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¶ Overview
JTACs are essential to scan the zone and maintain our intelligence.
They also provide spotting, and smoking capabilities:
- Marks every 5 minutes
- F10 Map Marker within 1km of the actual unit position at time of update
- Request for smoke
- Chat Command: -smoke (current zone) or -smoke EJ46 to request smoke for the zone based around EJ46
- F10 Command: F10 -> Status -> JTAC -> Mark units in zone
- Generates colored smoke on the JTAC marker and provides player a message with the Bearing and Range from the marker/smoke to the actual position of the unit(s).
- red smoke marks red units, blue smoke marks blue units
- Enemy will be notified that they are being smoked!
- This smoke lasts 5 minutes
- Repeating the smoke command will re-send you an updated Smoke marking reference message.
- You will be unable to request smoke for a varying duration based on player population and distribution
- Smoke requests are limited on a per-zone basis
¶ Units
All units are JTACs in some capacity
| Tier | Blue | Red | Range | Spot |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All Units | 1nm | All units within range that have line of site | ||
| Mobile JTAC | Hummer | Tigr | 5nm | All units within range that have line of site |
| JTAC Tower (Static) | Command Center | Command Center | 15nm | All units within range that have line of site |
¶ JTAC Tower
You may place up to 8 JTAC Towers, these can be placed anywhere on the map.
The JTAC tower is a player deploy-able Command Center (tower with 2 radio masts)
- Obtained as a crate obtainable from a L3 Base or Factory
- Can be carried internal cargo of Utility Trucks, or logistics helicopters
- Takes 30 minutes to establish intelligence reports
¶ Player JTAC
To provide more immediate feedback and further supplement ground offensive and hunter killer operations we have the Player JTAC
This is only available when not carrying cargo (as this would provide vastly increased situational awareness carrying risky loads like tanks etc.).
You will be notified upon departure if you're acting as a JTAC and is available in:
- Mi-8
- UH-1H
- Gazelle
- Kiowa
- CH-47F
What Happens when you're a player JTAC:
- Find out the true zone state, even if no troops are present, including the presence of enemy FARPs
- Whilst the F10 map shows the border color, the fill state for FARP built zones is only shown when we have units in the zone
- When no friendly units present, a player JTACs will also reveal this state.
- Ability to detect FARPs, and automatically create a persistent marker if you get within range based on the presence of a shelter
- Shelter Absent: 700m
- Shelter Present (Shelter B) 2800m
- Automatically detects the 2 closest units and 2 highest priority units within 5nm, without aggregation
- Updates ever 10 seconds!
- Provides bearing and range calls so you can help coordinate friendly assets
- Also referenced by -smoke commands
