TSoH Expanded Spotting Modifiers Table

This table is in use for the current IAF/PAF game, but may be modified for future games. Keep watching.

I'd like to properly attribute this table (I didn't produce it). It came to me from Mark B (TopWop), he says it comes from Guy, Ethan and Felix, but they all deny it! If anyone can lay claim, please let me know.

Modifiers to the aircraft size:

(plan view) Spotting aircraft is in the 60-120 arc of a target aircraft that spent at least 1/3 of its move turning or rolling in the last half of the turn = +1
(front/rear view) Spotting aircraft is in 30 or 180 arc of a target aircraft for the last half of the turn = -1

Modifiers to spotting roll:

Same side and in radio contact = -1
(head/tail-on smokers) Spotting aircraft is in the 30 or 180 arc of a "regular" Smoker-at-Mil-Power aircraft for the last half of the turn = -2
(side-view smokers) Spotting aircraft is in the 60-150 arc of a "regular" Smoker-at-Mil-Power aircraft for the last half of that aircraft's move = -1
(on the horizon) Target remained within one altitude level for each four horizontal hexes of distance to the spotting aircraft (i.e., twice as tough as the level-flight "Limited" vertical limits) for the last half of the turn = -2
(outside turn) Target was on "outside" of spotting aircraft's turn for at least half of aircraft's move = +2
(target fixation) Spotting aircraft selects to padlock an aircraft = +1
(tumbling tank flashes) Target aircraft jettisons FTs during turn = -1

Note: the Smoker-at-Mil-Power mods supplant the regular smoker mods.

Target information:

Spotting a target isn't the whole story, get info based on range to target and its visbility number.

upto 4*vis gives you an unidentified a/c and its colour scheme (cammo, silver, etc).
upto 2*vis gives a/c type.
upto 2 hexes gives specific a/c identifcation (side code equiv.) and an idea of its external stores.

Whilst you maintain visual contact with a target, you will continue to have it reported at the highest ID level you achieved.

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