Solved PATROL mission type
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I have encountered this mission type and it seems weird.
The BMS User Manual doesn’t mention it on page 184 under “List of Mission types and their success factors”. In the briefing section is says PKG-MISSION: Search for enemy naval assets" and … we would like to disrupt or destroy as many enemy forces…. The odd thing is that it always gets created with an Air-to-Air loadout and a Low-Altitude camera.
The mission type gets relatively regularly fragged in the Joint Guard campaign, 22nd FS in Gioia del Colle airbase, but I have also seen it in Balance of Power. This was in the Balkans Theater for BMS 4.36.
Is this mission type a bug or is it meant to be this way? Is it just a RECCE/BDA mission, but named differently?
Image of the briefing:
https://ibb.co/g3ShxCSImage of the loadout:
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It is a RECCE PATROL. See pg. 186.
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RECCE PATROL: Same as Recce but with two target steerpoints and no specific targets to recon. Mainly
used for choppers (which are not flyable by humans).Thanks.
It still seems kinda weird, mainly because the briefing uses the words “disrupt” and “destroy”, but one isn’t given the tools to do so. I know one can manually change the weapons, but people might be confused by the default load-out and its implications. The description for the mission type says “recon”, so perhaps the Situation section in the briefing could be updated to reflect that?
I know this is all nitpicking, but I thought it might improve the game more to report these kinds of things. Especially since it started popping out in the 4.36 version and I have never seen it in 4.35 Balkans. I don’t know if this applies to the default Korea theater in 4.36, I haven’t played that one yet, but I might try.
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Hi, I was wrong.
Patrol = Recce Patrol, but for Naval Assets.
So, your job is photograph, not destroy. Don’t confuse a Situation Report (…“disrupt” and “destroy”…) with your flights / packages task! The message is: In order to be able to destroy something we first have to do some recon.
For the missions:
Recce = Recon / photograph a tgt building
Recce Patrol = Recon / photograph ground units in tgt area
Patrol = Same as Recce Patrol, but for naval units in tgt area.
Hope, this answers your question.
I will add the description to the User Manual.
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Thanks, that’s an acceptable solution
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hmm, yeah, got few of this missions on rooster, . its kinda old-school , but what the heck, relic from 4.0 …,
Today in days of awacs and P-3/8’s … and TGP’s … bah. - … just an idea for 4.37 hehehe. Link - LA camera to tgp so we don’t have to enter sam envelope of … dunno, cruiser with san-6 or similar stuff … just an idea. -
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