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Fighter Range Circles
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2023 8:57 pm
by DarkHorse2
Is there a way to get the correct "Escort" Fighter Range Circles to be displayed?
I really find the fighters using the "bombing" Range Circle less than useful. It is actually a hinderance.
If I cannot select which Range Circle to use, than I would want the fighters to use the Range Circle that is appropriate to probably 90% of missions flown, that of escort range.
New players have got to find this confusing as well....
In the following, I want to see the 11 Hex Range Circle - NOT the 15 Hex Circle.
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Re: Fighter Range Circles
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:16 pm
by DarkHorse2
Finally remembered how to jump through the airbase select / mouse-clicking gymnastics to get it to display on this airbase.
Completely impossible on others that have a unit present in the airbase hex....
For a feature to be unusable cannot be WAD.
Maybe devs should consider adding a "hot-key" for this?
Or "hot-key" to toggle AC Range Rings?
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Re: Fighter Range Circles
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:39 pm
by Wiedrock
Yes, sadly hard to access this feature. With multiple Fighters the turquoise cirlce does not rly make sense since it stays one from what I've seen.
Re: Fighter Range Circles
Posted: Wed Dec 06, 2023 11:36 pm
by M60A3TTS
DarkHorse2 wrote: Wed Dec 06, 2023 9:16 pm
Finally remembered how to jump through the airbase select / mouse-clicking gymnastics to get it to display on this airbase.
Completely impossible on others that have a unit present in the airbase hex....
For a feature to be unusable cannot be WAD.
Maybe devs should consider adding a "hot-key" for this?
Or "hot-key" to toggle AC Range Rings?
WiTE2_Fighter_RangeCircles2.JPG
+1
Re: Fighter Range Circles
Posted: Thu Dec 07, 2023 7:13 am
by DarkHorse2
From the "Living Manual" -
Fighter’s, and fighter bombers with a Mission setting of Fighter, display their escort
range for radius in their air unit detail screen. Fighter bombers with a Mission setting
of Bomber, display their combat range (in this case bombing range) for radius in
their air unit detail screen. When the range circles are shown on map using the
AOG functionality if the unit consists of fighter bombers one of two circles will be
shown. If its Mission setting is Fighter, the purple circle will show the area within
which it can escort missions
Uh, no. Does not work that way. Don't remember it ever working that way... Who writes this stuff? Are they playing the same game?
Whoops, spoke too soon... you have to continue reading to get the full gist...
(too funny)
Seems you have to read the entire 1300+ pages because it is written like a change log....
(did we really need to do that in the Living Manual. You can go back and edit stuff and correct previous statements, right?)
Changes to the Air War
Changed the display of air unit range circles shown in the AOG view for fighters and
fighter-bombers that are set to Mission: Fighter. They used to show a purple line
equal to their escort range, but now, they show the purple line equal to their combat
(intercept/patrol) range. The unit detail screen has been changed so that for fighters
and fighter-bombers set to mission:fighter, show escort range/intercept (combat)
range. Clicking on a hex with an airbase in the normal map view (with no ground unit
in the hex), will still show both the green (escort range) circle, and the purple
(combat range) circle, for each air unit at the airbase..