.TH Command MISSION
.NA mission "Assign a mission to a ship/plane/unit"
.LV Basic
-.SY "mission <TYPE> <UNITS> <s|o|d|i|e|r|a|c|q> [<op sector|.>] [<radius>]"
+.SY "mission <TYPE> <UNITS> <s|o|d|i|e|r|a|c|q> <op sector|.> [<radius>]"
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The mission command is used to assign ships, planes, or land units to
missions. The available missions are:
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.L "IMPORTANT NOTES"
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-Missions can occur during updates. (Interdicting ships using "sail"
-or "order").
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Artillery units less than 40% efficient will not fire.
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-Planes flying missions will be intercepted normally. (i.e. if you fly
-over enemy territory, you'll get intercepted. Any mission except air
-missions may also be intercepted by planes on air defense missions)
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-Planes of less than 40% efficiency will not fly missions.
+Planes flying missions other than air defense will be intercepted
+normally. (i.e. if you fly over enemy territory, you'll get
+intercepted.
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-Planes assigned to missions are \*QNOT\*U eligible to intercept
-normally. For example, if a fighter is assigned to an escort or air-defense
+Planes assigned to missions other than air defense are \*QNOT\*U
+eligible to intercept normally. For example, if a fighter is assigned
+to an escort
or interdiction or support mission, it will \*QNOT\*U rise to intercept
an intruding enemy plane. (planes on air-defense missions will intercept
planes flying in their op-area, in accordance with the air-defense mission,
but will not intercept one outside their op-area, even if it is within
their normal range. Be sure you understand this before using plane missions.)
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-Nukes on missiles or planes flying missions DO detonate.
+Planes armed with nukes cannot be assigned missions.
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"marine" missiles will keep launching to interdict ships until all of
the valuable ships in the fleet are sunk. A "valuable" ship is one
For each new missile launched, the most valuable ship according to
(cost to build) * efficiency is targeted.
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-Non-marine missiles will keep firing
-on a sector until 100 damage is done.
+Non-marine missiles will keep launching to interdict land units
+until 20 damage per interdicted land unit is done.
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OPERATIONS SECTORS
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-Some missions require the designation of an 'op sector', short for operations
+Missions require the designation of an 'op sector', short for operations
sector. This is the center of an area that the mission is focused on.
The op sector may be any sector that is within the unit's range.
(Firing range for ships & land units on interdiction, reaction range
ESCORT MISSIONS (planes only)
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When given an escort mission, an escort or intercept capable plane will attempt
-to escort any plane flying a support or interdict mission from the same airport.
+to escort any plane flying a support or interdict mission from the
+same airport into its op-area.
If even 1 plane flies a support or interdiction mission from an airport, all
planes on escort duty at that airport will attempt to escort. Planes with escort
duty will NOT attempt to escort planes taking off from other airports, so it
Only planes with the 'escort' or 'intercept' abilities can fly escort missions.
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AIR DEFENSE MISSIONS (planes only)
-When given an air defense mission, an intercept capable plane will attempt
-to intercept any enemy plane (defined as any plane belonging to a country
-you re at war with) flying into its operations area, irregardless
-of whether the enemy planes are flying over owned sectors. For example, if
-a plane is given an air defense mission with an op area covering some
-owned sectors, some sea, some allied sectors, and some enemy sectors, it
-would try to intercept over any of them.
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-When a plane enters a sector, any planes with air defense missions that are
-at war with the owner of the plane will fly there to fight it.
-The air defense planes
-encounter normal interception along the way (but do \*QNOT\*U trigger
-more air defense missions, but \*QMAY\*U be intercepted normally).
-Once the air defense planes get to the sector,
-they fight the plane. Then, if the owner of the sector
-is hostile to the plane, still more planes may intercept it.
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+Putting a plane on an air defense mission modifies where the plane
+intercepts. Without a mission, it intercepts over own sectors,
+surface ships and land units. With an air defense mission, it
+intercepts over any sector in its op area.
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.L Example
Groonland wants to run a recon flight over Bannannarama. Joeland has a
It takes the shortest path there, and fights the Groonland plane.
Let's say that both take 20 points of damage, and neither aborts.
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-Next, the Groonland plane overflies a Bannannarama sector. The Joeland
-plane flies there, and is intercepted by the Bannannarama plane. Let's
-say that it comes through the fight without being aborted. It then fights
-the Groonland plane. After this combat, if the Groonland plane is not
-aborted, it may be intercepted again by the busy Bannannarama fighter,
-assuming that that plane is still efficient enough, has mob enough, etc.
+Next, the Groonland plane overflies a Bannannarama sector. It gets
+intercepted by Joeland's fighter, because the sector is in its
+op-area, and by Bannannarama's fighter, because the sector belongs to
+Bannannarama. And so forth.
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A good use of this mission is to provide a wider CAP around a carrier,
so that enemy planes get intercepted several times on the way to the
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