How to give control of your gunners back to the AI

[von Brühl]

Quick flight tests in the Ju-88 confirms this is not the case. Cycling through all slots de-activated all my gunners, and the Ju-88 don't dogfight so good

[Blackdog_kt]

Originally Posted by von Brühl

Quick flight tests in the Ju-88 confirms this is not the case. Cycling through all slots de-activated all my gunners, and the Ju-88 don't dogfight so good

You have to cycle to pilot, bombardier and pilot again.

I thought it worked in the 88 but i didn't specifically test it because i thought it held true for all bombers after seeing it work in the Blenheim.

[von Brühl]

I cycled through both directions, set up a mission with 4 Hurricanes attacking (so there'd always be 1 within range of the gunners). Either way I cycled, gunners were limp after I returned to pilot position. Maybe it will work different on a server?

[Blackdog_kt]

Actually that's a good point. Maybe AI takes over when connected online, as part of the whole "jump into crew position" feature (eg, what happens when the player who was manning your guns disconnects?).

[ATAG_Doc]

Hi

I have noticed that if you cycle though the stations and end up going from the top gunner station to pilot then your top gunner is occupied by you. It occupies the last 2 stations you were using.

So if you go from the pilot to bombardier and back to pilot via alt+1 after you've been in the top gunner position its clears the top gunner and AI takes over again.

The 110 and 87 you have no other choice to switch to another station.

[von Brühl]

That could be the case, since the 88 doesn't have that many positions, and maybe 4 hurri's aren't enough attacking planes to guarantee someone has a shot. Now I need a B-17G and a pack of Zero's chasing me....