2 .NA mission "Assign a mission to a ship/plane/unit"
4 .SY "mission <TYPE> <UNITS> <s|o|d|i|e|r|a|c|q> <op sector|.> [<radius>]"
6 The mission command is used to assign ships, planes, or land units to
7 missions. The available missions are:
9 Mission Ships Land-Units Planes
10 i interdiction yes yes only "tactical"
11 s support no no only "tactical"
12 o off support no no only "tactical"
13 d def support no no only "tactical"
15 e escort no no only "intercept" or "escort"
16 a air defense no no only "intercept"
18 You may also use 'q' (query) to check on
19 the mission of something, or 'c' (clear) to wipe the mission of a land
24 Missions are things that your planes/land units/ships can do automatically, such
25 as bombing/shelling. You assign a unit to a mission, and whenever the right
26 conditions occur, the unit attempts to perform its mission. Note that missions
27 don't allow a unit to do anything it normally could not do, they simply allow
28 them to do it in an automatic fashion. In some cases, units performing missions
29 might not be as 'smart' as they would be if you were operating them personally.
30 That's the price you pay for having automatic defenses.
34 Missions can occur during updates. (Interdicting ships using "sail"
37 Artillery units less than 40% efficient will not fire.
39 Planes flying missions other than air defense will be intercepted
40 normally. (i.e. if you fly over enemy territory, you'll get
43 Planes assigned to missions other than air defense are \*QNOT\*U
44 eligible to intercept normally. For example, if a fighter is assigned
46 or interdiction or support mission, it will \*QNOT\*U rise to intercept
47 an intruding enemy plane. (planes on air-defense missions will intercept
48 planes flying in their op-area, in accordance with the air-defense mission,
49 but will not intercept one outside their op-area, even if it is within
50 their normal range. Be sure you understand this before using plane missions.)
52 Nukes on missiles or planes flying missions DO detonate.
54 "marine" missiles will keep launching to interdict ships until all of
55 the valuable ships in the fleet are sunk. A "valuable" ship is one
56 which cost at least $1000 to build or can carry land units or planes.
57 For each new missile launched, the most valuable ship according to
58 (cost to build) * efficiency is targeted.
60 Non-marine missiles will keep firing
61 on a sector until 100 damage is done.
65 Missions require the designation of an 'op sector', short for operations
66 sector. This is the center of an area that the mission is focused on.
67 The op sector may be any sector that is within the unit's range.
68 (Firing range for ships & land units on interdiction, reaction range
69 for land units on reserve, flying
70 range for planes, changeable with range command).
71 The unit will exert influence in a radius around the op sector.
72 By default, the radius will be as large as possible, i.e. the biggest range
73 so that the unit/ship/plane could legally act there.)
74 For example, a ship with a range of 4 could designate any sector up
75 to 4 away from it as it's op sector, and would affect anything within
76 4 of it's op-sector, provided it was also within 4 of the ship.
78 If a smaller radius is desired, it may be specified on
79 the command line. If it is not specified, it will not be prompted for.
81 The area affected by a unit is known as that unit's op-area.
83 If a '.' is given as the op-sector, the op sector will be the location
86 Additionally, if the unit's op-sector is the sector the unit is in, and
87 the unit moves without losing its mission
88 status, the operation sector will move with it. (Normally, of course, the
89 only way for a unit on a mission to move is to be carried on a ship, so
90 this mostly applies to planes on carriers) Thus, a tactical bomber on a ship
91 could have an op-area centered on the carrier that moved with the carrier.
93 Otherwise, if the unit moves without losing its mission status, the
94 op sector will stay where it was designated.
96 For example, suppose that land unit 4 is an artillery unit, range 5,
99 .EX "mission land 4 int ."
101 This would make the unit interdict anything passing within 5 sectors of
104 .EX "mission land 4 int 4,0"
106 This would make the unit interdict anything passing within 5 sectors of
107 4,0, provided it was also within 5 sectors (the unit's range) of 0,0.
