My Strike aircraft targeting MY ammo trucks?!?!

narwan · #1 March 13th, 2006, 08:16 PM

No it isn't!

All the human vs human player tests I ran failed to get me friendly fire incident, but as soon as I switched to human vs AI I had 1 aircraft dropping it's load on my own troops. It did NOT specifically target them, just dropped it's ordnance on their location (which was way off the allocated area). Game was 2003, US vs North Korea, A10's (with mixed load including Mavericks) and Pariots with ammo carriers next to them.

Mike, did you have any aircraft actually target your own units or did it just drop it's ordnance on their location (ie was it attacking the hex they were in or the unit itself)?

narwan · #2 March 13th, 2006, 08:48 PM

Been running the same test a number of times now; US (human) vs NK(computer), 10/2003, map 110 by 120, 5000 points each, US forces 8 a-10's with mixed load (incl mavericks), 4 patriots with an ammocarrier each. All A-10's targeted for pre-game strikes in or close to the NK deployment area using different approach routes.

Out of 7 test runs I got 0 friendly fires only once, 3 times 1 out of 8 A-10's did a blue-on-blue, 2 times 2 A-10's did so and once 3 of them did.
Most were 'hex attacks' but on one occassion a patriot was specificaly attacked by an A-10.

Narwan

MikeD · #3 March 14th, 2006, 02:03 AM

Ok, good. So it is not just me then...

I've only had one Tornado clusterbomb an ammo truck tonight playing Germany vs France, I do not think that it was an attack directed at the truck, but it sure did not go where is was supposed to , a Roland missile system at the other end of the board.

This is not designed into the game is it? The blue-blue rates are an awful lot lower than that in real life...

PlasmaKrab · #4 March 14th, 2006, 04:27 AM

Mike,

I know that this isn't a point worth making about pre-planned strikes, but for in-game ones, you may want to have a spotter with a direct LOS on the targetted enemy units, or at least having spotted just once fixed enemy targets (arty, SAMs, etc.).

Aircraft will behave much more rationally if they can find the target you have assignated them. Most of the aircrafts (particularly the Hogs) have poor vision to start with, and have difficulties spotting small targets all by themselves.

Depending on the opponent pairing, you human player may well be the one with the easiest units to spot on the field (like Patriot launchers when the opponent has no radar-guided AA).