AI Tanks will not attack airplanes on ground--bug or feature?

[SCG_Limboski]

I designing a mission where a group of Soviet tanks attack a German airfield.  My problem is that I cannot get the Soviet tanks to attack grounded aircraft (linked entities) using an Attack Area MCU.  They will also not attack a plane using the Attack MCU or while on the move using a Waypoint MCU.  Is there a way to get this to work or am I doing something wrong? I have attached the mission.  

 

My impression is that the "air targets" of the Attack Area MCU dictates planes regardless of whether or not they are on the ground or in the air.  And tanks will NEVER engage "air targets" no matter what.  Of course, AAA vehicles will attack the planes on the ground with the attack and move MCUs.

 

(Another issue on the side is that enemy ground vehicles will also not engage linked static entities either but that's a different issue.)

 

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[SCG_Limboski]

I remember like over a year ago that when you attacked tanks from the air, they would sometimes fire back with their machine guns but I have not seen this behavior in a very long time.  After further testing, I cannot get tanks using their MGs (or secondary weapons) at all and they only fire their main cannon.  I personally think this is a new bug because I've seen tanks use their MGs before.

 

  Any unit that has a high firing weapon as its main weapon will fire at aircraft currently (e.g., halftracks with a single MG).

[IckyATLAS]

I would say it is a bug. Indeed the Tanks do not attack planes even when these are flying low and inrange and could be attacked with machine guns.

But tanks will not fire at all to planes that are parked. They will only attack enemy vehicles but with their cannon. I tried various tanks.

It seems that the machineguns are not used anymore. In the past I have made battles where machineguns were used.

So when a tank arrives at an enemy airfield he will spare all the planes, parked on the runway etc. which is absurd.

I will post something on the Bug section.

 

Some additional tests show that tanks will attack simple artillery like a dshk machine gun with the cannon and not the machinegun. But to hit such a small target you need many rounds in fact six rounds in total fired from two tanks which is ridiculous as it is on open flat field at a few hundred meters.

Both tanks have two machine guns but will not use it. And as usual both tanks do not attack planes at all.

[SCG_Limboski]

I posted to the bugs forum.