Ground attackers not escorted in careers

[Bando]

24 minutes ago, Juri_JS said:

When Soviet air superiority became too strong, Fw-190 ground attack units had to change their tactics. Targets were approached at high altitude and attacked by diving through the enemy fighter screen. After dropping their bombs the aircraft would escape into friendly territory at high speed.

This is what bothers me the most in the game. The AI just keeps attacking the ground targets until the program indicates the target goals are met. This seems to be a time limitation.

I often make 1 or at most 2 passes over the target and get out of the fray. When I do this alone (squadron commander leaving the rest of the intended flight at home) I usually bomb the target, fly home and wait (on 4x time compress) until the timer has ticked to the end and then get a mission accomplished.

Also, when I order an AI flight to bomb a bridge, they often come back with a mission accomplished but the targets they destroyed are trucks and such, no bridge. When you as a player take part and the bridge is not destroyed you will never get the mission accomplished.

[Yogiflight]

1 hour ago, Juri_JS said:

During such attacks the units escort flights would drop their bombs first and then pulled up to cover the rest of the formation.

Something like that might be a good workaround for the issue of AI mainly attacking AA defense, instead of the real target. Give the player's flight the order to attack the AAA to prepare the main attack and then let them fly cover. The problem would be, to make the main formation attack the main target instead of simply turning circles over the target. It is simply annoying, when you have the order to attack ground troops and all your squadmates are attacking is the AA defense. But if your flight has the order to prepare the main attack, it would make sense.

[PatrickAWlson]

5 hours ago, Yogiflight said:

Something like that might be a good workaround for the issue of AI mainly attacking AA defense, instead of the real target. Give the player's flight the order to attack the AAA to prepare the main attack and then let them fly cover. The problem would be, to make the main formation attack the main target instead of simply turning circles over the target. It is simply annoying, when you have the order to attack ground troops and all your squadmates are attacking is the AA defense. But if your flight has the order to prepare the main attack, it would make sense.

 

I changed the AAA to be not engageable.  That might have its own issues but it does make the AI attack other targets.