Killing a parked bomber...

[IAF.AssafB]

Hi,

I'm working on a airfield-attack mission where there are some Tu-95 bombers parked on the ground and are primary targets.

Problem is: it is extremely difficult to actually have those planes killed!:wallbash:

Even when dropping bombs or shooting at them with a 30mm cannon to a point where the wings are blown off the fuselage - the bomber is still "alive"...

Using a "unit damaged" trigger is problematic since it will be set true even if the target aircraft has a minor scratch (took a small caliber bullet i.e....:crash:)

I also tried setting a trigger like:

Condition "unit damage" (target) => action "Explode unit (Target), (explosion value)"

The problem with this method is that if the explosion value is high enough to actually kill the aircraft, it is also powerful enough to damage other target bombers parked nearby. This actually causes a chain of explosions which - although nice to see - is not realistic if the target bombers are parked in spaced, protected parking slots.

Any ideas would be welcomed!

Thanks in advance,

Assaf.

[shagrat]

Disregard, seems you tried that with no success...

 

Unit live less than 60% > Unit explode 5...

"simulates" an internal explosion.

:music_whistling:

[Dudikoff]

The problem with this method is that if the explosion value is high enough to actually kill the aircraft, it is also powerful enough to damage other target bombers parked nearby. This actually causes a chain of explosions which - although nice to see - is not realistic if the target bombers are parked in spaced, protected parking slots.

Any ideas would be welcomed!

 

Did you try playing with different explosion values?

[Winston 60]

It's always been more difficult to destroy flyable aircraft when they are sitting on the ground so if you can add your parked bombers as static objects, they are then rather easily dispatched with a 500lb dumb bomb or two, or cannon hits.

Edited March 10, 2017 by Winston 60

[DarkFire]

It's always been more difficult to destroy flyable aircraft when they are sitting on the ground so if you can add your parked bombers as static objects, they are then rather easily dispatched with a 500lb dumb bomb or two, or cannon hits.

 

This. Parked 'active' aircraft have ridiculous amounts of health and will take about as much damage as a buried bunker to destroy. Unless you need them to react in some way, or for the survivors to take off or similar, using static aircraft objects gives them a much more realistic health value and they're much more realistically susceptible to damage.

[SUNTSAG]

Hi There,

 

If you don't wish to use static aircraft why not reduce the AI bombers health to around 40 to 50% that seems to work well for me. Just tried a Gau8 run on a row of 95s with a sound trigger linked to unit dead and hey presto destroyed...... took two runs at 50% health setting but worked none the less. :thumbup:

 

cheers

[feefifofum]

Dumb fix but maybe worth mentioning...sometimes the obvious stuff just slips by..can you use UNIT'S HEALTH LESS THAN instead of UNIT DEAD for your success condition? You won't have smoking craters but the guy with his wing shot off on the ramp will count as dead that way.

 

Good call on the starting health, too, SUNTSAG...that one didn't occur to me. :thumbup:

[IAF.AssafB]

Thanks for all the inputs everyone,

Indeed, I somehow overlooked the "Unit's life less than" condition:idiot:

After some experimentation I found the following setup as the most suitable:

Units life less than 80% => action Explode unit (volume 150) + set trigger value.

When the bomber gets some hits (GAU-8...) It activates whatever trigger needed + gives a nice explosion but not too powerful so as not to damage any other parked bomber which is not too close by (at least one parking slot away).

 

I'll upload the mission if/when finished :pilotfly:,

 

Thanks!

Assaf.

[IAF.AssafB]

Just a followup,

With the help from the folks here I was able to complete "Operation Moked"

Once you get past the enemy defenses and start strafing at the parked TU-95's, watching them go up in flames is a real fun:thumbsup:

 

Mission thread is at:

https://forums.eagle.ru/showthread.php?t=185183

 

Thanks again :thumbup:

 

Assaf.