Picked this up, blitzed through the tutorials, picked the Kirov mission after listening to @Tyco bash his head against it.
Load two Mk-48s, a MOSS and a Harpoon. Immediately give away my position because years of Arma have engrained Q = Up, Z = Down in my head, and trying to come to periscope depth has instead caused cavitation. Immediately fire a MOSS off towards the suspected SAG and crash dive to prevent further cavitation and build speed for the inevitable Silex.
Inevitable Silex and his friend come about thirty seconds later, bracketing me. Drop a noise maker in the water and attempt to generate a knuckle, but don’t really have the time. Manage to get one torp diving down low then immediately power into a flank speed full everything left corkscrew ascent over top of it. Another noise maker, and then I reverse course as it begins to follow it’s re-acquisition algorithm. The other is far enough off that the noisemaker thoroughly confuses it. Make a clean break when another two torpedoes bracket my further position. One establishes intermittent contact, but not quite enough to keep it up, the other is well outside acq distance. Now there is fairly persistent depth charging in the area I was initially spotted.
Frustrated, I bring us back to the surface, and fire my Harpoon in a wide search pattern back at the SAG, just to let them know their ASW sucks and I’m mad, then drop it back down “deep” (the floor is 600 feet here), to get out ahead of the return fire. Another pair of torpedoes, one persistently latches on, but radical maneuvering and a pair of noise makers ultimately dissuade it.
I extend from the SAG, wary of the still active, still searching torps. Once they begin self destructing, I reverse my course, and begin creeping back north, careful to allow my towed array to begin it’s TMA. I identify two of the four ship present, one is an Udaloy that is tantalizingly close, and the other is the Kirov, further afield. As I creep in, a cheeky bit of periscope reveals my Harpoon found something, and that there is a Bear-F aggressively searching for me. I continue to press, my plan is to give the Udaloy three Mk-48s (I reloaded the harpoon with one), then break west to flank around and kill the Kirov.
As I approach what I’d consider favorable firing position, I see the Bear swooping down low near, but not on my course track. Hoping to evade him just a little while longer, I hit the key for silent running. Only I don’t, I actually hit the key for emergency blow. 800 yards from a bear, and 1000 yards from an Udaloy.
That’s enough Cold Waters for the night.
