Aircraft Tunnel Vision

[Mobhack]

Originally Posted by Imp

I will save them the effort no it can't what it can do is pick the right target for the weapon. A plane armed with cannon is probably looking for armour to plink. Its bombload however might be far better suited to dropping on infantry so really the pilot wants to drop them on infantry.
You not the AI have the luxury of turning them off so they are not wasted assuming of course you survive for another pass.
It did not attack infantry by mistake it attacked them because it was a better target for the payload.

None of the above, naturally.

Planes can now strafe 30 degrees off-axis - have done for the last two releases or so.

Cannon and rockets can therefore be fired at something the bombs don't line up to - the plane can then fly on a bit and bomb if a valid target is directly in line of flight.

The Ai does not "reserve" any weapons.

Andy

[Imp]

Originally Posted by Mobhack

None of the above, naturally.

Planes can now strafe 30 degrees off-axis - have done for the last two releases or so.

Cannon and rockets can therefore be fired at something the bombs don't line up to - the plane can then fly on a bit and bomb if a valid target is directly in line of flight.

The Ai does not "reserve" any weapons.

Andy

Yes realise that but my assumption was a plane armed with cannon & bombs of the high kill low pen variety would fire the cannon at armour then try & bomb infantry if close to it only using the bombs on the armour if nothing better is available. Have I misread things as its just observation so might have percieved it wrong.
I was not saying you need to switch weapons off just you have the luxury if so wish. More a MBT thing turning off standoff weapons because you want to drop the bomb payload.

[Mobhack]

Aircraft fire everything that bear - there is no distinction between cannon or bombs. A plane with "anti-personnel" bombs will just as happily drop on tanks, since they are still bombs.

Andy

[Imp]

Cheers