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 will be intercepted normally. (i.e. if you fly
40 over enemy territory, you'll get intercepted. Any mission except air
41 missions may also be intercepted by planes on air defense missions)
43 Planes of less than 40% efficiency will not fly missions.
45 Planes assigned to missions are \*QNOT\*U eligible to intercept
46 normally. For example, if a fighter is assigned to an escort or air-defense
47 or interdiction or support mission, it will \*QNOT\*U rise to intercept
48 an intruding enemy plane. (planes on air-defense missions will intercept
49 planes flying in their op-area, in accordance with the air-defense mission,
50 but will not intercept one outside their op-area, even if it is within
51 their normal range. Be sure you understand this before using plane missions.)
53 Nukes on missiles or planes flying missions DO detonate.
55 "marine" missiles will keep launching to interdict ships until all of
56 the valuable ships in the fleet are sunk. A "valuable" ship is one
57 which cost at least $1000 to build or can carry land units or planes.
58 For each new missile launched, the most valuable ship according to
59 (cost to build) * efficiency is targeted.
61 Non-marine missiles will keep firing
62 on a sector until 100 damage is done.
66 Missions require the designation of an 'op sector', short for operations
67 sector. This is the center of an area that the mission is focused on.
68 The op sector may be any sector that is within the unit's range.
69 (Firing range for ships & land units on interdiction, reaction range
70 for land units on reserve, flying
71 range for planes, changeable with range command).
72 The unit will exert influence in a radius around the op sector.
73 By default, the radius will be as large as possible, i.e. the biggest range
74 so that the unit/ship/plane could legally act there.)
75 For example, a ship with a range of 4 could designate any sector up
76 to 4 away from it as it's op sector, and would affect anything within
77 4 of it's op-sector, provided it was also within 4 of the ship.
79 If a smaller radius is desired, it may be specified on
80 the command line. If it is not specified, it will not be prompted for.
82 The area affected by a unit is known as that unit's op-area.
84 If a '.' is given as the op-sector, the op sector will be the location
87 Additionally, if the unit's op-sector is the sector the unit is in, and
88 the unit moves without losing its mission
89 status, the operation sector will move with it. (Normally, of course, the
90 only way for a unit on a mission to move is to be carried on a ship, so
91 this mostly applies to planes on carriers) Thus, a tactical bomber on a ship
92 could have an op-area centered on the carrier that moved with the carrier.
94 Otherwise, if the unit moves without losing its mission status, the
95 op sector will stay where it was designated.
97 For example, suppose that land unit 4 is an artillery unit, range 5,
100 .EX "mission land 4 int ."
102 This would make the unit interdict anything passing within 5 sectors of
105 .EX "mission land 4 int 4,0"
107 This would make the unit interdict anything passing within 5 sectors of
108 4,0, provided it was also within 5 sectors (the unit's range) of 0,0.
110 .EX "mission land 4 int 4,0 2"
112 This would make the unit interdict anything passing within 2 sectors of
113 4,0, provided it was also within 5 sectors (the unit's range) of 0,0.
115 The op-sector/op-range concept allows you to restrict a unit's area of
116 interest to a small, important area, or just let it shoot at anything within
121 When a unit is given a mission, it costs no mobility. When a unit performs
122 its mission, it uses the normal mobility costs that it would use to
123 perform that mission if done by the player.
125 A unit stays on its mission until you cancel it, OR the unit acts. Any type
126 of action not a part of a mission
127 is sufficient, so marching, navigating, transporting, flying, reconing,
128 bombing, mining, paratrooping, being attacked, being
129 paratrooped on, retreating, etc, will all cause a unit to lose its
130 mission status, but the unit could bomb/shell/etc AS PART OF A MISSION, and
131 still retain its mission status.
132 Also, land units with a reserve
133 mission can react to a threatened sector and fight, and (assuming they win)
134 return to their original sector without losing their reserve status.
136 Note that fortifying a unit does not affect it's mission status.
140 The defender's planes will intercept planes flying missions.
141 His ships/forts/units, however, will \*QNOT\*U fire at ships/forts/units
144 INTERDICTION MISSIONS (ships, planes, land units)
146 When giving a unit a interdiction mission, you designate an op sector. From
147 then on, whenever an enemy (defined as something belonging to a nation which
148 you are at war with) moves in a sector in that unit's op-area,
149 the unit will try to shell or bomb it (as appropriate). Almost any kind of
150 movement, except for distribution movement during an update, and the tiny
151 amounts moved by the supply routines is enough.
153 For example, an enemy land unit marching up to the front would be
155 An enemy moving commodities around would have the commodities automatically
156 shelled/bombed. A ship navigating into a sea sector would be shelled or bombed,
157 depending on it's type (obviously, only depth-charge or ASW capable units would
158 affect a submarine, and a submarine would only affect things it could torpedo)
159 In general, units can only affect things they could normally affect. For
160 example, if the enemy was transporting a plane along a highway, and you had an
161 artillery unit and a light bomber interdicting the highway sector, the land
162 unit would fire and the bomber would fly there and bomb, and the total damage
163 would be applied to the plane being transported. If it was still alive, it
164 might be moved to another sector, there to be bombed/shelled again (assuming the
165 new sector was also in both units' op-areas) If a different unit later moved
166 in, it would be shelled/bombed. This happens as long as the interdicting units
169 Damage done is divided amongst all units/ships/commodities moving. For
170 example, if 6 ships were moving, and the interdiction mission did 18 points of
171 damage, each ship would take 3.
173 Note that only ships with sonar and ASW planes can interdict subs. Also, the
174 units may or may not detect the subs, so it's kind of random. The sub also
175 has a chance of escaping the damage, depending on the visibility of the sub.
