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How do I...(fire multiple weapons) - 10/26/2020 2:43:30 PM

c3k

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Gents,

First, I'd like to get @mods to open up a new sub-forum, for "How do I..." questions. I hate spamming the main forum with questions like this, but neither is it appropriate for the Tech Support forum.

Just a thought.

Second...my question: Playing a Surface tutorial, I have three light cruisers/destroyers in a group (HMS Exeter, the Bremen, and...hmm). Anyway, between them, they have 16 Harpoons (8x on two ships). I want to Manually Target a single enemy ship with a salvo from two of my group.

I can allocate, say, 1 Harpoon from the first ship. That's fine.
When I select my 2nd ship and try to allocate two additional harpoons from its magazine, instead, the game adds to the number of harpoons allocated from the FIRST ship.

So, I want: ship 1, 1 harpoon; ship 2, 2 harpoons.
I get: ship 1, 3 harpoons.

I also need to figure out how to plot separate paths for the different missiles. I can plot ONE path, and that's it. I cannot plot separate ones for the salvo from the different ships.

Any suggestions?

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RE: How do I...(fire multiple weapons) - 10/26/2020 3:20:55 PM

thewood1

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To your first point, I think thats what this forum is for:

https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/tt.asp?forumid=1282

Are you using the manual attack button (shift-F1)?

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RE: How do I...(fire multiple weapons) - 10/26/2020 3:35:50 PM

thewood1

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I used a scenario I had handy to test. Using Shift-F1, I selected an ammo bunker. I then allocated one Tomahawk for it from a CGN. I then selected a DDG and allocated two Tomahawks.

As you can see in the box in the lower right, there are 2+1 Tomahawks allocated from the respective ships for the ammo bunker.

Is this what you are asking about?

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RE: How do I...(fire multiple weapons) - 10/26/2020 8:00:49 PM

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Thanks for checking. That's what I -thought- I should see, but that's not how it works. When I get home to my gaming rig, I'll take some screenshots and post a save or two.

(The War Room: yep, that seems like it'd fit. (Okay, the title did not, but reading some of the threads, that seems to be exactly what I was thinking of. ;) )

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RE: How do I...(fire multiple weapons) - 10/26/2020 8:25:12 PM

thewood1

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"Share your best strategies and tactics with other players by posting them here"

I would assume the opposite is true also.

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RE: How do I...(fire multiple weapons) - 10/26/2020 8:43:25 PM

thewood1

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Here is cut down scenario just to show its working as expected. The missiles are already allocated and when you hit start, it launches 2+1. If you check the magazines after launch The Tomahawks are decremented properly from each firing ship.

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RE: How do I...(fire multiple weapons) - 10/26/2020 8:51:22 PM

Parel803

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sorry wrong position

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RE: How do I...(fire multiple weapons) - 10/27/2020 2:38:09 AM

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quote:

ORIGINAL: c3k

Thanks for checking. That's what I -thought- I should see, but that's not how it works. When I get home to my gaming rig, I'll take some screenshots and post a save or two.

(The War Room: yep, that seems like it'd fit. (Okay, the title did not, but reading some of the threads, that seems to be exactly what I was thinking of. ;) )

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works

Definitely should not be working like that as thewood noted. If you find it really is, note the steps you're taking to reproduce it and maybe we can confirm a bug or edge case that needs to be handled. I do nothing but manual allocations and never seen such happen, unless of course I mistakenly select the same first ship again without noticing)

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RE: How do I...(fire multiple weapons) - 10/28/2020 12:42:50 PM

c3k

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Crap.

So, here's what I did wrong:

User error...and embarrassingly simple. Thanks.