Naval Ops: Commander - Escort Ships

Escort Ships

The escort ships bring a new dimension to the game. The player is provided with the option of a small task force of 3 ships. The player/commander can choose which type for they'll to assist them in missions that player is assigned. As technology is researched, more escort vessels and new capacities become available. Also, mission completion of A or S also sometimes rewards escort ship of various types.

The escort ships have wide range of abilities. From basic destroyers to speciality vessels.

Examples are: Electro Magnetic Shield ships, Fuel Tanker ships, Ammunition ships and more. These are available through tech upgrades/achievements and winning "A" or "S" grades per mission. However, the escorts have limited AI. Which can be problematic when they are following the player command ship.

They can be useful for providing fire support when mission requires you to use vessel that may not have defensive or offensive weapons necessary to combat all missions threats. Task Force Example: If using an Aircraft Carrier or Battleship as command ship, your escorts from light destroyer to cruiser can provide anti-submarine support.

Another type of escort are Submarines escorts. These are rare escorts, they extremely effective against other submarines, but they have limited firing arch. They are ideal escorts in missions which are highly prone to sinking the escorts (negative score to player totals) since they are difficult to sink.

The escorts can be arrange in various formations to protect your command ship from being damaged or provide wide range of scanning or even increasing your task forces defensive ranges.

If however, any escort ships are destroyed during the mission, this will be scored against the player when mission tallied and ranked.

Also it should be noted, that once completing survival mode (such as for "A Stage"), the prizes are rewarded with their successful completion. These rewards not available though normal use of the game itself, but the survival mode. An Example prize: "A Stage" reward is a unique escort submarine becomes available to the player in regular game. It is called the Shark, this is a silly version of escort submarine. This will appears to the player only as a Shark's fin and its only weapons are 61 cm Torpedoes.