Capturing a Port locates it's CV

[Vinkman]

How about if you capture the home port of a CV, it gives up the location of that CV?

You'd still have to go to great lengths to fly across the map and sink it, so not an easy 'poof' return.
It would add some extra incentive to defend the port when the CV was at sea, even when it wasn't being hidden, to keep it's loaction secret when it's in route to a fight.
It would still allow for strategic 'moving' of the CV to keep it fom falling into enemy hands, just not 'hiding'.
would end the need for 'spying' to find it, because capturing the port would locate it.
Locating could be exact, shoing the CV icon in red, or soft, where a it's number is displayed in the corner of the sector box it's located in.

Fun for all? 

[PFactorDave]

I like it.  +1

[gyrene81]

nice idea vinkman.   

[Wiley]

Good, yes.  +1

Wiley.

[RTHolmes]

it shouldnt track the CV in realtime, just show its location at the time that the port was captured (ie. the troops have seized intel when they captured the maproom).

otherwise an excellent suggestion

[B-17]

I like this idea very much. It adds more realism to the game, but doesn't take away from the 'gamey-ness'

[Soulyss]

I like it.

[B-17]

I'm curious... do you think it would take a huge amount of effort to put this into effect?

[Becinhu]

I would look forward to the  from the NOE horde skuads.

[alpini13]

no,makes no sense at all. if you capture someplace,why would you magically know where the cv or anything related to it was????

[Krupinski]

no,makes no sense at all. if you capture someplace,why would you magically know where the cv or anything related to it was????

it shouldnt track the CV in realtime, just show its location at the time that the port was captured (ie. the troops have seized intel when they captured the maproom).

otherwise an excellent suggestion

+1 I lyke.

[PFactorDave]

no,makes no sense at all. if you capture someplace,why would you magically know where the cv or anything related to it was????

Well if the Japanese had landed troops at Pearl Harbor and captured the base, don't you think they would have recovered enough intel to have a pretty good idea of where the American carriers were?  Maps?  Interrogations of captured people?

I don't think the premise is unreasonable.

[Tank-Ace]

no,makes no sense at all. if you capture someplace,why would you magically know where the cv or anything related to it was????

The captured CV has been making regular reports to its home port. Most recent transmition was an urgent request for more ammunition and beer, as supplys were running dangerously low. Given are the coordinates to direct the supply ship which left just mere minutes before.


Another thing that would be good to have is a constant supply convoy running between the CV and the port. That would let you follow the convoys to find the CV.

[gyrene81]

no,makes no sense at all. if you capture someplace,why would you magically know where the cv or anything related to it was????

i sense that you're serious in some way. so there wouldn't be any sort of intel on that base anywhere after it was captured? there was a lot of paper used in the military then, no satellites, wide area networks, internet, etc...

[Wiley]

Considering it for a bit, I think I'm also on board with it just showing the location when the port is captured, maybe a heading.  That way, the longer you wait, the less accurate the location will be.  It would be incentive to move on it quickly, and a penalty for those who don't bother to act on the info for a while.

Wiley.