This has been the whole point of this exercise with me for many, many years now. Don and I have had many discussions over the "vision" question across all platforms in this game. He has convinced awhile back of the importance of maintaining if you will an "upper limit" within the game for vision currently capped at 60 hexes for air units and 50 for the more advanced armor in the game. We don't have in my opinion a
playable map where in "
real life" air/armor units couldn't see all the way across it and in the case of air units a large wide area of it as well.
It took me awhile out here (Ask Don.) to realize there has to
definitely be a balance between those above mentioned factors. It is important to maintain these distinctions for this game to keep it viable for the player. We don't need everyone seeing everyone else on the map, which I can assure you we and others can do at both the tactical and strategic level in real time.
That being said, this is why certain units have that "watered down" advantage to encourage the player to think about those nasty things potentially being out there and to get you thinking tactically and not like the general that ordered "The Charge of the Light Brigade" it ended bad for them, it'll end bad for your units as well.
It seems at times, and I could be sadly mistaken, this is a game about maneuver as much as it's about combat. Sometimes that seems to get lost out here. Case in point any air that spots your "hidden" units or your SPA/SPAA etc. units, I would hope that'll cause you to move them if you can if ever I play against a human and you don't move, your units will pay the price. I also can promise you the AI
WILL NOT hesitate to do the same as well.
What I see is the dialing back of vision (
TI/GSR) for certain countries receiving advanced equipment from other countries. By example, the USA
AH-64E after some discussion with Don, I submitted it with a
60 TI/GSR very fair given the first 2 paras above. However Taiwan has them now as well and operational, the UK, South Korea and India are getting them as well. But would we give those countries the full package from at least the FCS standpoint of which TI/GSR is a direct component of that said FCS? In short the answer is no. The below ref. will show a real life case of that situation.
What I'm going to recommend is in the above case either a generous 55 or probably a more realistic 50. I believe in the USA OOB the
AH-64D LONGBOW current vision is at 50, with that ref. that number would be supported game wise.
http://www.janes.com/article/59908/a...rs-for-apaches
Parity should
never be a part of this game, there will always be "the haves" and "have nots" that being said I seem to remember the "have nots" did a pretty good job against two major "haves" in a place called Vietnam.
I need to get to bed, just something nice about knowing you have only one work day in the week and three when you come back. Life is good sometimes that way.
Remember don't go over that hill and through the trees too fast something bad might be on the other side!! 
Regards,
Pat
Re: Jets & Planes but no UAV's here.
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