Planes recon ability !

Matrix Games Forums

Forums Register Login Photo Gallery Member List Search Calendars FAQ

My Profile Inbox Address Book My Subscription My Forums Log Out

Planes recon ability !

View related threads: (in this forum | in all forums)

Logged in as: Guest

Users viewing this topic: none

Printable Version

All Forums >> [Current Games From Matrix.] >> [World War II] >> Steel Panthers World At War & Mega Campaigns >> Planes recon ability !

Page: [1]

Message

<< Older Topic Newer Topic >>

Planes recon ability ! - 7/22/2000 3:59:00 PM

Steel Thunder

Posts: 47
Joined: 7/6/2000
From: Finland
Status: offline

I think that planes "see" a way too much when doing air strikes. That makes them excellent recon units. Put a couple of your planes fly across the map and you know exactly where the enemy is. Pilots don't have time and chance to look around when strafing. So planes field of vision must be straight ahead and only 3 or 4 hexes wide. That corrects the problem. Opinions about this please! Steel Thunder

_____________________________

Post #: 1

- 7/23/2000 12:54:00 AM

Wild Bill

Posts: 6821
Joined: 4/7/2000
From: Smyrna, Ga, 30080
Status: offline

Since recon planes were not included in our version of the game, we allowed passing aircraft to see a little more. I have not noticed that much being revealed but I will play a scenario with aircraft and take another look. Thanks for mentioning this ST...WB ------------------ In Arduis Fidelis Wild Bill Wilder Coordinator, Scenario Design Matrix Games

_____________________________

In Arduis Fidelis
Wild Bill Wilder
Independent Game Consultant

(in reply to Steel Thunder)

Post #: 2

- 7/23/2000 1:22:00 AM

victorhauser

Posts: 318
Joined: 5/29/2000
From: austin, texas
Status: offline

Aircraft spot less in SPWAW than in earlier versions of SP. And while aircraft do seem to "see" things besides what they are attacking, I do not see anything broken with that. I've spent most of my wargaming life studying WW2 airpower and I don't believe that you can take an attack run by a single plane to be happening in a vacuum. The attack aircraft from all nations typically attacked under the direction and coordination of a flight or squadron (or higher) leader. And that commander usually "orbited" the target area either before and/or after his own attack run. One of the main concerns of attack aircraft was hostile AAA and all attacking aircraft were on the lookout for it and reported it to their comrades (along with anything else they might see). So even though we might only see one or two aircraft attacking in a given battle, it doesn't mean that there aren't other eyes in the sky watching and coordinating and communicating those attack efforts.

_____________________________

VAH

(in reply to Steel Thunder)

Post #: 3