The radio grants you to keep sights of your units in range with the radio at the time it read the positions.
You can also communicate with other allied radios, to get their readings for your section.
In both cases, the reading will be saved for 3 days on your map.
Each time you get reading from your section or from the other radios, your map will change with the most accurate
reading for each cell in range of sight.
When you get your positions :
- Each cell in your units' sight (at the moment of the reading) is updated.
- More recent informations on cells are not erased.
Old informations are still present on map, until they'll be erased by observation and radio readings.
That's why there's date on each cell.
- Your readings can be catched by another allied radio with the action 'get other radio reading'.
The allied section can now have access to your informations.
The best way to have good readings is to observe with a scout unit, then read your positions with your radio.
As the observation lasts for only a couple of hours, doing this grants you to keep tracks of the battlefields for a much longer time.
Limits :
- The radio can get only the sights of units which are at a distance equal or less to the score of "reading range".
- And communication with other allied radios is possible in the limit of the "transmission range" characteristic.
As a strategy tip, you have 4 issues with the radio :
- You desert it and the scout (moto) : you run totally blind.
- You use the radio to get the other radio readings from your army : you get a correct but unreal timed vision of battlefield, you use the slot of scout for another combat unit.
- You use the scout and not the radio : your sight is precise, but limited, in range and in time, and you don't share your observation with other buddies.
- You keep the basis : the radio and the scout, you have a good team for observation.
Earning something :
- A reading or a transmission gives 1 XP to your radio, and 3 w$ to your section.
- A transmission gives 3 W$ to the section which 'transmits' the information. (you don't pay for this, it's the I.F. Bank... ! )