limitations and work-arounds for problems that were not addressed. The programmers at Three-Sixty have spent many months fixing, cleaning up and fine tuning this program. We thank you for your patience and hope you enjoy it as much as we do. -- Michael Steele ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Low Memory and Insufficient Master Handles with Large Scenarios When playing a large scenario you should get into the habit of frequently saving and re-loading your game (using ALT-S and ALT-L). Saving the game permits you to restart the scenario where you left off, should you have a sudden memory crash. If you re-load a saved scenario, the program memory is de-fragmented, providing more available memory than prior to saving the game. Do this frequently when you are running low on memory. Indicators of low memory are: No Staff Assistant picture, no animations, and warning messages. When playing with low memory due to scenario size, avoid using the database, and do not have any air patrols airborne that are not required. PC Harpoon pushes the 640K barrier of DOS. Some scenarios will cause problems when lots of action is going on at once in a large scenario. SAVE EARLY AND SAVE OFTEN!!! Be sure to follow the recommended system configurations in the 1.3/1.31 manual. If possible, use DOS 5.0 and your mouse driver both loaded in high menory. Large scenarios (with many units) will rapidly use all the master handles that Harpoon needs to keep track of units in the computer's memory. Some of these scenarios will cause Harpoon to crash because of insufficient master handles. This happens because the default number of handles is exceeded. We have added a command line switch to allow the user to increase the number of master handles available to Harpoon. Unfortunately, increasing handles will use up more memory. Because of this two-edged situation, we decided to give the user the ability to add more master handles rather than just increase the default number of handles. To help prevent problems, you should consider playing large scenarios without using the Auto Formation Air Patrol function. Auto Formation Air Patrols use up Handles, especially if you also manually place air patrols. If you want to still use Auto Formation Air Patrols you need to be aware that these patrols are present and using both memory and handles. Most large scenario with many units will run using the H3 or H4 command line switch (see below). ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Command Line Switches The X switch now toggles EMS (not Extended) memory swapping of the program overlays. This does not free up more memory, but does speed up play quite a bit. Do not use this with a RAM disk, or when you suspect conflicts with other TSRs that employ EMS. The 'g' and 'r' switches now work properly. The H switch now allows the user to fine-tune the number of memory handles that Harpoon uses for keeping track of platforms. The format is 'Hn' where 'n' is number from 1 to 9. Each increment of n adds 128 more handles to Harpoon's base handle count. Please note the change from an increment of 64 handles in V1.31 to 128 handles in V1.32. These should allow users to run large scenarios that would previously crash due to 'insufficient master handles' errors. Such scenarios should still be saved fairly often. Examples: harpoon L <---- Keep a log harpoon X L -gF <---- Use EMS/EXT, keep a log, and look for the graphic res files on drive F: harpoon h4 -rE <---- Use 512 more handles, and look on drive E: for the data res files. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Employment of ARM missiles Some users have expressed confusion about the proper use of missiles with anti-radiation seekers. ARMs may be employed against non-radiating targets in the expectation that they will turn on their sensors at some time during the flight of the weapon. This is why you can fire ARMs against targets that have no active radars. If an ARM missile hits a base or a ship while the target is radiating (eg. has it's radars on), the active radar(s) will be destroyed and the missile will cause airburst damage, which may destroy non-hardened items like aircraft or the ship's bridge, etc. It can also start a fire. If an ARM missile arrives at a base or ship, but no radar is on, ***little or no damage will be done at all by the missile!*** Tactics: ARM strikes are used to blind your enemy to incoming strikes and should be followed up as soon as possible by a conventional attack that will do more permanent damage to the target (while the enemy is trying to repair the radars).. Advanced Tactics: Please note that ESM detection occurs every 30 seconds. If you try and stimulate the enemy target into turning on their radars (perhaps by turning on your radars) just before an ARM arrives, be advised that the enemy might not react for up to 30 seconds. You should time such sneaky tricks so the ARM has at least 30 seconds of flight time remaining to the target. