Use of air power

[thatguy96]

If you go into the unit info screen before selecting aircraft for a strike, you should be able to "turn off" any ordnance you want.

I also would have thought that only if there were more iron bombs than CBUs it would've continued bombing. It has at least been my experience that aircraft fire one shot per weapon slot in each hex (that is if there all four weapon slots are bombs, then it should drop four bombs in each hex, until all bombs in all slots are exhausted). If there are more bombs in one slot than others it would then continue to drop until they were all expended or the aircraft reached the edge of the map.

I feel like this has come up before recently, but after the most recent patch.

[secretgeek]

Lots of advice! Thanks everyone.

Just fired up the same scenario and tried experimenting. Things learnt are:

Switching off weapons helps.

If the strike plane spots a valid target for it's mavericks it will do a stand off attack and miss out the bombing run altogether! Still as long as it kills something I don't mind, though in the last experiment it one A10 used 2 mavericks to kill 2 men in a Strela team (an effective use of resources?)

Looks like I'll just have to put more thought into what I want, where and when. Switching off weapons will allow me to do that.

Thanks again!

[secretgeek]

Oh and it does use all 4 iron bombs at once.

Ta.

[iCaMpWiThAWP]

Originally Posted by secretgeek

Lots of advice! Thanks everyone.

Just fired up the same scenario and tried experimenting. Things learnt are:

Switching off weapons helps.

If the strike plane spots a valid target for it's mavericks it will do a stand off attack and miss out the bombing run altogether! Still as long as it kills something I don't mind, though in the last experiment it one A10 used 2 mavericks to kill 2 men in a Strela team (an effective use of resources?)

Looks like I'll just have to put more thought into what I want, where and when. Switching off weapons will allow me to do that.

Thanks again!

killing AAA/SAM might be good if you plan subsequent strikes, and are you sure that your A/C had bombs/rockets or ammo? If it does it will proceed the run