ATAG's 1st Bomber Night this Weekend

[klem]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Assign guys to fly patrols over the target areas, saving a flight or two for intercept duties. You will get contact messages when player aircraft find E/A also! Not the best fix, but it would work. Think N.Africa, where no one had radar, heh.

We did assign patrol areas and we did get a couple of "radar" messages when the LW were near our aircraft but its all too late by then, especialy if its after they have bombed the target. Its pure chance that the patrol line will be at the right spot at the right time (we only had four pairs to cover the whole SE coast from Brighton to Ramsgate). Its not even as good as the Observer corps.

No doubt about it, without radar we would have lost the BoB. We would have been no more effective in the air than we were in France and you know how that finished up.

[IvanK]

Originally Posted by cheesehawk

Ya, I know its really ineffective. Just trying to think of a solution as nothing I could do makes it work. Going to test IvanK's mission and see what's different in it.

We tried over 50 radars + radio towers, 0 radars, powering the radar/radio the same way we power searchlights, using airfield AI, everything we could think of. Probably built no less than 25-30 maps. Most was done during the first beta patch.


Ivan, I don't think the contact gets announced at greater than visual range, but instead, think of it as you get the contact call regardless of whether the pilot himself can see the aircraft. It would be within visual range, but perhaps your computer hasn't drawn the dots, or its too high/low for you to see yourself, but they are technically within range it would have been possible to see.

100Km separation from Fighter to target .... Even if the targets were 3 X A380's you wouldn't be able to see them
Also I didnt use any Generators.

Will retest the mission without radar and report back.

[IvanK]

Retested. I took The Radartest2 mission. I removed the Radar1 object (The Transmitter towers) and the 4 Radar 2 objects (Receiver towers). U thw=en flew the spit from Biggin Hill to Dungeness (Heading 130... took about 20mins) until I ran into the HEIII's I did not get any Audio or text regarding contacts.

[IvanK]

Single player with me flying. I will re try with me on the ground.