177 Only planes with the 'tactical' ability can fly interdiction missions.
178 Only planes with 'ASW' ability will fly vs. subs. Planes with 'ASW'
179 ability will not fly interdiction vs. other types of
180 ships/planes/units/commods. Subs have a chance of sneaking through
181 ASW air cover unnoticed, and ASW planes will respond to any
182 non-Friendly sub movement. Depending on the visibility of the sub,
183 the ASW plane may or may not identify the type and/or owner of the
186 Interdiction has no effect on flying planes. Interdiction does not
187 affect loading/unloading. It will also cause some damage to the
188 sector that the commodities were moving into.
190 Note also that forts will fire at enemy ships coming within
191 range. You don't have to set anything for this, it
192 happens automatically. (Forts firing at enemy ships naving happens before
193 ships/planes/units interdicting ships, so if the enemy is using an area a
194 lot, a fort will hurt him without costing you mob from planes)
196 SUPPORT MISSIONS (planes only)
198 A support mission allows your planes to automatically bomb the enemy.
199 Planes with offensive support missions will bomb enemy sectors that you
200 attack. Planes with defensive support missions will bomb enemy troops
201 attacking your sector, adding to your defensive strength. Planes with
202 support orders will do both.
204 When giving a plane a support mission, you designate an op sector. From then on,
205 whenever a sector owned by the plane's owner (or by an ally of the plane-owner,
206 if the ally is also at war with the attacker)
207 in that plane's op-area is
208 attacked, the plane will attempt to fly to that sector and give ground support,
209 if it has support or defensive support orders.
211 If the plane's owner (or an ally of the plane's owner, if the ally is
212 also at war with the country attacked)
213 attacks a sector in that plane's op-area belonging to a
214 country that the plane owner is at war with, the plane will
215 also attempt to fly there and give offensive support if it has
216 support or offensive support orders.
218 (see info attack for more information on how support works in land combat)
220 Only planes with the 'tactical' ability can fly support missions.
222 ESCORT MISSIONS (planes only)
224 When given an escort mission, an escort or intercept capable plane will attempt
225 to escort any plane flying a support or interdict mission from the
226 same airport into its op-area.
227 If even 1 plane flies a support or interdiction mission from an airport, all
228 planes on escort duty at that airport will attempt to escort. Planes with escort
229 duty will NOT attempt to escort planes taking off from other airports, so it
230 pays to put your bombing planes and escorting planes together.
232 Only planes with the 'escort' or 'intercept' abilities can fly escort missions.
234 AIR DEFENSE MISSIONS (planes only)
235 When given an air defense mission, an intercept capable plane will attempt
236 to intercept any enemy plane (defined as any plane belonging to a country
237 you re at war with) flying into its operations area, irregardless
238 of whether the enemy planes are flying over owned sectors. For example, if
239 a plane is given an air defense mission with an op area covering some
240 owned sectors, some sea, some allied sectors, and some enemy sectors, it
241 would try to intercept over any of them.
243 When a plane enters a sector, any planes with air defense missions that are
244 at war with the owner of the plane will fly there to fight it.
245 The air defense planes
246 encounter normal interception along the way (but do \*QNOT\*U trigger
247 more air defense missions, but \*QMAY\*U be intercepted normally).
248 Once the air defense planes get to the sector,
249 they fight the plane. Then, if the owner of the sector
250 is hostile to the plane, still more planes may intercept it.
253 Groonland wants to run a recon flight over Bannannarama. Joeland has a
254 jet fighter with an air defense mission and an op-area covering part of
255 Bannannarama. The 'j' sector belongs to Joeland, and is the base for the
256 fighter. The 'b' sectors belong to Bannannarama, which has 1 fighter
257 in the center sector. The 'g' sector belongs to Groonland. Assume that
258 all countries are mutually at war.
260 The Joeland fighter's op area is centered on the 'B', radius 2.
262 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
263 . . . . . j . . . . . b b . . . .
264 . . . . . . . . . . . b B b . . .
265 . . . . . . . . . . . b b . . . .
266 . . . . . . . . . g . . . . . . .
269 The Groonland player enters a path of 'uujjjbgbggh'.
270 The first sectors entered is sea, and is not in the Joeland
271 aircraft's op-area, so nothing happens.
273 Next, the Groonland plane enters the sector adjacent to Bannannarama.
274 This is within the Joeland aircraft's op-area, so it flies to intercept.
275 It takes the shortest path there, and fights the Groonland plane.
276 Let's say that both take 20 points of damage, and neither aborts.
278 Next, the Groonland plane overflies a Bannannarama sector. The Joeland
279 plane flies there, and is intercepted by the Bannannarama plane. Let's
280 say that it comes through the fight without being aborted. It then fights
281 the Groonland plane. After this combat, if the Groonland plane is not
282 aborted, it may be intercepted again by the busy Bannannarama fighter,
283 assuming that that plane is still efficient enough, has mob enough, etc.
285 A good use of this mission is to provide a wider CAP around a carrier,
286 so that enemy planes get intercepted several times on the way to the
287 carrier, rather than just once, in the carrier's sector.
289 Another use is to provide air-cover for an ally who has temporarily
292 RESERVE MISSIONS (land units only)
294 A land unit on a reserve mission may react to enemy attacks within its
295 op-area. See info \*QAttacking\*U for more on land unit reactions.
297 Note that units with a reserve mission retain this status even when they
298 react to a threatened sector and return. This is an exception to the normal
299 rules on losing your mission status. If, however, the land unit is forced to
300 retreat from the combat (see land combat for details), it DOES lose its status.
302 Note: information gained from planes flying missions is automatically
305 .SA "Ship-types, Plane-types, Unit-types, attack, bomb, Ships, Planes, LandUnits"
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