Question about radios

[Mobhack]

Contact is in relation to your superior in the command net.

So AF0 has all his subordinates in contact, and thus may rally them.

But AF0 is not in contact with his superior - so cannot receive rallies from him.

The only thing to worry about is out of contact. Units out of contact will not have rallies from the boss, and cannot call for arty if FOO or commanders. Those are really the only penalties in SP for being out of command control.

So keep your platoon elements within 3-5 hexes of the platoon cmd and they will usually do fine for rallying even without radios.

Cheers
Andy

[raygun]

Roger that about AFx.

What about B1 & B2?

[Imp]

Based on Mobhacks previous answer what do you think?

[raygun]

I'd guess that they'd be in radio contact w/B0 (out of verbal range or they'd have a white R).

However, given that C0 HQ A Co 1 Bn/7 has a white R and is 12 hexes from B0, and given that S0 Recce Plt 1/7 (P leader) has white R and is 20 hex distant from their immediate superior (C0), that theory can not be valid.

[Imp]

Okay I did not really understand that & have no need to know where the units are.
Mobhack stated

Contact is in relation to your superior in the command net.

So B1 + B2 can contact superiors buy radio.
B0 can also contact his superior AO & in fact is near by as has voice contact

As said before though the only ones you need to worry about are Red ones out of contact the rest look after themselves the games figured it out obviosly if you can contact your superior he can contact you.

I rarely use HQ screen for contact apart from maybe to check radio availability at start if its an early period game.
The units contact details show when you select it at the bottom of the screen & while not a hard & fast rule if you use move platoon leaders last they gets in less trouble so can rally others & can be moved to bring the others back into contact if need to.
If you have the CD & press the 5 key it even highlights who he is in charge of for you saving you many hours of game time if you play often.

[raygun]

Originally Posted by Imp

Okay I did not really understand that & have no need to know where the units are.

So B1 + B2 can contact superiors buy [sic] radio.
B0 can also contact his superior AO & in fact is near by as has voice contact...

- emphasis mine

Really!

A0 is in voice contact with B0? They're 200 hexes apart!

C0 is in voice contact with B0? They're 12 hexes apart!

S0 is in voice contact w/C0 from 20 hexes away?



I'm going out on a limb and speculate that white R at 200 hex separation means they got all bars. Yellow R means you got some bars and the call could get dropped. If I have yellow R and I move to w/in 4 hex of my superior, I'm gonna get a white R. While my phone may still have a bad connection: I gots contact because I'm w/in verbal range. Right? OR, by moving either B1 or B0, B1 may get a white R. But if B0 moves such that B1's connection is improved, it could adversely affect C0's comm link to B0 wherby C0 gets no bars to B0 (outright red R). Right?

Suppose B1 drops their call during a rally attempt, does that count against B0? Does that mean that even C0 - with white R - can't be rallied by B0 because B1's rally failed (on account of B1's dropped call)?

[Imp]

Okay I am going to go out on a limb this is the situation at the start of the turn you are talking about NOT after you have moved units or turn 1?
The contact details are updated each turn not during it AFAIK.
Otherwise suggest you post the saved game & someone may look at it.
As all I do is look at out of contact units & follow the rules to bring them back into contact which works thats all I know as its all I need to.

I would say though & may well be wrong as just follow my gut now that units can sometimes maintain contact at longer range for a turn or 2 especially if trained to work independently like scouts.