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Surface/Submarine launched homing torpedoes Some confusion about how torpedoes behave has been expressed by our testers, in particular with homing vs. wire guided torpedoes. Homing torpedoes head toward the last known intercept position of the target, as calculated at launch. If they encounter a target along this path, they will attack it. When they reach the interception point, they will enter a search pattern centered around the original intercept path. If the target has changed course during the torpedo run, the torpedo has no way of knowing the target isn't where it's supposed to be. A good chance exists (especially on long range shots) that a maneuvering target won't be anywhere near the torpedoes path if this happens and the shot might be wasted. This is why the computer will turn away from incoming torpedoes. The torpedo will still roam about, trying to find a target until it's fuel runs out. In contrast, wire-guided torpedoes will be launched along an intercept course to a target, but as long as the launching platform still has an exact fix on the target the torpedo will steer to a continually updated interception point. Wire-guided torpedoes will ignore any other targets that might happen to be in the way while they are being guided to a target whose location is exactly known. If the launching platform loses the fix on the target, the torpedo will continue towards the last known interception point, but will engage any target it hears along the way. Tactics: Always change course when torpedoes are incoming! This will wreck the intercept geometry of the torpedo launch, and if you have time, put enough distance between the targeted ships and the torpedo's path so they are not heard by the weapon's seeker. Advanced Tactics: Jump all over the launching sub! Wire-guided torps are extremely dangerous only if the launcher has a good fix on you. Put some torpedoes in the water around him and fire back along the bearing if given the chance. If the sub decides to run for it, he will lose his exact fix on you, and the torps will go for the last known intercept point (which you should immediately invalidate by changing course and speed). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SAM and Aircraft behavior Surface groups defending themselves against SSMs now optimize their targeting decisions to avoid duplicate engagements. Ships will contribute to the overall area defense based on their range and rates of fire. Ships will choose to engage missiles targeted on themselves over contributing to area defense when the range begins to get critical. SAMs now fly to the predicted intercept point, rather than the simpler stern-chase methods previously employed. Rates of Fire and number of fire-control channels on each platform is a prime limitation on the number of targets you will see engaged. There is unfortunately no way for the user to see the number of director channels each ship possesses from within Harpoon. Any number of reference materials exist (check your local library) that show this type of information about various platforms. Our recommendation is "Jane's Fighting Ships" or "Combat Fleets of the World". (Shameless plug---> ) The original Harpoon boardgame from GDW is probably your best bet though, and the price is really great compared to a copy of "Jane's". ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Air-to-Air Missile Combat The guidance restrictions imposed on SAMs also apply to the air-to-air missiles as well. Semi-Active Radar Homing (SARH) missiles require radar guidance to their targets, while Terminal Active Radar Homing (TARH) missiles have their own radar seekers and can find target on their own. Some missiles have Snap-up/Snap-down capability and suffer no penalties for being launched at an altitude different from that of their targets (AMRAAM, AA-10, MICA, Sparrows, SkyFlash, etc). Missiles without snap-up/down will have a reduced chance to hit if fired from a different altitude band than their targets. Tactics: At medium ranges, getting off the first good shot becomes even more important, as SARH missiles will miss if they are not being radar guided. This means if your outgoing missile destroys the enemy aircraft before his SARH missiles get to you, the incoming missiles will be destroyed when his planes are destroyed. As TARH missiles can acquire targets on their own, you should *not* fire them into a dogfight from long ranges. An even chance exists that the aircraft they decide to engage will be friendly. Medium range shots against isolated incoming enemy units present the best geometry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aircraft endurance We have fixed several problems with aircraft endurance that make the version 1.30 changes much more accurate and meaningful. Patrol aircraft should no longer drop from the skies with no warning. Now aircraft have a more consistant and realistic model of endurance. This table shows fuel consumption coefficients for the various altitude bands and throttle settings. (Note: 1.0 = normal fuel consumption rate) ------------------------------------ Helo Turbo prop Jets Loiter L 1.0 .75 .75 M 1.0 .75 .75 H 1.0 .75 .75 ------------------------------------ Cruise L 1.0 1.0 1.5 M 1.0 1.0 1.0 H --- 1.5 1.0 ------------------------------------ Military L 1.1 1.5 2.5 M 1.1 1.5 2.5 H --- 1.5 2.5 ------------------------------------ Re heat L --- --- 12.5 M --- --- 12.5 H --- --- 12.5 ------------------------------------ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Air-to-Ground Jettisons Aircraft which are attacked by a sufficient number of fighters in air-to-air combat will jettison all air-to-ground ordnance and abort their mission! If you find your attack aircraft suddenly have no more air-to-ground ordnance, chances are good that you let enemy fighters get too close. Tactics: It is now *much* more important to establish at least temporary air superiority over strike routes. Send fighters ahead of strike packages to keep the enemy fighters busy. