Air Farce Follies - Friendly Fire Isn't

runequester · #1 May 1st, 2009, 01:29 AM

Im sure it was a one in a billion thing

In the original SP, I once lost a T34 to a stray 81mm mortar shell. Not even a barrage of the things either. Just a single mortar, firing a single shell.

Never seen anything like it since, and that was years ago. I joked that it must have fallen down the hatch or something. i just attract weird luck.

What was maddening about that Korea scenario was that it seemed whenever the planes did shoot up the enemy, they'd insist on only targeting the exact hex they were aimed at, even if that only held 2 infantry guys, with a T34 within a hex or two because it had moved. But when they decided to strafe my guys instead, they'd meticulously pick out the best targets

Maybe they were communist sympathizers.

Suhiir · #2 May 1st, 2009, 03:14 PM

I've tended to notice that myself.
When you get a blue-on-blue the seem to have an uncanny ability to pick the worst place/unit for the player to hit, whereas when they do hit the opposition they'll often pick the least valuable target in the area.

Humm....
Could it be all pilots have been secretly subverted by commies?

runequester · #3 May 1st, 2009, 08:56 PM

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Originally Posted by Suhiir

Could it be all pilots have been secretly subverted by commies?

but what when it happens to soviet airstrikes?

gila · #4 May 1st, 2009, 11:55 PM

You know the old adage "damn them flyboys"
But they only hit what you grunts tell them to.
If the target moves and grunts lost sight or friendlies move into or close to the target zone,
and forget to call off or change the orders.
Then who's fault is it really

Imp · #5 May 2nd, 2009, 01:27 AM

Fair point gila if its a fast moving target you do not have eyeballs on it or its a short attack run (vision restricted)calling in a strike with your forces nearby is asking for trouble. If he cant find the target will do his best to fire at something & that could be you especially if you have vehicles that moved that go nearby.

Suhiir · #6 May 2nd, 2009, 12:34 PM

Check the first post in this thread.

My observer (a scout not a "real" FO) had a clear line-of-sight down a road at the target area and my aircraft veered 15 hexes from the target hex and hit my observer.

I have no clue how the probability of a mis-targeted airstrike is calculated, and that instance was a VERY non-typical mis-target, but somewhere in the zillions of random calculations the possibility of such an absurd result exists. While I was, of course, less then happy with it at the time that sort of one-in-a-million result is one of the things that keeps WinSPMBT interesting.

While you can accurately predict the AI will do a lemming charge you can't always be sure where, when, or with what.

Imp · #7 May 2nd, 2009, 04:36 PM

It is those one offs that you remember & like you say it should be that way. Maybe your scout gave his co ords by mistake

Its like the guy that just has to hit to live & misses with a 97% shot or the BRDM-2 I hit with an ATGM & 3 tank rounds causing it to retreat, it was still mobile!!!! Trialing some new fangled anti HEAT armour I feel

gila · #8 May 2nd, 2009, 06:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Suhiir

Check the first post in this thread.

My observer (a scout not a "real" FO) had a clear line-of-sight down a road at the target area and my aircraft veered 15 hexes from the target hex and hit my observer.

I have no clue how the probability of a mis-targeted airstrike

Are you using airstrikes like bombers?
You said target area,did you have a target? or just a area that you wanted the airstrike to attack?