How Do i Call In Airstrikes?

[TheBlackBrit 10]

i'm not talking about the editor. I am on village sweep scenario and i want to use an airstrike, people have told me to just look at the target and use the radio. There is no option for airstrike and i clicked and saw the red dot but nothing happened, i even sat there for 5 minutes with no luck, Help?(i am new to the game)

[kylania 568]

Wait till you see the hint up in the top right corner which says Support requests available: Tactical Airstrike (CAS).

When you need the support aim your cursor/weapon where you want the airstrike to attack then press Spacebar then scroll to Communication and select it. Then select Request Support then select Tactical Airstrike CAS. When you select Tactical Airstrike CAS whatever your weapon cursor was on will be the area the planes fly towards. To make them attack lase something with your Laser Marker and they'll drop LGBs on it.

In OA it appears as if the AV-8Bs are replaced with A-10s oddly enough.

Edited August 17, 2011 by kylania

[TheBlackBrit 10]

thank you

[domokun 515]

I seem to have a problem with airstrikes in that whenever I call one in I get killed because it lands on my position. Its as if when the operator asks for the target coordinates but it instantly transmits my coordinates.

The only workaround that I've found is to open the map and move the cursor to wherever I want the airstrike and then contact the operator. In this case it instantly transmits my cursor's coordinates.

It might sound weird but when I first started playing, I seem to remember that you clicked the map to transmit your coordinates. This was not only more intuitive but less lethal.

This "instant" coordinate acquisition is very frustrating and rather dangerous.

So does anyone have a workaround ?

Edited August 17, 2011 by domokun

[tom3kb 15]

I always put cursor and click on map where i want to call air strike. Its the best solution for me. It always work.

[domokun 515]

But that's precisely what I mean, i.e. I don't get the chance to click on the map - I request CAS and instantly the controller confirms my request, leaving me thinking "Oh sh1t! What coordinates is he using?"

Sure enough, a few minutes later, hellfire rains down on my position reducing me, and often my squad too, to chum.

[rangerpl 13]

It calls in strikes on where your character is looking at in the game world, not on the map.

[tom3kb 15]

Not exactly you can call air strikes using map. Open map move cursor in the place where you want air strike, call air strike use 8-?, and that im not sure click 1 time on map but maybe you dont even have to.