4.13 development update discussion and feedback

[Pursuivant]

Certainly it's not for 4.13, but it seems like it wouldn't be too hard to create the various radio navigation/blind bombing aids that were used during the "Battle of the Beams" over England and Germany during 1940-41, and afterwards.

Nothing would be needed in terms of graphics, but new "beam lines" would need to be added to the appropriate maps, and some programming and research would be needed. Possibly it would be necessary to set up new features in the FMB to allow mission builders to center blind bombing aids like Knickbein, X-Gerat or Gee over a particular map location.

While it might be too much work to figure out all the Gee charts for a particular map, it seems like it wouldn't be too much trouble to model Lorenz, Knickbein, X-Gerat, Y-Gerat, and so forth, since they were automated systems that just produced dots, dashes or steady tones depending on the plane's location.

Jamming systems against these blind bombing aids would take more work in terms of programming.

Ground controlled blind bombing or radio navigation systems would also take more work, since there would be some AI and voice-programming work required.

Adding these blind bombing aids would make it more fun to fly night bombing missions, because you could actually find your target.

Long range radio navigation systems could also be used to make large and otherwise featureless maps, like a hypothetical map of the North Atlantic or Western Approaches, interesting.