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Weapons Allocation and Rate-of-Fire Mount Empty - This message appears next to weapons mount selections that are either empty or are unable to engage due to rate-of-fire or director limitations. In either case, the mount is effectively empty and may not be employed until reloaded. A F[ull Report] for the unit in question will usually reveal whether or not that unit still has remaining ammunition. Rate-of-Fire times tend to cycle every 15 or 30 seconds. This means you will not be able to use the ordnance mount until it either reloads or finishes whatever mounts do between firings. For aircraft, this means you may be prompted by the Staff Assistant to close to a nearer range so you may engage your target with other weapons. If you wish to wait until the longer ranged weapons come back online, simply choose <NO> and try to re-attack in a few moments. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SAM/AAM Auto-Fire Logic When your SAM launchers or Aircraft automatically attack incoming enemy aircraft (not missiles), they will attempt to fire only when the incoming aircraft are close enough so they cannot escape by merely turning around for a few seconds. This holdoff prevents the enemy aircraft from suckering your defenses out of missiles by using 'Turn-and-burn' tactics. This logic is used *only* for aircraft targets when your SAM range gate setting is at "Optimum Range". All other settings will engage aircraft targets at the appropriate range for that setting. Missile targets are always engaged at maximum interception range. Enemy aircraft *will* attempt to avoid incoming missile fire by dropping to lower altitudes and/or running away for a while. All aircraft attempting to close against surface targets will endeavor to avoid radar illumination for as long as possible (usually by dropping under the radar horizon). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Aircraft Intercept Geometry The aircraft intercept routines have been substantially rewritten. Aircraft given an intercept order will now try to intercept at the fastest speed allowed by their fuel status, giving much shorter intercepts than the earlier algorithm, which used the slowest possible intercept speed. As a result, much less micro-management of intercepts is needed as maneuvering targets are less likely to escape. Some of the logic is still (necessarily) conservative and most players will be able to get the best performance by hand controlling some of the trickier intercepts. Be aware that manually adjusting the speed or altitude of an intercepting group will now remove the intercept order. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Radar Target Enhancers (Blip Enhancers) The following helicopters carry radar blip enhancers. NATO LAMPS-II SH-60 Seahawks/Oceanhawks NATO LAMPS-I Sea Sprite ALL Sea King ALL Lynx ALL AEW Helix Note that some missiles may have more than one method of finding a target, (for example; InfraRed ) and will not be as easily fooled by such tricks... The player has no control over whether blip enhancers are on or off. Remember that the 20% chance is cumulative, so the more helos are in the air, the better the chance that some missiles will be decoyed. Helicopters are *not* at risk from the SSM missiles, although some proximity fused Air-to-Air missiles fired at surface targets could conceivably attack the decoying helos if they pass close enough. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- New Sonobuoy Display A new hot key has been added to Harpoon. The ALT-V combination now toggles sonobuoy representation between the area display and a new icon display. If sonobuoys are displayed in the Unit Window, they will show either as a rectangle which roughly corresponds to the maximum detection radius of the sonobuoy or as a sonobuoy icon at the actual location of the sonobuoy. Use of the sonobuoy icon is automatically enabled for the 8 X zoom level on the Unit Window, or if a sonobuoy is located on the window but its area is not displayed because part of it is off the window. ====================================================================== PC HARPOON 1.32 CONTENT LIST ---------------------------- This section of this text file describes the bugs that were fixed in Computer Harpoon (PC) Version 1.32. Descriptions of known bugs or limitations that have not been fixed are also included. Additionally, some clarifications to the manual and previous README.TXT files have been included to help clear up some misconceptions and confusion. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Harpoon used it's internal memory Handles inefficiently. Better use of the handles, reduction of waste memory and a bug fix to the garbage collection routine has helped to eliminate this. For large scenarios that run out of handles before running out of memory, a new command line switch (H#) allows Harpoon to start with more handles. About 20,000 bytes of previously reserved memory was also freed for scenario use. ---------------------------------------------------------------- In addition to the regular HARPOON.EXE program, we also included in this release is 80386 machine specific version of Harpoon named HARP386.EXE. This version has all the same features as regular Harpoon, but has been compiled to take advantage of the 80386 instruction set. HARP386.EXE is a bit faster and about 20K smaller than regular HARPOON.EXE, but can *ONLY* be run on 80386 machines. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Certain internal speaker sound effects (torpedo launches, etc) used to lock the computer. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Several loose pointer bugs have been eliminated, greatly increasing the stability of Harpoon. Many seemingly random crashes have been eliminated. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Raw Extended Memory is no longer used for code overlays. Too many TSRs violate identification rules and caused conflicts. Harpoon will now attempt to locate and use EMS 4.0 if the user specifies an 'X' on the command line. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Getting a [F]ull report on certain enemy airfields would crash Harpoon. ---------------------------------------------------------------- 'F' key was fixed to not allow Full Reports on unidentified enemy ships. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Victory conditions are not as obvious or intuitive as might have been implied by the printed documentation. Total victory conditions are *always* complementary to your minimal victory conditions. To achieve a total victory, you *must* have first achieved, or simultaneously achieve your minimal victory conditions. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Unit and Group IDs are now reused, allowing much neater management of objects in the playing arena. This also fixes the problem of running out of unit IDs. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Bearing-Only (activation point) launches <ALT-B> would crash Harpoon when used with certain types of ordnance under certain conditions. Now any type (except torpedoes) of ordnance with inertial guidance and some type of autonomous terminal seeker may be launched this way. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The aircraft Air-to-Ground ordnance jettison logic would drop ordnance too easily in some cases. A significant threat level must be exceeded before attack a/c will jettison (about 25% of the attack a/c must be threatened). Some problems involving unformed airgroups jettisoning ordnance have also been addressed. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Jettisons and automatic area defenses would not update the ASuW or AAW range rings around a group if they depleted all remaining ordnance in that unit/group. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The Intercept logic has been entirely rewritten. Aircraft will now attempt to make the soonest intercept possible (taking into consideration their fuel status) against other aircraft. Attack aircraft will commence their attack runs against a surface target as fast and low as possible to limit exposure to detection and defenses. A group ordered on an intercept will recalculate the geometry every few moments. Manually changing the course, altitude or speed of the attacker will negate the intercept order and disengage the recalculation feature (effectively turning off the 'cruise-control'). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submarines used to be immune from attack when operating on the surface. Torpedoes will now successfully attack a surfaced submarine, although other ordnance types still will not. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submarines now take sixty seconds to change a depth band. Once the maneuver order has been given, it will take a few moments to complete. Be patient. torpedoes now take only thirty seconds to change a depth band. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submarines would rarely fire SSMs against surface targets. This depended on range and detection status. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Landing or forming airgroups were entirely lost if the airborne component was destroyed. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Some (not all) anti-ship ordnance with inertial guidance can be used against land targets. Harpoons can NOT be used against land targets. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Time compression problems sometimes prevented short-ranged weapons (eg. iron bombs) from ever being in range. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Because ROF restrictions will make some mounts unavailable for a short period of time, some platforms will ask to close to the next effective weapon range as soon as longer ranged mounts are busy. Saying <NO> to the Staff Asst. request will make aircraft continue on present course until the mount recycles. See the Release-Notes section up above for more details ---------------------------------------------------------------- Some aircraft would lose or postpone attack orders. This will still occur in some circumstances. In most instances, merely waiting a few moments will cause the attack to commence. