Problems with air launched weapons.

[Weasel]

I have seen the exact same thing. Missiles of all types have very low % hit chance. Cluster munitions have always been useless in MBT, the dreaded MLRS isn't so dreaded in this game. I for one won't waste money on them.

Have you ever seen movie clips of cluster munitions on THE MILITARY CHANNEL? Man those puppies lay waste to anything they come near!

[Wonder]

In my experience the most useful form of fire support is 155mm artillery that also has cluster munitions. I once was playing as Swedish defenders against a Russian advance. I saw a delicious bottleneck in form of a bridge, so I mined my end of it and had infantry to make sure nothing got through.

The infantry units came under heavy fire from the T80s and T72s parked on the bridge a couple of hexes away from them, so I called an artillery strike using CM on them. I usually use my FO to direct artillery for faster delivery even if they don't have LOS, but this time I knew accuracy would count more. Besides, my friendly infantry that was under fire was too close, so I used it to direct fire instead.

The result was devastating! The first single hit took out 4 T80s and 1 T72 parked in the same hex in addition to 2 more T72s parked in adjacent hexes! The remaining rounds didn't have much else other than their crews to take out!

Then again of course, the conditions were ideal; My spotter had LOS on the target, and the tanks were stationary and bunched up in a single hex on the bridge with no cover available.

[Thexder]

I think this changed with some patch (either 2.00 or 2.51) that made the artillery considerably more effective. I've been having fun with the Finnish 155mm off-map arty with AP-ammunition. I once destroyed 3 T-80's and 3 BMP-2's during one single strike! And that was against a human opponent that has usually beaten me. You can imagine my reaction when I watched the replay.

[SGTGunn]

MLRS is devastating for counter battery missions - which is exactly what it was designed for. Buy a battery or two of MLRS, and don't use them for called fire missions, and watch your opponents OB artillery get wiped out.

I agree that air launched ATGMs are too inaccurate. For some reason, I keep seeing Mavericks consistently display a "49%" hit percentage, and consistently miss. Very frustrating. Even worse is when a Maverick hits a light AFV, and no kill. A 30cm 80lb HEAT warhead should brew up ANY AFV it hits, let alone something like a BRDM-2 that can be chewed up by .50 cal AP.

Adrian