Indirect artillery fire?

[dsawan 0]

I know its been discussed but has anyone perfected putting or calling in arty for the troops. Ist it possible to call it in as well as airstrikes. Also, how do you do it in the mission editor?

I have a lot of arty add-ons and would like to know how to do it in a mission editor type mission. I can do premeditated or simply marking them on the editor screen but to call support in suddenly i have no idea how to do it. Thanks

Doug

[dinger 1]

If by "in the mission editor" you mean "without scripting", yeah, it's possible. But to do it, you'd need a pretty good handle on scripting.

(for example: a preplanned strike via radio alpha can be done with two triggers. One is the radio trigger with activation:

Rounds = 3; artyrad = 100; Splash = time

The other is the barrage. Set to "none repeatedly", and have on condition:

(Rounds > 0) && (time > splash)

on activation:

{ardir = random 360; ardist = random artyrad; shell = "Shell120" camcreate [(getpos this select 0) + (ardist * (sin ardir)), (getpos this select 1) + (ardist * (cos ardir)), 500]} ForEach [0,1,2,3]; Rounds = Rounds - 1; splash = time + 15

But the best way to learn arty scripting is to get your hands on a bunch of indirect fire scripts and see how they work, then pick the one that's right for you. In my opinion, the best place to do this is www.ofpec.com (probably because you can find my indirect fire suite there, as well as SnYpir's all-inclusive package)