[WAD] B811 Deadly SAMs

[ComDev]

Gave B810 a spin, and I'm seeing the same thing you did.

Weird, when opening the manual weapon alloc window the SA-21 report as 'Green' but they do not fire. This gotta be an error.

Will dig into tonight when back from work, dojo and kids are in bed [8D]

Thanks!

[ComDev]

Found it [8D]

The SA-21 is on an AAW Patrol mission, the 'Investigate contacts outside patrol area' flag is not set, and the patrol area is really small. What happened in B810 and earlier was that the SAM site would only target (and thus engage) contacts that enterd the tiny patrol area.

In B811 I changed the aircraft targeting logics so that air targets are engaged out to max weapon range, even when outside the patrol area. This fixes the ambush issue that was reported recently.

As such, the behaviour you see is intended and works correctly [8D]

If you want the AI to engage targets at shorter ranges, please use WRA.

Thanks!

[goodwoodrw]

Thanks for the reply. Does this mean I going to have to think of way to clean those SAMs as the NATO air commander, or is there an unrealistic number of SAMs in my ground group?

[ComDev]

Its probably both, are terribly many SAM units there. How many are used IRL for an army unit of this size?

[goodwoodrw]

Honestly I have no idea. This purely a test scenario to test your additions etc etc, when I first built it the ground forces were getting cream so kept adding SAM units now with B811 I will have to take them away and start all over. [:D]

[ComDev]

Yeah just one SA-15 or SA-17 regt at divisional level plus a few SA-19 units may be enough. Possibly SA-12 regt at Corps/Army level, IIRC. Needs to be researched though.