Visibility & Airstrikes

[Crossroads]

For what it's worth, I just finished reading the excellent The Guns of Normandy by George Blackburn, detailing his experiences as an artillery observer at Normandy as part of the Canadian 4th Field Regiment.

He often praises the work done by the Typhoons and Spitfires, mentioning how it was a practice for the FOOs to mark locations where enemy tanks and strongpoints were present with firing red smoke on top of them.

A couple of times this was even performed under quite strong overcast, with the pilots revving in just under the low hanging clouds, and not seeing the targets initially but trusting they would have just enough time to target their bomb and rocket loads seconds before they need to pull up again.

All this seems to match how Air attacks are carried out in JTCS, althoug in this case it would be justified that as part of the random event of an air strike being recalled they could also hit a random area around the target, similar to how indirect fire performs.

But yes, at least some visibility was required.