22.04.2010, 20:05
My apologies if this seems like a simple problem but I've tried a search and no joy.
SCENARIO;
P40Es in the Pacific attacking a Japanese battleship (or rather failing to attack a japanese ship).
PROBLEM:
A DCG-generated mission and I'm manipulating the waypoints etc in FMB.
No matter what I try I can't get them to dive bomb the ship. The P40s (AI) keep dropping their bombs from level flight and always just missing the target.
STORY SO FAR:
I've tried keeping the altitude at 3000m, I've had the ground attack option set over the ship's direction of travel. I have SET the target (i.e. the green line and crosshair) to the battleship. I've tried it without the gattack and just using the target SET button etc (which automatically gives the gattack icon anyway). I've tried dropping them down to 1000m but still no joy. I even tried the DESTROY target object selection and selected the battleship but it made absolutely no difference. I'm out of ideas.
REQUEST:
I know the P40 is not a true dive bomber but if they would at least put in a shallow dive and/or strafe the target that would at least be an improvement. They don't even do that. They fly nonchalantly along and drop their bombs from level flight. Help please!!
Thanks.
Tomoose
SCENARIO;
P40Es in the Pacific attacking a Japanese battleship (or rather failing to attack a japanese ship).
PROBLEM:
A DCG-generated mission and I'm manipulating the waypoints etc in FMB.
No matter what I try I can't get them to dive bomb the ship. The P40s (AI) keep dropping their bombs from level flight and always just missing the target.
STORY SO FAR:
I've tried keeping the altitude at 3000m, I've had the ground attack option set over the ship's direction of travel. I have SET the target (i.e. the green line and crosshair) to the battleship. I've tried it without the gattack and just using the target SET button etc (which automatically gives the gattack icon anyway). I've tried dropping them down to 1000m but still no joy. I even tried the DESTROY target object selection and selected the battleship but it made absolutely no difference. I'm out of ideas.
REQUEST:
I know the P40 is not a true dive bomber but if they would at least put in a shallow dive and/or strafe the target that would at least be an improvement. They don't even do that. They fly nonchalantly along and drop their bombs from level flight. Help please!!
Thanks.
Tomoose