Help with close airsupport WW2 mission

[Gunfreak]

I tried making a simple CAS mission, I have 3 US Squads in some woods, with some Sherman support, being attacked by  6 or 7 squads of germans, with a halftrack and 6 stugs in support. I have some german units only fiering on the americans, but also 3 squads have orders to attack. 

Problem 1 and 2, only 1 or 2 of the german soldiers fire, the rest just stand around. And the 3 squads I've ordered to attack US groups don't move.
The armor and halftrack does attack.

Problem 3, I have 4 P47s in CAS, at Waypoint 3 they are suppoed to search and engage, armor first, then infantry. 
The P47s drops a couple of bombs then go off doing what ever, one seems to try and land in some fields, others just fly around, still loaded with bombs and rockets. 

 

Problem 4. The mission lags even when just trying it out, as spectator, it's not that much going on.
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close air support.miz

Edited August 17, 2021 by Gunfreak

[Callsign112]

Sorry I am traveling so not able to check any of this out with you at the moment, but I know there are a lot of people here with a lot more experience than me anyway so I wanted to just ask, do the soldiers that just stand around have a clear line of sight to the American soldiers? And the 3 squads that have been ordered to attack, did you give them a way point to follow?

 

 

[JimBo*]

5 hours ago, Gunfreak said:

I tried making a simple CAS mission, I have 3 US Squads in some woods, with some Sherman support, being attacked by  6 or 7 squads of germans, with a halftrack and 6 stugs in support. I have some german units only fiering on the americans, but also 3 squads have orders to attack. 

Problem 1 and 2, only 1 or 2 of the german soldiers fire, the rest just stand around. And the 3 squads I've ordered to attack US groups don't move.
The armor and halftrack does attack.

Problem 3, I have 4 P47s in CAS, at Waypoint 3 they are suppoed to search and engage, armor first, then infantry. 
The P47s drops a couple of bombs then go off doing what ever, one seems to try and land in some fields, others just fly around, still loaded with bombs and rockets. 

 

Problem 4. The mission lags even when just trying it out, as spectator, it's not that much going on.
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close air support plane fix.miz

close air support plane fix.miz

[Callsign112]

@Gunfreak, I really appreciate the learning curve your going through at the moment because I learn something new just about every time it open DCS to do a Combined Arms mission. DCS WWII is really amazing, and I couldn't be happier to encourage you to keep digging.

 

There are a lot of really good resources to choose from, so you just have to find what works best for you. The most important thing though is to just keep at it. The Mission Editor in DCS World is really quite powerful and feature rich, it is just a matter of learning how to tap into it.

 

The link video is not exactly what you are looking for, but it describes a number of different features in terms of setting up a mission that you can get the idea enough to apply it to what you want to do. If there is something missing, or something that you just can't get to work, keep asking questions here because someone has more than likely already traveled down that road.

 

 

[Callsign112]

Something else that might be useful to give your missions a more dynamic feel.

 

 

 

[Gunfreak]

9 hours ago, JimBo* said:

close air support plane fix.miz 17.63 kB · 2 downloads

close air support plane fix.miz 17.63 kB · 1 download

 

Thanks, so you have to do it the hard way.

 

But the mission was still very choppy, unplayable. Don't know why.

[JimBo*]

13 minutes ago, Gunfreak said:

 

Thanks, so you have to do it the hard way.

 

But the mission was still very choppy, unplayable. Don't know why.

runs fine for me. you may need to reduce the number of AI perhaps use a few "static" and see if it runs better.

not so bad if you create just one P-47 instead of a whole group. assign it a couple targets, then a waypoint with targets and do so till it uses all its ordinance. then copy, go an change the targets or the the order of the targets so they don't over lap test. then add more aircraft to each group if needed.

Edited August 18, 2021 by JimBo*