Command: Modern Operations Command:MO - The Silent Service

Command: Modern Operations Command:MO - The Silent Service is a DLC for Command: Modern Operations about submarine operations from the Korean War to the present. Across 18 standalone scenarios, you command submarines from Eastern and Western classes in peacetime, during crises and in all-out war. The scenarios can be played in ascending difficulty or chronological order, and each has an era-authentic mission briefing.

Submarine warfare

The scenarios trace how submarine capabilities and operations have changed with technologies such as the snorkel, nuclear power, cruise and ballistic missiles, silencing measures, advanced sonars, computers and torpedoes. They also cover how surface and airborne submarine hunters have improved their equipment and tactics in response.

Submarines can lay minefields, attack defended land targets with cruise missiles, photograph surface ships from close range and collect sensitive electronic emissions. They can escort merchant ships covertly, launch ballistic missiles with multiple nuclear warheads, tap undersea communications cables, deliver special-operations teams ashore and deploy swimmer delivery vehicles against capital ships. You can also hunt vessels above and below the surface, from patrol boats to battleships, supercarriers and strategic missile submarines, using torpedoes, missiles and other means.

Submarine classes

You take command of well-known submarines and classes as well as less familiar vessels. These include USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, and the Soviet November-class; HMS Swiftsure; USS Parche; and the Sturgeon-, Los Angeles- and Seawolf-class, which formed the frontline of the US submarine force from the 1960s to the late 2000s. The selection also includes Soviet and Russian conventional and nuclear-powered attack submarines, the carrier-killing Oscar-class and the ballistic missile-armed Delta-class.

Scenarios and simulation

The 18 scenarios explore the particular demands of underwater warfare using the Command: Modern Operations simulation engine, including mechanics specific to the submarine domain.