Air Farce Follies - Friendly Fire Isn't

[DRG]

Originally Posted by Wdll

runequester, I hope the planes you sent to attack the mortars were not carrying AGMs and that you sent the planes from a side of the map that wasn't the back side of your army.

..........or through smoke. I'm familiar with the scenario in question because when it first came out we had comments like this and I ran the scenario and Andy ran the scenario and like someone else mentioned on one of these forums recently we wondered if we were playing the same game.

I doubt there is a save game of the turn the air strikes were plotted and when they were carried out but I'm betting they would explain a lot. It IS possible to carry out air attacks without ridiculous amounts of blue on blue. Most of the stories people tell like this I've NEVER encountered in all the years I've played and developed these games. I am NOT saying strange things never happen but reading this thread anyone would think this is SOP

I can see we need to explain air attack procedure a bit better in the game guide. ( and hope people read it....)





Don

[runequester]

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]

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]

Originally Posted by Suhiir

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

but what when it happens to soviet airstrikes?

[gila]

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]

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]

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.