FMB - Planes do not engage

[JG53Frankyboy]

i had the same experience - let the flights fly headon eachother on "free hunt".
They just ignored echaother.

anyway, i gave up missionbuilding in CoD (after 8 years in IL2 and hundreds of COOP missions for VOW).

[Nepe_EAF51]

OK, Ive managed to make them engage each other, after looking at one of the campaign missions.

The trick is to do the opposite of what seems "normal"; as "normal" I understand the same thing regarding wps that esmiol proposed.

First wp is normal flight, 2nd is engage, make the fighter merge before they arrive to the engage wp.

Strange, contrary to common sense, at least IMO, but it works that way.

[Thee_oddball]

there is a bug plus the time stamps dont match either i had the spits attack the 109's but they went after the bombers...which were farther away .

S!

[_79_dev]

~S~

I had this problem as well, but now it seems to work strange way:

- I set up waypoints in FMB, lets say for 109 to attack group of spitsts,
- 109 at the merge waypoint have "engage fighters" and target "set" for spits
- spits have "cover" waypoint set so no targets

So situation lookks that 109 egage Me first, while I am in a hurricane and in diffrient group, after one pass 109 goes for Spits the way it should ....lack of discipline even 109 set skill to ace

Now second thing that drive me crazy is that i cant set ju87`s for dive bombing attack even after setting targets, waypoints for "dive bombing" with "ground attack - target", the only way i can force theme to drop bombs is setting waypoint to "ground attack - area" wich goes automaticly and bobs are droped at the waypoint in level attack....

any ideas??

i was trying diffrient weapon sets, detonators, speeds and alltitudes..

[_79_dev]

~S~

Its ok I sorted out my problem with Stukas ...

[41Sqn_Banks]

Originally Posted by _79_dev

~S~

Its ok I sorted out my problem with Stukas ...

And the solution was?

[_79_dev]

Originally Posted by 41Sqn_Banks

And the solution was?

~S~

I build mission containg buildings and other objects aroud airport but i had no planes or any flak, anything static on the red side, I assigned target fo Stukas a hangar at the airport and apparently they did`t treat it like enemies, they drop bombs only when it if i set waypoint "groud attack - area" and they level bomb it.

Then I added few static aircraft over airport and assigned theme as targets for Ju87...That worked straight away...

The ai are about as intelligent as a meat ant.