Aircraft attacking enemy units! Unsung Mod?

[gavinthecat 0]

Hey guys, 

 

Why the heck do 'aircraft' not engage enemy units with their allocated pylon weapons? Bombs? rockets? Missiles alas.... too often they fly in circles around enemy units. 

 

Bohemia... please add this functionality and lol, in the meantime gents - after all these years... is there a mod or a script, that simply adds an engagement AI to aircraft, so that they will use bombs / and / or their full weapon capabilities against enemy units? Or are we still on a page full of script to make a jet bomb a tank etc. 

 

Thanks again :) 

[Grumpy Old Man 3540]

16 hours ago, gavinthecat said:

Hey guys, 

 

Why the heck do 'aircraft' not engage enemy units with their allocated pylon weapons? Bombs? rockets? Missiles alas.... too often they fly in circles around enemy units. 

 

Bohemia... please add this functionality and lol, in the meantime gents - after all these years... is there a mod or a script, that simply adds an engagement AI to aircraft, so that they will use bombs / and / or their full weapon capabilities against enemy units? Or are we still on a page full of script to make a jet bomb a tank etc. 

 

Thanks again :) 

 

A few factors play into AI choppers engaging ground units on their own.

• Visibility
• Day/Nighttime
• Choppers current direction (also read the few posts before mine)
• knowsAbout value

 

A simple reveal and domove command are usually enough to make choppers attack ground units during daylight, somthing like this, with "test" being an enemy rifleman:

//chopper init
this domove getposatl test;
this reveal [test,4];
this dotarget test

 

Cheers

[socs 92]

17 hours ago, gavinthecat said:

Hey guys, 

 

Why the heck do 'aircraft' not engage enemy units with their allocated pylon weapons? Bombs? rockets? Missiles alas.... too often they fly in circles around enemy units. 

 

Bohemia... please add this functionality and lol, in the meantime gents - after all these years... is there a mod or a script, that simply adds an engagement AI to aircraft, so that they will use bombs / and / or their full weapon capabilities against enemy units? Or are we still on a page full of script to make a jet bomb a tank etc. 

 

Thanks again :) 

Unsung has nothing to do with BI developers, If you need help you're better off asking in the official Unsung thread... I've linked the 2 of them here... I will also link you the steam group where you should go if you have comments/questions... Try not to create new threads if you have a question about 1 particular mod as these mods typically have official pages on this forum where you can ask questions, and somebody that knows about it can give you a valid response... Cheers and enjoy! :D

 

https://steamcommunity.com/groups/theunsungvietnamwarmod
 

 

[gavinthecat 0]

Hi guys thanks for the replies and assistance regarding helicopters.

 

My question though about jets/aircraft applies to the regular game, regardless of which mod one uses or not. It's simply this... is there a simple way to make AI aircraft (not helicopters in this case) to attack enemy units. 

 

From the BI jets with bombs... pylons features and all that, it seems peculiar that still, we can't place these units in the editor... waypoint them towards enemy units and have them drop bombs or use guided missiles etc.