Formation issue Career mode

[JG4_Moltke1871]

I start a career as III/KG55 squad leader on Kuban.

After take off and climb I order my squad to „Keilformation“ (Wedge formation?). But every checkpoint the change back to Formation „Staffelung Rechts“ (Graduation on the right?).

Even when I reach the target and the Voice announced „Position halten, Abwurf auf Befehl“ ("Hold position, release on command") the squad change the position. This makes an accurate Bomb run impossible, and the wrong announcement is confusing because the squad do the opposite in real. Is this an mistake in the program?

[Eisenfaustus]

When you are the Gruppenkommandeur you can edit the waypoint in the HQ tab before starting the mission.

 

Other than that I feel leading AI - especially bombers - quite unsatisfying because they usually don't follow orders as I wish them to.

 

In Bomber Career I tend to set an AI pilot as formation leader und take the last position in the roster myself and then Fly ahead as some kind of pathfinder...

 

When lead by AI they usually at least attack...

 

Also I change altitude HQ Tab - 2000m is to low in my opinion

[Ram399]

The default formation for bomber flights with the He-111 in career mode should be the V-formation to begin with, but the AI will follow whatever formation is dictated by the mission waypoints unless told otherwise after each consecutive waypoint.

What it sounds like is happening is that your waypoints have been set to right edge formation somehow and that is why they keep changing.
I'm not sure how this might have occurred, but luckily as the unit commander you have the ability to change the formation settings for each waypoint prior to starting the mission.

In order to do this go into the Headquarters tab of the career mode menu and click on the flight path of the next mission (it should appear initially as a gold line to the target).
Once you click on the gold line the actual flight path you will be following will pop out and show the waypoint information.
From there its a matter of clicking on each waypoint and selecting the V-Formation option.

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If this doesn't solve the problem then I'm not sure what else could be going on.

[JG4_Moltke1871]

9 minutes ago, Ram399 said:

The default formation for bomber flights with the He-111 in career mode should be the V-formation to begin with, but the AI will follow whatever formation is dictated by the mission waypoints unless told otherwise after each consecutive waypoint.

What it sounds like is happening is that your waypoints have been set to right edge formation somehow and that is why they keep changing.
I'm not sure how this might have occurred, but luckily as the unit commander you have the ability to change the formation settings for each waypoint prior to starting the mission.

In order to do this go into the Headquarters tab of the career mode menu and click on the flight path of the next mission (it should appear initially as a gold line to the target).
Once you click on the gold line the actual flight path you will be following will pop out and show the waypoint information.
From there its a matter of clicking on each waypoint and selecting the V-Formation option.

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If this doesn't solve the problem then I'm not sure what else could be going on.

 

Wow, quick answer ?

I didn’t know this option so far…. I will check out next missions.

@Ram399 @Eisenfaustus Thanks a lot, great community here ????

Edited October 25, 2021 by JG4_Moltke1871