Bomber formation possible ?

[Luftan]

Hello.

 

I always had an idea to take on a massive bomber formation as a mission in DCS. Not so realistic in modern combat, but with the B29 mod & Mig15bis avilable.. it makes sense.

 

Making formation is not so hard. But the problem is that each bomber ditches its assigned waypoint and start taking evasive maneuvers when intercept starts. ED added an option to set AI`s behavior, but fiddling around with "reaction" tab in advanced waypoint option doesnt seem to do anything.

 

Is there any way to make this possible?

Thanks in advance. :helpsmilie:

[feefifofum]

I haven't had much luck getting aircraft with turrets to hold course and still fire on hostiles...it seems unless ROE is set to hold the unit will still perform evasive manuevers, and I'd imagine you want your bombers to be able to shoot back...

Leave a post if you find something though!

[Stonehouse]

I had some marginal success by assigning escorts to the individual B29s with orders to intercept bandits (escort task) out around 12-15kms. It seems to mean that the escort peels off and engages the enemy before the B29 AI gets spooked and starts evading. It does just delay things as if enough enemies attack then eventually the escorts are already engaged and then the B29s begin to take evasive action when the enemy gets close. The escort task itself takes a bit of fiddling to get the x,y,z offset right so be prepared to be patient.

[feefifofum]

Another way to fake it might be to set a flag to keep the bombers' ROE as weapon hold unless a bandit closes within a quarter mile or so, building on Stonehouse's thought...I've used this with success to keep a TU-22 on course and since the MiGs don't pose a missile threat things might work out okay.

Edited February 26, 2016 by feefifofum