Weather

[Xargun]

This may have been covered before, but I don't remember reading it...

In UV the weather report covers the entire threater of operations... How is it handled in WitP ? Can you get a weather report for individual hexes ? For areas on the map ?

Xargun

[Mike Scholl]

Based soley on the banter of the testers, the weather will be handled in a manner
fairly similar to UV. The big exception being that extra severity factors will come
into play in the Aleutians area. Weather "systems" and the East Asian "monsoon"
cycle don't seem to have made it into the game (A real shame in the case of the
Monsoons, which pretty much "shut down" the war in various areas at various times
of the year.)

[mogami]

Hi, The map is divided into zones. Each zone has it's own weather. So it can be stormy in one part of the map and clear in another. Certain zones have much more severe weather compared to other zones. Still even in a zone that has bad weather you will find clear hexes. (and cloudy hexes in zones that are clear)
The monsoon would have been good in Burma. I don't think year round combat is a realistic thing there.

[Xargun]

Thanks for the replies guys...

Xargun

[Hemajor]

Hi,
What about weatherforecast. Will it be possible to look futher ahead in WitP than the one day in UV? It could be cool if you could take advantage of the weather in your planing.

[Rendova]

Is the weather acurrate at all? In UV it seems completly hit or miss. I like some randomness but in UV is the forcast seems to be just a wild dream with the actual weather being another wild dream with niether related.

[Pascal_slith]

ORIGINAL: Hemajor

Hi,
What about weatherforecast. Will it be possible to look futher ahead in WitP than the one day in UV? It could be cool if you could take advantage of the weather in your planing.

Very interesting. What is the story about multi-day forecasts for each zone?

[Xargun]

A weather forcast for even a 3-day period would be very helpful.. Nothing like sending an air TF to support an invasion only to have bad weather ground all the aircraft, and a nearby enemy surface TF intercepts and ruins your day.. A weather forcast (even if 20% wrong or so) would be a great addition.

Xargun

[pasternakski]

As I tell myself when I see a particularly beautiful woman, "I want it, but I'm not getting it."

[PBYPilot]

72 hour forecasts really weren't available or reliable until the advent of satellite imagery, supercomputers and numerical forecasting. Before that forecasters considered themselves lucky if they got things right a day ahead of time. And that was in areas with a relatively dense "aerology'" net, like America or Europe.
Forecasting uncertainties were increased in areas where reporting stations were few and far between, large areas in enemy hands, and the regional meterology poorly understood. Like in the Pacific in the 1940's.

PBYPilot
"Slow airplanes and fast women"

[LargeSlowTarget]

Nothing like sending an air TF to support an invasion only to have bad weather ground all the aircraft, and a nearby enemy surface TF intercepts and ruins your day..

I can live with enemy surface TFs intercepting my invasion TF - it's this blue textile thing in pasternakski's attachment that ruins my day... [:D]