New Building Type: Radar Station

It would be more historically accurate if allies are the ones with the largest view radius

This is true, the allies were far ahead of this technology compared to others. It might make the allies very overpowered if they have a larger view range than other doctrines. That is why I suggested the allied doctrine can research them 2 days earlier.

This is a fantastic idea. I think that instead of using research to upgrade the capabilities, just upgrading the building would suffice. However, I do believe this should be a very expensive building, vulnerable to strategic bomber raids. In my opinion, upgrading the building should improve the information that it grants as opposed to only increasing range.

Ex:

Lvl 1 shows fog unit and country affiliation.

Lvl 2 shows number of units and type in the stack.

Lvl 3 increases range and shows research levels associated with the types of units.

Maybe a fourth level that sends you a notification that you have an incoming attack on the city.

Just my take on the idea. I think radars could be a very valuable addition to the game. Great work!

Very nice suggestion but it is not a new idea, it's as old as CoW itself.

It's a very detailed proposal! I hope one day the devs will add this to the game.

alpharunner wrote:

This is true, the allies were far ahead of this technology compared to others. It might make the allies very overpowered if they have a larger view range than other doctrines. That is why I suggested the allied doctrine can research them 2 days earlier.

I like this, just I would give the sight bonus to Allies instead of Pan Asian due to the higher amount of knowledge in this territory that Allies had which you mentioned and that giving Pan Asian yet another sight bonus would probably make them overpowered especially against Allies, who have much less speed to respond to faster Pan Asian troops who can already see them coming.

Good suggestion, I added it to the list

Radar stations should be only to see enemy air and naval units note : you can only see planes when they took off

allies doctrine should have better range

level of building should increase to sight

enemy can destroy this building with bombard

radar stations shouldnt show land units

- Most of my maps are over by day 14-16, so making this only available at day 10 makes the whole idea kind of moot. Since they were already crucial (for example) in the Battle of Britain, I see no reason to introduce them so late.

- Spotting incoming planes already has a pretty good range. Since patrolling is the way to go anyway, you have several minutes of fly time PLUS 15m patrolling warning time already. Adding maybe 10 minutes to that doesn't have a super-value. Since they can't even move and will be useless once the battle rolls into new area's, this means they would need to be VERY cheap to have a use case. See the long history of infrastructure getting cheaper and cheaper and people are STILL not willing to buy it (though its finally getting close!). Infrastructure is better than this, I think. I wouldn't pay more than maybe 100 or 200 res for a radar station as you described it.

- A radar station able to spot land units (unrealistic as it may be!) is a completely different matter. Increasing the sight range of you border armored cars would certainly be very valuable, especially since it would eliminate the upkeep of said AC's. Especially useful on a peaceful front with someone you still don't completely trust.

I probably find radar station useful if they had 200 view range per lvl max 4 lvl and be able to detect stealth units.

K.Rokossovski wrote:

- Most of my maps are over by day 14-16, so making this only available at day 10 makes the whole idea kind of moot. Since they were already crucial (for example) in the Battle of Britain, I see no reason to introduce them so late.

- Spotting incoming planes already has a pretty good range. Since patrolling is the way to go anyway, you have several minutes of fly time PLUS 15m patrolling warning time already. Adding maybe 10 minutes to that doesn't have a super-value. Since they can't even move and will be useless once the battle rolls into new area's, this means they would need to be VERY cheap to have a use case. See the long history of infrastructure getting cheaper and cheaper and people are STILL not willing to buy it (though its finally getting close!). Infrastructure is better than this, I think. I wouldn't pay more than maybe 100 or 200 res for a radar station as you described it.

- A radar station able to spot land units (unrealistic as it may be!) is a completely different matter. Increasing the sight range of you border armored cars would certainly be very valuable, especially since it would eliminate the upkeep of said AC's. Especially useful on a peaceful front with someone you still don't completely trust.