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Originally Posted by Zero Niner
Trying to determine what 304_NoJapaneseRadar (removes radar from most of the Japanese aircraft) actually does, in terms of gameplay.
Right now I'm on patrol in the Formosa area, early Oct '44, and I'm finding heavy air activity that wasn't there in earlier patrols in that area. Even at night, I have Betties making a beeline for me. Does the game give the aircraft some sort of radar that helps them spot surfaced subs?
From what I know of WW2, no one does night sorties except for night fighters hunting bombers doing night bombing missions. But not night ASW patrols.
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304_NoJapaneseRadar is actually 304_NoJapaneseAirRadar, and the only planes with radar then are the flying boats and the kamakazi planes. Most planes will not home-in on you as strongly. As both J0313 and Bubblehead1980 said though, they did have airborne radar, and rather early also, on the 4-engined flying boats, and then in late 1942 on a selection of the Betties. They gradually added more and more radar through 43 to 44 and then as Bubbles says, the got MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detector) equipment, which were on a few select planes that flew along the coast of Indo-China and China, especially the Formosa Strait. We somewhat attempt to emulate that in FotRSU, but if you use the 305_LessJapaneseAirRadar AddIn, the radars are later, and do not upgrade to the good stuff, except (of course) on the 4-engine flying boats and the Kamakazi. The Kamakazi need the radar for "targeting", else they don't hit very often... lol