CV radar

[matt72078]

How about treating the destroyers in the CV group as radar picket ships.  If all the destroyers are alive then the CV radar range is doubled.  As destroyers get sunk the radar circle shrinks.  When all destroyers are sunk radar circle is normal size.

[EagleDNY]

I like that - add 12 miles to the radar ring for each destroyer over 1 that is alive in the CV group up to a maximum of 48 miles.  That would give you much more realistic CV radar coverage. 

[Sabre]

Due to the close proximity of the escorts (DEs) and the carrier, the difference in over all range if all the escorts had their own radar would be inconsequential. During the war, radar equipped destroyers would be sent to take up station many miles from the main body of the fleet, along the likely threat axis. That's how they insured sufficient advanced warning of an incoming raid. They were also horribly exposed, and suffered disproportionately higher losses than ships of the main body. Since there is currently no way to task an escort to move to a picket position, I don't see this as a particularly effect change. The single radar platform of the AH CV fleet puts it on a parallel with what the land bases currently have in the game, but with the added advantage of being mobile. One base, one radar station.

[matt72078]

I know in real life the pickets would be stationed miles away from the main group, but I don't think that it would be feasible in the game to do that.  Giving the CV extra radar range when the destroyers are alive would simulate the pickets.  Considering that task forces had more than one ship with radar by the end of the war CVs should have a little bit radar coverage in the game, at least in LW.

[49Dallas]

Just give radar to each destroyer so the CV will almost never lose it's radar.

[guncrasher]

what else you want.  a cv with dar down will still let you know that enemy planes are inbound.


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