Artillary Spotting.

[honest hound]

Whilst in the Compass, Chicane, Ibis, CAS1 (new coming aircraft), and cricket shall spot out artillary strikes for the up and coming artillary!

it may be a good idea not the best tho

[meager vigil]

It’s a great idea IMO

[cerulean briar]

arty could just function off of dl

[shut harness]

But thats boring

[stray bolt]

Make artillery get more accurate the longer a spotting aircraft is marking for them until their target is destroyed

[jade wyvern]

Yeah kind of like shot correction in warno

[topaz timber]

Given that the Medusa is kind of an AWACS I feel like it should be in this list too.

[shut harness]

Awacs
Dont spot targets for artillery?

[stray bolt]

A Medusa radar could only say that a target is there. It couldn't give the artillery crew corrections to direct their fire.

[topaz timber]

I thought AWACS were also used as command aircraft?
Happy to be wrong, I like learning stuff 🙂

[shut harness]

Its used as a command aircraft but that generally means that it flies in the back and tells others what to do

It does not go up to the front to find the enemy

[sullen spade]

laser guided artillery shells from the chicane

[thorn citrus]

Keep the Crick relevant by giving it lasing pods, so arty shells can be guided by it.

[late edge]

ah yes, the humble awacs

[calm hull]

Cricket life matter! For artillery...

In any way i sure artillery should be installed by players, not by default in heartland. And maybe good installation will be on Opal airport and west coast landing base

[stray bolt]

The cricket being especially good at artillery spotting would give late joining players something meaningful to do

[high spear]

The idea of loitering in a Cricket in direct line of sight to a surface target long enough for a howitzer shell to be fired, fly its entire arc and strike the target gives me Pre-TSD.

[sullen spade]

you still have missiles to do self-DEAD, the artillery is more like extra ammo

[modest skiff]

how about artillery getting extra accuracy/rof against lased targets? we already have the target designation mechanic for the rockets, just have artillery benefit from it.

[twin umbra]

if we ever get the 70's spinoff it would be really cool to see light FAC planes with phosphorus rockets

[mental igloo]

somethings gotta spot the targets for datalink

cough #1396915039650185278

[sullen spade]

in a 70s spinoff FAC planes should be the only one to be able to spot for artillery. If a fast jet finds enemy units they don’t get fired upon by artillery.

[thorn citrus]

For the 70s spinoff it should be a copilot thing. Every plane that has a copilot and spends enough time with direct line of sight of a target should be able to radio in the enemy position.

[twin umbra]

if only could have multicrew

[high spear]

I think they should add copilot/gunner seats that you can drop in/out of if you're not already flying a plane (and the pilot of the plane you're joining consents to it). It would be flexible and convenient, not requiring you to be with the same plane the whole way from takeoff to landing/destruction and allowing things like dedicated Medusa jammer/laser operators (basically you'd be allowed to control any weapon the pilot isn't currently controlling.) Pilot gets full control of movement, countermeasures, landing gear and ejection.

[sand ivy]

I think netcode isn't up to that level of good yet, iirc

[high spear]

I've heard that as well. I'm not sure what the current network architecture is and what kind of prediction/correction the game uses, but if they do improve it I'd love to see multiple players in the same aircraft.

[sand ivy]

same, it's going to be awesome when it's done properly

[cerulean briar]

drones should also be able to do spotting, perhaps deployed from containers or airbases, maybe medusa