4.11 General debugging

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Lagarto

I would still consider it a bug. Recently I've had to remove AA from my own airfield, because they were insanely firing at some distant target, hitting friendly aircraft on the runway. It's a ridiculous situation that shouldn't happen.
I'd rather see AA not engage ground targets at all.

I would prefer to see the behaviour either not changed or modifiable. AAA in many cases engaged targets on the ground. The most famous examples would be the Flak 88mm that the Germans pressed into anti-tank service with very successful results. Other AAA types were also used and many placed machine guns in-game engage air and ground targets.

There are two solutions of which one already exists. Change the maximum range engagement which is already a feature. If you want AAA not to engage, define a minimum fire distance closer than the ground objects. Not perfect but workable in many situations.

The second would be to define by some sort of toggle. This would be an addon feature. Engage: Ground Only, Ground+Air, Air Only.

But I think it would be a loss to some scenarios (I have some in past campaigns) if primarily AAA guns were not shooting at vehicles/tanks.

[Igo kyu]

88s were known for firing at ground targets, but to fire at tanks they'd have used different ammunition (solid shot).

[IceFire]

Originally Posted by Igo kyu

88s were known for firing at ground targets, but to fire at tanks they'd have used different ammunition (solid shot).

Not sure if that's represented in-game. If another entry for all AAA that should also fire at tanks/vehicles is easier then that'd be ok in my mind too. Just requires some reworking of older missions.

[idefix44]

Please guys,
Don't be off-topic. We aren't in the 4.12 whish list.
The problem isn't in the AA usage or features. Play the track joined in .zip file.