Laser and A10

[Chill 0]

I was sure that with 1.42 BI would fix the A10 LGB!! But it still isn't fixed. Sometimes it bombs the target and sometimes it just simply crashes into the ground for nothing. The A10LGB Ai is just purely stupid. Is this prob ever going to be fixed?

[DnA 5143]

My experience is totally different ... I think the A-10 bomber has been improved heaps! To make your bombing run near perfect place them in the same squad as the laser designator soldier (who is leader too) and set the A-10's skill to the max. For me the bombs now drop perfect on their target

[Bonfire 0]

i've tried to LGB something once, and ended up droping it on myself

[Stud 1]

DnA,

"..place them in the same squad as the laser designator soldier (who is leader too) and set the A-10's skill to the max.."

I must be missing something here, correct me if Im wrong but if your all in the same sqauad, one can just order a squad member (your A10) to attack the target via the command menu anyway, making the designator redundant

[FetishFool 0]

Studuk is right.

There must be a dozen posts saying the same thing: "The A10LGB doesn't work!".

The answer is that the A10 won't drop anything unless it has a 99% chance of getting a direct hit.

The A10 will pass by as many times as necessary to get into position. This could be dozens of passes.

And the Laser Designater is supposed to call the A10 when the target is ready. That means that the A10 shouldn't be apart of the squad.

[Dr Jekyll 0]

Since LGBs was never a part of the retail product, we can't expect it to be perfect. It would be good to see improvements in AI for both the A10s and the laser soldiers (so that they actually use the laser des.).

[Flugel 0]

</span><table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="3" cellspacing="1"><tr><td>Quote (Studuk @ Jan. 18 2002,09:48)</td></tr><tr><td id="QUOTE">DnA,

"..place them in the same squad as the laser designator soldier (who is leader too) and set the A-10's skill to the max.."

I must be missing something here, correct me if Im wrong but if your all in the same sqauad, one can just order a squad member (your A10) to attack the target via the command menu anyway, making the designator redundant<span id='postcolor'>

if u issue an attack order directly, it will only use the 30mm gatling to attack its target. U really need that laserdot to get those bombs down ..

[Dr Jekyll 0]

You need to order the A10s to target the laser dot, not the real target. It looks like the laser dot is treated like any normal enemy in the game and unfortunately that means that it also needs to be "spotted" before you can order A10s to target it, usually the A10s spot it for you on their first pass and you can order the fireworks for the second pass. Just pray that there isn't any shilkas around.

[Martin 0]

the laser and a10 works fine..hits moving targets perfectly

[DnA 5143]

Studuk, yes you can then order the A-10 to attack a target ... let's say a BMP directly and it will may then also choose for its maingun instead of its LGBs, but you can also select the "Laser Target" as a target which is totally independent from the BMP ... the then targetted object can also be just a piece of ground, a tree or a house and you can even move the "Laser Target" around. This makes the laser target a more powerfull weapon than just assigning a known enemy (like Dr Jekyll said).

I agree though ... you should just be able to designate a target and any A-10 outside your squad should then be able to bomb it succesfully.

[hollywood 0]

Yep...even if the A10s are not in the same group, they seem to perform reasonably (not great though) as long as you call out the target twice (the second time being 'Laser Target xxxx').

Still think they need a bit of tweaking though...

[Damage Inc 0]

Do they still kill themselves by dropping bombs from a too low altitude?

[dkraver 1]

There still one bug with the Laser. All works great when you have the laser or is part of a group on ground and order a group member to target with laser. But if you are flying the plane and order the guy on the ground to target with the laser you wont see the laser target yourself when fly over it tried 30 fly overs and didnt get lasertarget in my target menu (i used exactly the same commands as when i where ordering a group member to target, and then it worked)

Have any other tried this and got it to work pls tell me how.

[Chill 0]

No matter if he is in the group(A10) he still does not bomb the target! In the desert map the A10 might but its way too inconsistent!

[MP 0]

I had a horrible time trying to get the A-10 to even let go of a bomb but after installing the v1.42 patch it work's like a charm . I found that I have to tell the pilot the actually attack (engage) the laser target (not just to target it). And lone behold he strikes with a perfect hit on the second pass evertime I tried it.

It was so acurate I let the AI take control of the laser designator and the A-10 because I wanted to see how it would preform with no user input. I had now where to go so I became the T-80 tank comander knowing my faith . The A-10 came into range, I took a few shot's at it with the machine gun and the second time it came it just flew over me as cool as a breze AND THEN I EXPLODED. All I could see was sky, ground, sky, ground, sky...

So in conclusion the A-10 (LGB) and the Laser designator are a top notch addon.