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Aircraft only get four (4) attacks with internal cannon. After this ammunition is used up, the aircraft will no longer be able to attack targets with gunfire. There is no way for the user to tell when an aircraft has expended it's cannon ammo. This ammunition modeling explains why fighters will RTB instead of continuing to make gun attacks on some targets. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Surface gun attacks will now cease re-attacking when the target moves out of range or is destroyed. ---------------------------------------------------------------- In rare instances the detection status of an airgroup changes without updating the individual units. This means a group may not be visible on the group map, but some of it's units may appear in the unit window. This rare occurance should not be confused with units whose actual group icon is many miles away due to wide area patrolling. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Attack ranges against a group tend to indicate the known geographic center of detected units within the target group. This can sometimes lead to differing reports from the Staff Asst. if individual UNITS in the target GROUP are just in or just out of range of attacking groups/units. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Aircraft used to return-to-base (RTB) because of BINGO (low fuel) or Winchester (no ordnance) and ignore incoming threats (missiles, etc). Now attack aircraft will egress the target area at safer speeds and altitudes for longer times, and will not interrupt missile-avoidance logic to stroll home at a leisurely fuel efficient pace. ---------------------------------------------------------------- The computer opponent now uses appropriate types of aircraft to intercept and attack enemy aircraft. (eg. no more Recon Bears trying to intercept Tomcats with their tailgun) ---------------------------------------------------------------- Aircraft ordered to land on an aircraft carrier will set a course toward a rendezvous point. If the aircraft carrier changes course and/or speed so it is not at the rendezvous, the aircraft will appear to land in the water. These aircraft actually land on the carrier, but the display shows this inaccurately. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Several bugs with ordnance allocation (especially submarine-launched cruise missiles) caused deallocated weapons to be deducted from the magazine, even though they weren't fired. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Several bugs in routines handling nuclear weapon damage were fixed. These included value overflows and incorrect damage radii calculations for certain types of target. A bug in which point defense SAMs might hit an incoming SLBM was also fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Aircraft carrier plane counts were not always updated properly. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Some missiles and torpedoes launched inertially will lose track of their activation points and wander in a random direction. These weapons are still armed and dangerous. Most occurances of this have been fixed, but it will still occasionally happen. It probably happens about as often as the real MTBF (mean-time- between-failures) rating on the missiles anyway... ---------------------------------------------------------------- Coordinated Area Anti-Air Defense has been overhauled and rewritten to make it smarter, faster and much more efficient. Ships will contribute to the group's anti-air defense as needed, engaging any free targets and using energy efficient intercepts for better targeting. SAMs are allocated based on perceived threat and kill confidence level against the target. This compensates for other restrictions we placed on SAMs; Director limits, rate-of-fire times, radar line-of-sight, weapon masking, etc.. Note that Anti-Air launches and ROF resets occur *only* every 15 seconds. If a ship does not fire at an incoming SSM, chances are very good that it could not do so, and not that the crew was asleep. See the Release-Notes section up above for more details. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Some SARH and or Command guided SAMs and AAMs were able to engage a target even though the launching platforms' radar was off or destroyed. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Yet another problem in the fuel endurance calculations made some wingtank fuel (10%) unavailable to aircraft. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Certain ordnance guidance modes were not modeled correctly. Notably, Inertial/Mid-Course/Terminal Optical(I/MC/TOPT) guided ordnance (such as Walleye's) were handled wrong. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submarines attempt to put the thermocline between themselves and searching torpedoes. A bug in this code caused them to always change to snorkel depth. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Active sonars were always using the low frequency acoustic propagation tables for calculating sonar ranges, regardless of the actual signal frequency. This resulted in high and medium frequency active sonars having much greater detection range than normal. