games-pc harpoon ii User Manual

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Each time you attack a target your Staff will automatically allocate a

number of appropriate weapons unless you do not have Allocate

Weapons selected in the Staff Preferences settings found in the Game

Preferences dialog box under the Settings pull-down menu.   Even

if you have the Staff allocate weapons, you can still manually edit the

allocation by clicking on the various selections in each panel on the
Weapons Allocation box.

With the air threat eliminated, let’s continue on course for Reference

Points 1 & 2.  Leave your radar on.  As we near Reference Point 1 we

should be detecting two surface contacts.  Once there is a surface

detection, go ahead and continue to close on the contacts to make

a visual ID.  In the meantime, evaluate the contacts by selecting each

and clicking on the Report button to determine what type of radar

each one is emitting.  We can see that the first contact is radiating

a Square Tie Surface Search (SS) radar and a Drum Tilt acquisition

radar, both are common to Soviet missile boats.  The second contact

has a generic navigation radar.  Looks like a cargo ship being escorted

by a missile boat.  Let’s take ‘em both out.

Once the first contact is in range of your surface weapons (outer

weapons range circle), go ahead and click on the Attack toolbar

button (make sure the Puller is currently selected).  The mouse cursor

should change to a targeting crosshair.  Either double-click on the first

surface contact or drag-select it.  The Weapons Allocation Window

will appear as it did when we were targeting air targets earlier in this

lesson.  This time the target is a surface contact and the weapons are

surface-to-surface missiles and guns.  Because the Staff Allocation

feature is turned on in the Staff Preferences, a Harpoon missile has

already been allocated for the target.  Go ahead and double-click on

the allocated Harpoon missile to remove it from the allocation list.

Instead, select the Standard Anti-Radiation Missile (ARM) by double-

clicking on it in the Weapons Available list.