Stratos Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 I will like a friendly chopper (in this case a Mi-8 HIP) to act as a AFAC and mark targets for me using smoke rockets, I tried to use search and attack in zone, but as soon as the AI chopper flys over that point it does nothing and return to base. Is there any way I can make friendly AI choppers to search for enemy ground groups and mark them with smoke? Thanks. I don't understand anything in russian except Davai Davai!
Rapier-VCG- Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 Think you need to set the enemy ground group as its target at that waypoint with orders to attack group in zone and create a zone of operations.
Stratos Posted February 12, 2015 Author Posted February 12, 2015 Think you need to set the enemy ground group as its target at that waypoint with orders to attack group in zone and create a zone of operations. Can you explain that please? I don't understand anything in russian except Davai Davai!
Stratos Posted February 13, 2015 Author Posted February 13, 2015 I made the infantry group the target for the chopper, and put the option search and attack group, but the Hip simply flys there and then RTB. I don't understand anything in russian except Davai Davai!
Belgeode Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 Stratos... I think I know what you are trying to do. I am going to attach a .miz to this reply here. Download it and tell me if this is what you are talking about. Pay close attention to what I did in the flight plan of the "Smoke marker" Helo, particularly around waypoint 2. I set the Helo's task as AFAC... If you don't it won't give you the right options to attack a target group. The helo should first make a pass to visually ID targets, then come back and put markers on them. I did notice one thing in this experiment. Since smoke markers cannot kill a tank or IFV, it will go through every single rocket it has marking the targets. Unless I put something to say, hey when out of ammo, or targets marked, go home... it will do it all day. LOL. What I did to fix that is told it to only attack for THREE minutes total on each group of targets (I placed 2 groups). STOP CONDITION / DURATION 3:00 That seemed to do the trick. I also set up a FARP at Kobuleti, where the mission starts, to make helo launch and recovery easier. Pick through what I have here and tell me if this is what you are trying to accomplish.Example For Stratos.miz [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] YouTube ~ Twitch
Stratos Posted February 16, 2015 Author Posted February 16, 2015 BelGeode thanks! Work as a charm and is what I intended. I don't understand anything in russian except Davai Davai!
Belgeode Posted February 16, 2015 Posted February 16, 2015 Cool beans. I am glad it worked out for ya! [sIGPIC][/sIGPIC] YouTube ~ Twitch
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