The "Uber" Command: Modern Air/Naval Ops Thread

[Kushan]

v1.09 Release Candidate 3 is now available (B737).

Along with a huge list of db additions this build includes:

* New map feature: Day & Night lighting of the Earth (ON by default). It can be enabled/disabled through the "View" menu and is persisted per-side as part of the map view options.

* FIXED: Out-of-memory error causes "red X of doom" on main map <---- NEED CONFIRMATION ON THIS!

* Includes updated & rebuilt versions of the included 40 standalone scenarios and 6 tutorials.

* Includes the v440 versions of the DB3000 and CWDB databases.

[Pinetree]

I hope they upgrade the coastlines at some stage. NZ still doesn't have it's two most important harbours available as they're considered land in the game. One of them (Waitemata harbour in Auckland) contains NZ's one major Naval base. Makes it a bit hard to set up an accurate representation. :D

[RyanE]

That is only aesthetics.  It has no impact on the simulation itself.  There is no benefit for having a harbor, at least to moving around.

[Kushan]

Stream is now live!. Will be playing Operation Vantage, 1961 today.

[Kushan]

Streaming tomorrow, 11am PST/18:00 GMT. Will be continuing work on my next US/UK vs EU North Sea scenario. Also have an exciting announcement about next weeks stream.

[Dimitris]

Miguel Molina has posted a new revision of the community scenario pack, the compendium of Command scenarios crafted by the user community. The new release contains ten brand-new scenarios:     

Attack Sub Duel Off Hokkaido, 2003: This scenario assumes that tensions have increased between Japan and Russia.  Japanese Coast Guard vessels have fired on Russian fishing boats that have strayed into Japanese territorial waters.  Russia has threatened to attack Japanese shipping in retaliation. The submarine Harushio has been ordered to support a surface group transiting to Nagasaki. Russian attacks are highly likely.    

First Battle of Donetsk Airport, 2014: On May 16, 2014 the Ukrainian government started an anti-terrorist operation against pro-Russian insurgents in the Donetsk Oblast in early April 2014. Pro-Russian protesters and insurgents affiliated with the DPR captured and occupied numerous government buildings, towns, and territories in the region. In Donetsk city itself, many government buildings were under separatist control. During the morning of May 26, pro-Russian insurgents captured the terminal buildings of Donetsk International Airport, and demanded the withdrawal of government forces from the area. Soon after, Ukraine issued an ultimatum to the insurgents, demanding they surrender immediately. This was rejected, causing paratroopers to launch an assault on the airport, accompanied by airstrikes against insurgent positions.    

Here, There And Everywhere, 1965:  On July 24, 1965 an F-4C flying CAP over North Vietnam was shot down by a Russian-supplied SA-2 missile. This was the first attack by SAMs on US aircraft and the shootdown took Washington by surprise. A reprisal raid was decided. On July 27 a large raid of F-105s was launched against the sites and nearby barracks where the SAM crews were living. The costliest yet day of the Vietnam air war was about to unroll.    

Northern Fury #9.1 - Eisenhower Moves North, 1994: Entering the sixth day of WW3, the situation in the North Atlantic remains desperate.  The rapid capture of North Norway and Iceland have allowed the Soviets to surge almost 100 submarines into the Atlantic.  The Enterprise CVBG spent two difficult days blunting an attempt by the Red Banner Northern Fleet to interdict the sea lanes, she is now retiring, as are the major Soviet surface units, to replenish. Now, as Enterprise steams south, the USS Eisenhower, after three days of hard fighting in the Mediterranean, has passed through the pillars of Hercules and is heading north. She and the Carl Vinson CVBG will strike at Soviet forces around Iceland three days from now.    

Northern Fury #3 - Dagger To The Heart, 1994: A quiet Sunday morning in New York Harbour, it's cold and windy and the main topic of conversation at the Sandy Hook, New Jersey Coast Guard Station is the ongoing fiasco at the Olympics...    

Scenario Editor Tutorial - Adding Weapons, 2015: Unlike other Command scenarios, this is intended to be played in scenario-editor mode. In this scenario, the player will add aircraft to an airfield, arm the aircraft, and then shoot down an easy target.    

