Any chance for implementing Night Fighting?

[I/ZG52_Gaga]

Hi! I would like to know if there's any chance we're going to be able to have night fighting as the SOW progresses so we get to have nice 2 Engine LW AC shooting bomber formations at night?
I think it's an aspect of the WWII that Sims have never delt with. Don't you think it's about time we have it so we get a more complete feel of the era & situation?

[Bearcat]

Can't you alrerady do that with 46?

[I/ZG52_Gaga]

No Ai keap their lights on & you got no radar on board to tear Halifax, Wellington ,Stirling, Lancaster & stuf to pieces
- Also Super Ai can see you inside a cloud & in total darkness (which is stupid) + you never see their motors puffing flames & stuff ... like all A/C did at that time didn’t they? 

[I/ZG52_Gaga]

By the way i have another question .... is there any way to make Ais to drop paratroopers .. i tried to but didn't work they wouldn't drop over targets like they do with bombs ... Anyone? -

Sorry cancel that - figured out thankS! anyway

[Viking]

This was discussed some time ago and Oleg didn’t think the interest for night fighting with all the long eventless flights in pit black nights would justify the time to make it possible.
I find the topic interesting myself but for how long? Seriously?

Viking

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I think the He-219 would be a blast. The P-61 as well. But you are right, it wouldn't hold my interest long enough to justify the amount of work to develop the capability.

[Avimimus]

Originally Posted by Viking

This was discussed some time ago and Oleg didn’t think the interest for night fighting with all the long eventless flights in pit black nights would justify the time to make it possible.
I find the topic interesting myself but for how long? Seriously?

Viking

Actually, SWOTN (a mod for SWOTL) was the last great mod for that game. It is still one of the best depictions of night combat.

There are real challenges to navigation and vectoring at night. Combat between small aircraft is especially challenging. Atmospheric conditions are very important for navigation. The actual bombers had more flexibility, with each bomber crew charting a course and conducting the final run using their own bombsight.

The variety of missions is also much greater than people expect (flying decoy using chaff was dangerous as it drew fighters, pathfinders conducting target marking, attacks on naval targets, lone aircraft conducting harassment flights, German fighters ambushing bombers while they were landing etc.)

The fact is, Oleg doesn't know much about night combat for two reasons:
- It wasn't as developed on the Eastern Front
- On the western front the majority of night bombers were drawn from the Commonwealth not the United States (and thus, despite being equal in size, draws little international press and has never been modeled in a professional sim)

I'm personally hoping that 3rd party mods will convince Oleg to support night bombing through creating a radar operator who vectors the pilot (like the Chain radar stations except that the operator is in the aircraft - this means that Oleg would only have to model the radar's performance, not the actual interface and design)