Ship Early Warning

[gmangnall]

Surely warships should be capable of providing early warning?

[twistking]

i feel all units should be able of providing early warning. i have already proposed a system where every unit could have an EWR trait in it's options, which would allow it to provide updates on air contacts within it's detection range. there should be an option also that "simulates" how tight the unit is incoperated into the controller network: this would basically be just an delay. that way even infantry could relay info about spotted aircraft, but a delay of several minute could simulate the info slowly moving up through chain-of-command then to the controller where it could get used to vector in interceptors... or get discarded because of being too old by that point.
so there would also be the need for a very simple controller AI logic, that could discard "bad" (old) information, prioritize info and/or guess/extrapolate bandit position from multiple sources. not trivial, but also not super complex to implement.

[upyr1]

On 11/15/2023 at 11:19 AM, gmangnall said:

Surely warships should be capable of providing early warning?

In World War II, Korea ships and land based EW were all you had then in Vietnam Red Crown was a call sign given to ships acting as EW