Giving Attack aircraft an AI Escort

[kraszus]

What file can I edit to ensure that my Attack / Raider aircraft (in my case Mosquito) are given a chance (or a greater chance) of having an escort on Attack / Raider missions in the same way Bombers are for Bombing missions? I'm not a great dog-fighter and prefer flying Attack missions in my bomb laden Mosquito and rely on escorts to get me to the primary.

[PatrickAWlson]

 Player attack flights are always provided an escort.

[kraszus]

58 minutes ago, PatrickAWlson said:

 Player attack flights are always provided an escort.

When I generate a PWCG mission with a Raider role flying a Mosquito, there is nothing in the briefing that suggests we have an escort. In the waypoints map screen, there are other flight groups, but none designated as our escort or flying our flightpath. But if I fly a bomber aircraft on a bombing mission, the briefing includes an escort, which is also visible on the briefing waypoints map.

 

EDIT:

Changed the Advanced Config to show all squadrons. Just generated a Raider mission with a flight of Mosquitos and sure enough I now see a Rendez-Vous waypoint. However, of the squadrons shown, one is a Ground Attack mission in the same area and I'm not sure if the Escort Squadron is for them or me. Still doesn't mention on the initial briefing that I have an escort though in the way bombing missions state  'You will be escorted by xxx'.

 

EDIT2:

Just flew the attached mission and followed flight lead (I'm flying as a wingman til I improve  )to the rendez-vous waypoint and no escort showed up. Mission attached. I'm obviously doing something wrong or missing something.

PWCG.zip

Edited February 9, 2024 by kraszus

[Charon]

No, I'm seeing the same thing as @kraszus: I generated a 4th squadron co-op campaign in may 1944. For Raider type missions, it appears escorts are never generated; for train-buster missions a little more than half have escorts, and for for maritime strike, less than half have escorts. This still holds true after adjusting all of the escort-chance fields in Mission Limits to 100. (I also reduced the escort chance to 0, and saw that missions were still sometimes generated with escorts... so I think this parameter may not have any effect)

 

I also modified the squadron profile (4 Squadron.json) to give 'ROLE_ATTACK' 100% weight; even with this change, the generated attack missions still only sometimes have escorts.

[kraszus]

@Charon As an interim fix, I've edited the 4th Squadron Json file to allow a bomber role. I then choose Mission With Role (Bomber) and many of the missions are similar to Raider...Train Yards, etc. I then adjust any waypoints back to ~4000 ft (my preferred dive bombing altitude) instead of the standard bombing altitude of ~9000 ft. It's a messy short-term fix but, in the meantime, guarantees an escort. Json attached.

Mosquito 4 Sqn BOMB Role.zip

[PatrickAWlson]

My bad.  Raider missions and night missions are not escorted.  If you take raider missions out of your squadron role and stick with ground attack you will be escorted.