109 .EX "mission land 4 int 4,0 2"
111 This would make the unit interdict anything passing within 2 sectors of
112 4,0, provided it was also within 5 sectors (the unit's range) of 0,0.
114 The op-sector/op-range concept allows you to restrict a unit's area of
115 interest to a small, important area, or just let it shoot at anything within
120 When a unit is given a mission, it costs no mobility. When a unit performs
121 its mission, it uses the normal mobility costs that it would use to
122 perform that mission if done by the player.
124 A unit stays on its mission until you cancel it, OR the unit acts. Any type
125 of action not a part of a mission
126 is sufficient, so marching, navigating, transporting, flying, reconing,
127 bombing, mining, paratrooping, being attacked, being
128 paratrooped on, retreating, etc, will all cause a unit to lose its
129 mission status, but the unit could bomb/shell/etc AS PART OF A MISSION, and
130 still retain its mission status.
131 Also, land units with a reserve
132 mission can react to a threatened sector and fight, and (assuming they win)
133 return to their original sector without losing their reserve status.
135 Note that fortifying a unit does not affect it's mission status.
139 The defender's planes will intercept planes flying missions.
140 His ships/forts/units, however, will \*QNOT\*U fire at ships/forts/units
143 INTERDICTION MISSIONS (ships, planes, land units)
145 When giving a unit a interdiction mission, you designate an op sector. From
146 then on, whenever an enemy (defined as something belonging to a nation which
147 you are at war with) moves in a sector in that unit's op-area,
148 the unit will try to shell or bomb it (as appropriate). Almost any kind of
149 movement, except for distribution movement during an update, and the tiny
150 amounts moved by the supply routines is enough.
152 For example, an enemy land unit marching up to the front would be
154 An enemy moving commodities around would have the commodities automatically
155 shelled/bombed. A ship navigating into a sea sector would be shelled or bombed,
156 depending on it's type (obviously, only depth-charge or ASW capable units would
157 affect a submarine, and a submarine would only affect things it could torpedo)
158 In general, units can only affect things they could normally affect. For
159 example, if the enemy was transporting a plane along a highway, and you had an
160 artillery unit and a light bomber interdicting the highway sector, the land
161 unit would fire and the bomber would fly there and bomb, and the total damage
162 would be applied to the plane being transported. If it was still alive, it
163 might be moved to another sector, there to be bombed/shelled again (assuming the
164 new sector was also in both units' op-areas) If a different unit later moved
165 in, it would be shelled/bombed. This happens as long as the interdicting units
168 Damage done is divided amongst all units/ships/commodities moving. For
169 example, if 6 ships were moving, and the interdiction mission did 18 points of
170 damage, each ship would take 3.
172 Note that only ships with sonar and ASW planes can interdict subs. Also, the
173 units may or may not detect the subs, so it's kind of random. The sub also
174 has a chance of escaping the damage, depending on the visibility of the sub.
176 Only planes with the 'tactical' ability can fly interdiction missions.
177 Only planes with 'ASW' ability will fly vs. subs. Planes with 'ASW'
178 ability will not fly interdiction vs. other types of
179 ships/planes/units/commods. Subs have a chance of sneaking through
180 ASW air cover unnoticed, and ASW planes will respond to any
181 non-Friendly sub movement. Depending on the visibility of the sub,
182 the ASW plane may or may not identify the type and/or owner of the
185 Interdiction has no effect on flying planes. Interdiction does not
186 affect loading/unloading. It will also cause some damage to the
187 sector that the commodities were moving into.
189 Note also that forts will fire at enemy ships coming within
190 range. You don't have to set anything for this, it
191 happens automatically. (Forts firing at enemy ships naving happens before
192 ships/planes/units interdicting ships, so if the enemy is using an area a
193 lot, a fort will hurt him without costing you mob from planes)
195 SUPPORT MISSIONS (planes only)
197 A support mission allows your planes to automatically bomb the enemy.
198 Planes with offensive support missions will bomb enemy sectors that you
199 attack. Planes with defensive support missions will bomb enemy troops
200 attacking your sector, adding to your defensive strength. Planes with
201 support orders will do both.