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Aircraft without a target (assumed to be patrolling) will RTB on BINGO without asking. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Restrictions on the altitude from which aerial dipping sonar can be deployed is now enforced (V-Low or Low only). ---------------------------------------------------------------- The command line arguments defining the drive letter to search for graphic and database files has been fixed. ---------------------------------------------------------------- AAM attack code fixed to make Snap-Down attacks with non-capable missiles less accurate, just like Snap-Up case. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Victory conditions did not trigger properly if only bases were present on winning side. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Base radar circles were always shown as on, regardless of actual emissions. ---------------------------------------------------------------- When loading a saved game with the "Load Game" option in a currently running game, the Group Status window will be displayed on top of the Load Game screen if you double-click on a saved game to load. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Checks have been put in place to prevent you from selecting an enemy unit and using the bearing-only attack key <ALT-B> to access weapon data about the enemy unit. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Plane groups sometimes would begin moving before being totally formed up. Only groups performing Ferry missions now do this. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Some of the flags shown on the Status Screen are improperly placed or overwritten. This still occurs in Version 1.32 ---------------------------------------------------------------- The <ALT-F8> Additional Staff options SAM engagement ranges have changed in meaning slightly for surface units attacking air targets. The 'Optimum' SAM range will attack non-maneuvering (missile) targets whenever their course will place them within the maximum engagement range. This setting will engage incoming aircraft *only* when the aircraft is close enough as to be unable to avoid the SAM by simply turning around for a few moments and stepping out of range. This prevents emptying the magazines against taunting aircraft that dance around just out of reach. The other range settings will engage any aircraft target that crosses into the range specified. Missile defense is always conducted at maximum range. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Submarines now attempt to close to effective torpedo ranges if they are out of range (at stealthy speeds and depths) of a target group and can intercept successfully. ---------------------------------------------------------------- If an attacking platform has both Tomahawk Land-Attack Missiles (TLAM) and Tomahawk Anti-Ship Missiles (TASM) in the same multi-cell launcher, Harpoon will automatically select TASMs instead of TLAMs for allocation against bases if range to the target is less than 250nm. This will temporarily not allow you to select TLAMs due to the Rate-of-Fire restrictions of the launcher. Even if you de-allocate the TASMs, you may not fire the TLAMs at bases until the TASMs are gone. This is only a problem with base attacks using multi-cell launchers having a combined TASM/TLAM loadouts. The most significant instance of this bug occurs when employing an Improved Spruance DDGs in a strike role. ---------------------------------------------------------------- When loading a saved game with the "Load Game" option in a currently running game, the Group status window will be displayed on the load game screen when you double-click on a saved game to load. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Some confusion about the weapon allocation menu exists. The weapon allocation menu shows all the ordnance that you are capable of firing *right now*. There may still be more ammunition in the magazine, but it needs to be reloaded or the mount may need to recycle before it may be used. If you know a PARTICULAR platform has 6 missiles, remember that the allocation menu might only allow you to fire them 2 at a time. ---------------------------------------------------------------- In Harpoon 1.3+, some missiles and torpedoes can initiate search patterns to look for nearby targets. Unfortunately, some ordnance that would normally be capable of this are not setup to do so in earlier Battlesets (GIUK, NACV, MEDC & USNI). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Group formation air patrols will inherit their groups' emission control (EMCON) policy. If you wish to have only one particular unit radiate, you may do so by selecting it in the UNIT window and turning on its' appropriate sensors. Alternatively, you may select "Intermittent" for the GROUPs sensor status, and then allow only a particular formation ring to radiate. This is an effective way to make active AEW patrols without having the remainder of the group radiate (which might reveal their location to enemy ESM). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Passive sonar range rings were updated too infrequently. This only effected the display and sensor report, not the actual detection range of the sonar. ----------------------------------------------------------------