Bug: Near infinite ATGM fire

[lukerduker123]

Howdy! So I was playing the CENTAG 75 campaign, using my helicopters and those lovely TOW missiles, when I noticed that they weren't consuming a shot every time they fired. By that I mean that they would fire a missile, it would hit, and it wouldn't count as a 'shot'. That is, I could fire all eight TOW missiles in a single turn, when I'm supposed to only fire one.


Now, after fiddling about I found out what the issue was. Whenever a unit's about to launch a missile a unit may return fire before it even fires. So, my helicopter would try to fire a missile at a target, but before it launches it draws reaction fire from, say, a BMP. That one BMP has just doomed eight of his buddies to an early grave. You can test it yourself. Unsure of whether or not it's just the AH-1Q or not, but it's quite easy to abuse this, as long as you just keep drawing pitifully useless reaction fire.

[Suhiir]

That sometimes happens. But unless you're playing WinSPMBT with unlimited ammo it isn't really a problem as they run out of on-board missiles fairly soon.

If you are playing with unlimited ammo ... well then you have to just live with the results.

[Steves308]

I've seen this occasionally, both helicopters and vehicles, though more from dedicated atgm vehicles, not really from things like a Bradley or BMP. And like Suhir says, you can run out of missiles pretty quickly if you take advantage of it. I will just fire the usual couple of shots and then move (since I am taking reaction fire ;^)

Steves308