Recon Markers On Map

[Scherf]

Some reconaissance sorties were indeed carried out by armed mossies, but I'd love to see a P.R. XVI in AH. I for one would fly recce sorties in it.

[Airscrew]

Kev, I think the North Afrika Hurricanes were armed, because that was all that was available at the moment.   I cant say for certainty on the others, I'm thinking I read something about a few armed P-38s or P-51 early on before they made dedicated recon models.  
I think these would be almost as easy to add as the Spitfires,  copy the models,  delete specs on guns (weight, drag, etc) and then add camera specs.   Even if they added a camera option for Spitfires dont you think they would have to tweaked the model settings for the extra 100 or so pounds of camera equipment?

[Kurt]

I think this is a great idea...

BUT

I would like to have it set up so that you can set a marker only visable to your own squad/mission.

In this way you could avoid the obvious exploit of someone posting bogus markers with a shade account.  Frankly, the only people I trust 100% are my squad, and I would only want to see markers placed by members of my squad.

Great concept though, I hope some form of it finds it's way into the game.

With regard to 'revealing' a CV that is visable to a friendly, I think that makes complete logical sense... a CV that is within say 6 or 8k of a friendly unit should be revealed on the map.

[Martyn]

I think this is a brilliant idea. Some of us players simply don't have the reaction times of the younger ones - so are restricted mainly to bomber missions (or being cannon fodder). Having recon missions can really add to their usefulness and, in some respects, are closer to RL anyway.

It's also a darned good reason to add a few planes that in RL were helpful - the PBY (Catalina), Sunderland and Condor for instance.

[hacksaw1]

Zeno's is showing "P-38 Reconnaissance Pilot" that you can watch online.

P-38 Reconnaissance Pilot

Best Regards,

Cement

[Kev367th]

Originally posted by Airscrew
Kev, I think the North Afrika Hurricanes were armed, because that was all that was available at the moment.   I cant say for certainty on the others, I'm thinking I read something about a few armed P-38s or P-51 early on before they made dedicated recon models.  
I think these would be almost as easy to add as the Spitfires,  copy the models,  delete specs on guns (weight, drag, etc) and then add camera specs.   Even if they added a camera option for Spitfires dont you think they would have to tweaked the model settings for the extra 100 or so pounds of camera equipment?

Did some checking on the Hurris -

Yes they were, but had some guns (i.e. IIc had 2 cannons removed) removed so they would still need another model.

Only ones that wouldn't need a model change as they were fully armed -
Spit Ia Type G
Spit FR V
Spit FR IX
Spit FR XIV (only prob - all FR XIV were clipped due to problem with weight)

Just regular Spits with cameras added, but retained all the guns.

[Martyn]

Were there different types/weights of cameras?

[Bad31st]

I'm not sure if it was already mentioned in this thread or not but this "feature" could also allow for "hidden" bases or strats on the maps. The base or strat wouldn't appear on the clipboard until a recon photo(s) were taken.

[Martyn]

I don't like making things too complicated, but if a fully armed plane carries a box brownie - should it be just as useful as, say, an unarmed F5, or recce mossie?

I don't think so.

We get to the situation where we have to calculate altitude and power of the cameras against how well the target is hidden and it's size. More complications.

It would be nice though.

Especially if we had mobile artillery or temporary airfields to find.