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Originally posted by Ron Saueracker
Only thing I'd like to see is course and speed added to spotting reports.

This would be nice. Course information does not actually exist in the game I imagine, but I suppose it could be "fudged" by comparing the current hex location to the hex location 12 hours prior. But there would also have to be a very significant degree of randomness built into both to reflect the historical unreliability of such reports. Course estimates could be thrown off by specific maneuvers a task force might be engaged in at the time of the sighting (or simply by errors on the part of the spotting plane), and speed is really hard to judge from the air, at a great distance and without any fixed points of reference.

David

Accurate course predictions were only possible if shadowed for a while, since most TFs varied thier courses and sometimes speeds to throw submarines off.

That can result in the kind of reporting inaccuracies that DSandberg is referencing.