203 When giving a plane a support mission, you designate an op sector. From then on,
204 whenever a sector owned by the plane's owner (or by an ally of the plane-owner,
205 if the ally is also at war with the attacker)
206 in that plane's op-area is
207 attacked, the plane will attempt to fly to that sector and give ground support,
208 if it has support or defensive support orders.
210 If the plane's owner (or an ally of the plane's owner, if the ally is
211 also at war with the country attacked)
212 attacks a sector in that plane's op-area belonging to a
213 country that the plane owner is at war with, the plane will
214 also attempt to fly there and give offensive support if it has
215 support or offensive support orders.
217 (see info attack for more information on how support works in land combat)
219 Only planes with the 'tactical' ability can fly support missions.
221 ESCORT MISSIONS (planes only)
223 When given an escort mission, an escort or intercept capable plane will attempt
224 to escort any plane flying a support or interdict mission from the
225 same airport into its op-area.
226 If even 1 plane flies a support or interdiction mission from an airport, all
227 planes on escort duty at that airport will attempt to escort. Planes with escort
228 duty will NOT attempt to escort planes taking off from other airports, so it
229 pays to put your bombing planes and escorting planes together.
231 Only planes with the 'escort' or 'intercept' abilities can fly escort missions.
233 AIR DEFENSE MISSIONS (planes only)
235 Putting a plane on an air defense mission modifies where the plane
236 intercepts. Without a mission, it intercepts over own sectors,
237 surface ships and land units. With an air defense mission, it
238 intercepts over any sector in its op area.
241 Groonland wants to run a recon flight over Bannannarama. Joeland has a
242 jet fighter with an air defense mission and an op-area covering part of
243 Bannannarama. The 'j' sector belongs to Joeland, and is the base for the
244 fighter. The 'b' sectors belong to Bannannarama, which has 1 fighter
245 in the center sector. The 'g' sector belongs to Groonland. Assume that
246 all countries are mutually at war.
248 The Joeland fighter's op area is centered on the 'B', radius 2.
250 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
251 . . . . . j . . . . . b b . . . .
252 . . . . . . . . . . . b B b . . .
253 . . . . . . . . . . . b b . . . .
254 . . . . . . . . . g . . . . . . .
257 The Groonland player enters a path of 'uujjjbgbggh'.
258 The first sectors entered is sea, and is not in the Joeland
259 aircraft's op-area, so nothing happens.
261 Next, the Groonland plane enters the sector adjacent to Bannannarama.
262 This is within the Joeland aircraft's op-area, so it flies to intercept.
263 It takes the shortest path there, and fights the Groonland plane.
264 Let's say that both take 20 points of damage, and neither aborts.
266 Next, the Groonland plane overflies a Bannannarama sector. It gets
267 intercepted by Joeland's fighter, because the sector is in its
268 op-area, and by Bannannarama's fighter, because the sector belongs to
269 Bannannarama. And so forth.
271 A good use of this mission is to provide a wider CAP around a carrier,
272 so that enemy planes get intercepted several times on the way to the
273 carrier, rather than just once, in the carrier's sector.
275 Another use is to provide air-cover for an ally who has temporarily
278 RESERVE MISSIONS (land units only)
280 A land unit on a reserve mission may react to enemy attacks within its
281 op-area. See info \*QAttacking\*U for more on land unit reactions.
283 Note that units with a reserve mission retain this status even when they
284 react to a threatened sector and return. This is an exception to the normal
285 rules on losing your mission status. If, however, the land unit is forced to
286 retreat from the combat (see land combat for details), it DOES lose its status.
288 Note: information gained from planes flying missions is automatically
291 .SA "Ship-types, Plane-types, Unit-types, attack, bomb, Ships, Planes, LandUnits"
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