Uncle Mark's Tutorials #4 - Boston Guards the Denmark Strait, 1985: Hostilities have broken out in Europe.  The war is only a few days old, but there has been limited use of chemical and tactical nuclear weapons, and American vessels have been cleared to use nuclear depth charges against enemy submarines. You are in command of the American nuclear attack submarine Boston.  You have been assigned to patrol the Denmark Strait, which lies between Iceland and Greenland.  Controlling the Denmark Strait would be vital in any conflict between NATO and the Soviet Union (or, today, Russia) as it connects the Norwegian Sea with the rest of the Atlantic Ocean.    

Uncle Mark's Tutorials #5 - Motozintla Incursion, 2015: Existing tensions between Mexico and Guatemala have increased in recent months.  Matters came to a head when Mexican forces fired on a Guatemalan fishing boat that had strayed into Mexico's territorial waters.  Accounts of the attack vary, but it appears that the fishing boat had initially refused to surrender to Mexican forces and had attempted to flee back into international waters. However, many believe the level of force used by Mexico was excessive. With Mexico's military already spread thin trying to keep the drug cartels under control, there is concern that Guatemala will launch some kind of punitive expedition. This scenario is designed to give players practice with air power vs. ground forces situations, on a low-intensity conflict.    

Waller Takes Charge, 1955: Hostilities erupted between NATO and the Soviet Union in 1955.  The war is less than one day old, and both sides have taken terrific losses in the Mediterranean. It falls to the American destroyer Waller and forces attached to her to seize control of the waters south of Crete.    

War of the Thirty-Fives, 2021: The Kurds have finally secured independence, and a windfall of now-rising oil prices and the investment opportunities that have come with formal recognition have allowed their (not entirely unjustifiably) paranoid leaders to embark on the kind of military overbuildup that has not been seen for a while. Among this buildup is a new air force, built from the ground up. With Western purchases coming with far too many strings attached, they have obtained a massive number of the most advanced Fulcrum variant, the MiG-35. Unfortunately, the Kurdish political problem has continued in Turkey, with emboldened Kurdish fighters in that country's east increasingly using their neighbor as a sanctuary. Clashes are an unfortunate routine. Now Ankara seeks to break the stalemate by using their finally-ready fifth generation stealth F-35s. But stealth or not, superior technology or not, the Kurdish government is prepared to defend its territorial integrity.... 


Some of the above scenarios use the most recent version (v440) of the Command databases, which are included with the v1.09 RC11 (B746) update. We therefore recommend downloading and applying this update before using the new scenarios. Alternatively, players can hold for the official release of the v1.09 update which is approaching fast.

As always, the community scenario pack is available for download at the WarfareSims download section: http://www.warfaresims.com/?page_id=1876

[Kushan]

Tomorrow I'll be streaming Northern Inferno at 11am PST/18:00 GMT @ Twitch.tv/Kushan04. Please be aware it is a beta version so some bugs might be present.

[Dimitris]

Northern Inferno is coming on October 22nd! - http://store.steampowered.com//app/397180

[Dimitris]

The scenarios of Northern Inferno: http://www.warfaresims.com/?p=4000

[Dimitris]

Northern Inferno launch offer: Get CMANO 25% off until October 29!!!

[Rayfer]

The scenarios of Northern Inferno: http://www.warfaresims.com/?p=4000

The Matrix site says there are 6 introductory tutorials...are they new or the same that came with the original game release? I was hoping for new...!

[Dimitris]

It's actually seven. Three of them are the original tutorials, three more from the Uncle Mark collection, plus a dedicated A2A-refueling tutorial by Tomcat84.

[Tinkershuffle]

Should I grab this now or wait for possible Christmas -33/50% sales? I thought I'll skip CMANO for good but reading Clancy's Red Storm Rising changed my mind. :)

[Kushan]

Should I grab this now or wait for possible Christmas -33/50% sales? I thought I'll skip CMANO for good but reading Clancy's Red Storm Rising changed my mind. :)

I'm more then a bit biased but IMO Command is the best wargame to come out in the last few years.

If your looking to dip your toe in before buying the full game, I highly recommend picking up Northern Inferno first. You wont be able to use features like the editor or play the massive amount of scenarios that have been released by the community. But it would let you play the awesome scenarios the it has and get a feel for the game and whether the full game is for you.

[Grim.Reaper]

Some day I will have to wrap my head around this game....all the scenarios sound great and should be the type of game I like, but I just end up staring at the screen:(

My brain is just not advanced enough to "get" how to play it correctly....