About the old scout planes

[Sinboto]

I'm not sure if anyone remembers those old scout planes that you could launch and would zip around the map randomly but perhaps we could get those back as an alternative to the ones we have now on BBs? I used to like using mine and it saved my bacon a few times, maybe even let us send it to scout a certain area, would give our AA guns something to shoot too. 

[Atomicfireball]

I agree, I wish our scout planes are a little more functionality. 

[Personator]

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[Sinboto]

I like bacon, can I eat yours? Much likes will be appreciated 

 

If a man gives you his bacon that means he loves you above all else, sorry to say but I don't feel for you that way... 

[goldeagle1123]

I think it's weird how they work now. Send up a plane increases your max firing range..? Not that any of the guns in this game get their historical range anyways.

[NK_33]

You mean give BBs the chance to spot destroyers outside of torpedo range?

 

What kind of sick heretic are you?

[Show_Me_Your_Cits]

I think it's weird how they work now. Send up a plane increases your max firing range..? Not that any of the guns in this game get their historical range anyways.

 

That's kinda the way it worked IRL. Let you shoot over the horizon and try to hit things. 

 

And they need to do something about that ridiculous cooldown on spotters.... 

[goldeagle1123]

 

That's kinda the way it worked IRL. Let you shoot over the horizon and try to hit things.

 

And they need to do something about that ridiculous cooldown on spotters....

 

  So we can both agree that BB should be able to leave the map and fire over the horizon?

Also I do agree, most BBs can't even launch all their spotters without having several shot down.

[Sir_Davos_Seaworth]

I kind of gave up on mine... It messes up my aiming points, and I can't hit anything.

[goldeagle1123]

I kind of gave up on mine... It messes up my aiming points, and I can't hit anything.

 

The only thing it affects in terms of aiming is how you judge your vertical lead. Which isn't too hard in my opinion. Just take a rough guess at where you think they'll be in your given ships shell travel time.

[IronWolfV]

I too want the old scout planes back.

[Phoenix_jz]

I don't have much BB experience, literally the most powerful BB I've played(not counting the April fools space ships) is the ARP Kirishima, and I find the spotter actually easier to aim.

I mean, tbh, I'd rather spotters work the way they used to.

They usually had tondly over the target in order to direct fire, no loiter above their own ship XD

[VTAdmiral]

I think it's weird how they work now. Send up a plane increases your max firing range..? Not that any of the guns in this game get their historical range anyways.

 

Guns in the game fire out to their effective range, not their maximum range. Putting up an artillery spotting plane increases that effective range because you have a fairy in the cockpit that radios telemetry to your fire directors, increasing long range accuracy to something other than "piss-poor" at extended ranges.

 

What we have in the game is not a scout plane, it's an artillery spotting aircraft. The other option is a defensive catapult fighter.

 

Aircraft that are missing: Scouting seaplanes, catapult bombers.

[Retnav54]

 

Guns in the game fire out to their effective range, not their maximum range. Putting up an artillery spotting plane increases that effective range because you have a fairy in the cockpit that radios telemetry to your fire directors, increasing long range accuracy to something other than "piss-poor" at extended ranges.

 

"Fairy in the cockpit", commonly referred to as an "Airedale".

 

[Numbah18]

I too want the old scout planes back.

 

I would like for the ability to control your scout plane to come back to. Be nice if the CV wasn't the only person who could scout or if I could park my scout plane over somewhere I know a DD is hiding to keep him lit up. Only thing is playing a DD would get much much harder maybe even impossible if every ship with a plane could park it over them.

[atPrick__]

the only time i make sure i use them is directly before death...

 

as I find the the dead ship scout/fighter the most annoying thing in the world when I'm playing DD.