Tried the Baltic Encounter from the Russian perspective. I thought I would be beaten easily after having played the USA before and won easily. The enemy launched loads of missiles at me quite quickly - no doubt using the radar of their helicopter that I couldn't get rid of. Sure enough my small boat was destroyed pretty easily due to its lack of long range air defences, and I thought the same would happen to both of the others as each had about ten missiles targeted at them. But then I took control of their defences and targeted the missile groups myself repeatedly. After a few minutes all the enemy missiles had been destroyed, not one getting through.
I then proceeded to launch my own at their ships, once I had them detected using my helicopter. I decided, as I was tracking the enemy ships using my helicopter's active radar, to switch off the missile's active radars to try to avoid detection. But for some reason the increased game speed messed up my control over the game (each missile seemed to really speed up near the end of their path for some reason before I could slow back down to normal speed), and before I had a chance to turn their active radars back on just before they hit the ships, all the missiles had hit and destroyed their ships without a problem, and without any active radar.
So I won easily in the end.
It begs the question if you manage the ships defences yourself why do you do a much better job of shooting down missiles.
Also I wonder how my missiles still managed to hit their ships without any active radar at all - surely this is wrong? I am not even sure you can shut off missile radar mid-route in real life and passively guide them using the radar of another aircraft can you?
And if they can get through the defences so easily this way why don't the AI do it every time rather than using active radar constantly?
Either way I don't think it bodes well for the game AI, actually, if enemy ships are so easy to kill and missiles are so easy to defend against. I will have to try the same mission on hard difficultly now and test again (it was on normal).
I then proceeded to launch my own at their ships, once I had them detected using my helicopter. I decided, as I was tracking the enemy ships using my helicopter's active radar, to switch off the missile's active radars to try to avoid detection. But for some reason the increased game speed messed up my control over the game (each missile seemed to really speed up near the end of their path for some reason before I could slow back down to normal speed), and before I had a chance to turn their active radars back on just before they hit the ships, all the missiles had hit and destroyed their ships without a problem, and without any active radar.
So I won easily in the end.
It begs the question if you manage the ships defences yourself why do you do a much better job of shooting down missiles.
Also I wonder how my missiles still managed to hit their ships without any active radar at all - surely this is wrong? I am not even sure you can shut off missile radar mid-route in real life and passively guide them using the radar of another aircraft can you?
And if they can get through the defences so easily this way why don't the AI do it every time rather than using active radar constantly?
Either way I don't think it bodes well for the game AI, actually, if enemy ships are so easy to kill and missiles are so easy to defend against. I will have to try the same mission on hard difficultly now and test again (it was on normal).
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