Will the tutorial involve chasing pirates off somalia?

[Destraex]

I was watching a documentary the other night about the dangers to merchant shippin off somalia.
I all of a sudden had visions on playing this game's tutorial as a naval frigate captain trying to protect shipping....

I know they use tiny vessels so it would probably not make a good sensor tutorial!

 

[unmerged(255172)]

Yes, that would be a good tutorial. The game map, however, does not include the horn of Africa. So the tutorial will have to be in the North Atlantic region.

But who knows. Maybe Newfoundland fishermen could take up piracy to add to their income?

 

[Destraex]

AHA!!! Those troublesome newfoundland fishermen!! I think two CV and one BB will cover that nicely!

 

[unmerged(382045)]

Or maybe the Russian mafia.
They did it once back in 2009, so it's not at all far fetched.

 

[HundredHander]

Enforcement of fishing quotas could be a more serious way to teach some of the interface?

 

[unmerged(304178)]

AHA!!! Those troublesome newfoundland fishermen!! I think two CV and one BB will cover that nicely!

hate to burst your bubble but navies dont use bbs anymore.

 

[unmerged(255172)]

More seriously: We're thinking search & rescue is a good introduction to movement, aircraft and sensors. This is something navies do a lot, after all.

However, weapons are such an important part of the game that actual combat will be introduced in the tutorials. We'll go with calling it an exercise (and the explosions and stuff are just pyrotechnics borrowed from Hollywood of course).

 

[unmerged(361876)]

More seriously: We're thinking search & rescue is a good introduction to movement, aircraft and sensors. This is something navies do a lot, after all.

However, weapons are such an important part of the game that actual combat will be introduced in the tutorials. We'll go with calling it an exercise (and the explosions and stuff are just pyrotechnics borrowed from Hollywood of course).

Newfoundland fishermen could not be far off, you could mirror something from the Turbot War, where you have naval vessels vs. foreign fishery fleets.

 

[Caban]

I have an idea... a Japanese WW2 carrier group wandered into a SPACE HURRICANE and was teleported forward 70 years into the Arctic Circle. Unfortunately, they do not realize the war is over.

Sorta like The Final Countdown

 

[Destraex]

hate to burst your bubble but navies dont use bbs anymore.

Don't worry I was being facetious. BB and CV being the biggest that could ever be sent against the poor fishermen.

 

[unmerged(433172)]

More seriously: We're thinking search & rescue is a good introduction to movement, aircraft and sensors. This is something navies do a lot, after all.

However, weapons are such an important part of the game that actual combat will be introduced in the tutorials. We'll go with calling it an exercise (and the explosions and stuff are just pyrotechnics borrowed from Hollywood of course).

Hello JanH,

Just an idea: there should be three phases in the tutorial, like you said, a search and rescue operation would really put us "into the bath" so to speak, like if an oil-rig in the Baltic Sea fell victim to a huge storm and S&R Ops would only be launched 48hrs later due to rough seas. All the life-rafts would have scattered, etc. and it would introduce us on how to use helicopters and search crafts; the second phase would be a naval exercise focusing on anti-submarine warfare off the coast of Iceland, similar to recent ASW wargames involving Sweden's Gotland-class needing to "take a snap" of a US aircraft carrier within her own carrier battle group; the third phase would focus on anti-aircraft warfare South of the Svalbard Islands where a dozen Norwegian aircrafts simulating a take-off from Spitzbergen would engage an airborne early warning (AEW) capable task force comprised of 1 light G-M cruiser, 2 destroyers and 2 frigates.

How does that sound?

 

[unmerged(255172)]

Sounds quite similar to what we're actually doing, krazyfrenchman

We've already written the stories, including tutorials, but it's still nice to see everybody's ideas.

 

[unmerged(382045)]

Hello JanH,

Just an idea: there should be three phases in the tutorial, like you said, a search and rescue operation would really put us "into the bath" so to speak, like if an oil-rig in the Baltic Sea fell victim to a huge storm and S&R Ops would only be launched 48hrs later due to rough seas. All the life-rafts would have scattered, etc. and it would introduce us on how to use helicopters and search crafts;

Wouldn't be much point in that. After 48h in a North Atlantic storm they'd all be dead.

 

[unmerged(433172)]

Wouldn't be much point in that. After 48h in a North Atlantic storm they'd all be dead.

I never said that it would be in the North Atlantic Ocean though (is the North Sea or the Baltic Sea in the NAO???)

I beg to differ about their survivability; I read that if an evacuating crew reaches, launches and boards in the liferafts correctly (respecting crew capacity, of course), especially if they had been trained, etc., they can survive for 90 continuous hours in stormy winter sea conditions before being rescued.

 

[Tjena Med Laxen]

I never said that it would be in the North Atlantic Ocean though (is the North Sea or the Baltic Sea in the NAO???)

We don't have any oilrigs in the Baltic though, but you could have some sort of ferry catastrophe (Estonia) or something.

 

[unmerged(433172)]

We don't have any oilrigs in the Baltic though, but you could have some sort of ferry catastrophe (Estonia) or something.

You are right, there are not a great many in the Baltic Sea. I read that as we speak there are four oil rigs though: here is one Petrobaltic "Baltic Beta".

Let me quote from a document that I found on the net:

There are four oil platforms in the Baltic Sea, all of them located in the south-eastern part of the region in the oil fields of Kravtsovskoye and B-3. Three of the platforms, Baltic Beta, Petro Baltic and PG-1, are Polish, and one, MLSP D-6, is Russian. The reserves in Kravtsovskoye and B-3 are estimated to last until 2030 or longer.

Future trends
Interest in oil exploration in the Baltic Sea is growing, and drilling has shown there is more oil to extract. The seabed southeast of Gotland, 50 km from the Polish oil platforms, is estimated to hold several hundred million barrels of oil. The Swedish oil company, Opab, applied for permission to drill but was denied in 2009 by the Swedish government due to environmental deference. However, Opab has declared that the company may apply for permission to drill in the Latvian or Lithuanian part of the same oil field. As the development of oil and gas exploration is a highly political issue, there is a lot of uncertainty in the future of the business.

However, a MS Estonia rescue would be very interesting as well...

 

[Tjena Med Laxen]

Well in that case.. ^^ I was totally unaware that we had oil in the Baltic though. Good lord my government is incompetent, enviromental defense, seriously?