Night Missions

[greyeyes]

I was wondering about using TACOPS for night missions. Something that the Army trained for. Is it possible to do this by setting the observation distance to very low numbers?

[pmaidhof]

Yes it night/limited visibility ops can be replicated. Reduce the "manual" visibility to whatever distance you feel is attainable for your mission, taking into account moonlight, cloud cover, and/or other ambient light sources. Leave your thermal sight capability on.

btw, there is also a good cpx description of a limited visibility recon scenario. It is in the AAR section on the tacops page. Unfortunately, I do not recall the name of that specific report. Perhaps James Sterrett or one of the other participants could give you more info on that.

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Semper Fi,

Pete

mar03

[pmaidhof]

Yes night/limited visibility ops can be replicated. Reduce the "manual" visibility to whatever distance you feel is attainable for your mission, taking into account moonlight, cloud cover, and/or other ambient light sources. Leave your thermal sight capability on.

btw, there is also a good cpx description of a limited visibility recon scenario. It is in the AAR section on the tacops page. Unfortunately, I do not recall the name of that specific report. Perhaps James Sterrett or one of the other participants could give you more info on that.

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Semper Fi,

Pete

mar03

[James Sterrett]

<a href=http://www.battlefront.com/resources/tacops/HQ/text/CPX/cpxaars/gagetown.txt>Recce Battle at Gagetown</a> was the CPX.

There are things that don't work right for a night battle - no illumination, no spotting firing units beyond normal visibility. But you can get an approximation.