r/SeaPower_NCMA

I just stared playing the game this week and just finished the ASW tutorial mission where it tasks you to find a soviet submarine with a P-3 at the end of the tutorial. I spend awhile dropping sonobuoys around the 10nm estimated location but I had no luck until I lowered altitude and used the MAD and detected the submarine very quickly despite the P-3 being further away from the submarine than a sonobuoy I dropped earlier (that was still functional). The submarine was at periscope depth for reference.

So, in your experiences, have you found that the MAD or sonobuoys are better at finding subs?

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I see that they are available but I do not see where I assign them.

https://reddit.com/link/1uo69c9/video/6clhg0bhrfbh1/player

Can somebody explain to me, why the map icons are just jumping around all over the place? It is impossible to know where exactly an enemy ship is located. The "Don"-Tender for example is north of the small red circle in the beginning and in the next few seconds it is somehow supposed to be 20 - 30km south.

Really enjoying the new campaign and task force mode. This one seems unfairly difficult, however, and I'm wondering if it is bugged or it's really meant to be this way.

I added two new ships to my task force before the battle as well as some aircraft. The new ships spawn in a separate task force, closer to the enemy. The enemy forces immediately launch a helicopter (or it's in the air at mission start), which picks up my ships on surface radar right away, and right away the Kirov is firing missiles my way. There's no friendly air assets anywhere in range to shoot down the helicopter in time to avoid detection. The Kirov is about 100 miles away from my newer ships - close enough for it to fire, but not for me to fire back. In any case, my two new ships can't take the combined ASM strikes from the Soviet SAG.

I'm wondering if I'm just missing something, or if I was supposed to put all my points into aircraft (my task force is just two ships from the start of the game - a Belknap and a Kidd).

Thanks.

This new campaign is amazing. This game has been out long enough now and with enough free updates I would gladly pay for a dlc campaign :)

https://preview.redd.it/zxznd3q7pcbh1.png?width=1249&format=png&auto=webp&s=074935076973f2b9015779a0d9b41454ad88aae2

https://preview.redd.it/9qe9w75cpcbh1.png?width=867&format=png&auto=webp&s=841aa3b30e770fa6adde3f33bc25058bbe62ef6c

Wake-homing torpedoes are like a T-Rex except underwater, moving at 45kts, and enough power to destroy a carrier. Needless to say, a tense moment in my campaign lol

just wondering what people are picking for their first task force

I was playing the 4th mission of the new campaign >!the one where you control a submarine and have to sink a tender!<, and in the middle of it, my game froze and crashed. Luckily I had taken a save about 15 minutes earlier when I did a risky Harpoon launch against a Soviet ship, so I tried reloading the save but I kept getting an error saying it doesn't have a campaign to associate the save file with. That's several hours of progress gone, I'm gonna have to start the campaign from the beginning again. Maybe try only saving in between missions until they fix whatever is going on with this