COIN stikes WAY off target

[Skotty702]

Is there any chance of tightening up the area of engagement for COIN stikes? I just had another bad PBEM run where my Mig-21 COIN planes hit my arty park.

I plotted the ingress from the opposite end of the map,planes took NO AA fire, yet dropped hurt on my mortar park that was over 70+ plus hexes (over 3km I think) from the plot hex. My FO could not see the hill top where the stike was to take place, but being this far off target is silly IMO. I fully expect to have issues of friendly fire from air to a certain extent, but 3km?

The only real success I have had with COIN planes is if I have NO soft units on my side.

I know if there is no LOS to target, you are taking a risk, but I don't see why things should drift this far outta whack. Especially in a prepared assault battles against know fixed defensive postions on prominent terrain features.

I know this would be really a pain to code, but it would be nice to establish a no fire zone on the map for friendly airstikes. The map we are playing on has very obvious terrain features, with hills in the NW and a city in the SE, on the other side of a river. This is where my mortars are postioned, in the city. I would think it would be in the realm of reality in a prepared assault that the assigned airstrikes would know that anything in the city is friendly and not drop ordinance in that area. Just a thought.

Thanks
Scott

[Pyros]

Hi Scotty,

In order to avoid such an unlucky event (friendly fire) you may assign the entry point of the airstrike to be a different one... Like for example the enemy side!

friendly yours,
Pyros

p.s Hope you doing fine

[Skotty702]

Opposite end as I stated was the enemy side.

[Pyros]

Then, you could experiment with the exit direction (diagonal zone)... LOL

[Skotty702]

I did that too. lol

[Pyros]

In a more precise analysis:

When an airplane is doing a blind airstrike then if it follows a diagonal route it will travel 40% more time inside the enemy control zone, which means an increase of 40% in its ability to spot a valid target.

cheers,
Pyros