Mission 13

[tsgucci]

On thing I have realised in M13. At the first engagement WEED is not helping  I order him to engage the group in front of us (South Group as sorted from CAJUN) but Weed turns to North to engage the other group.

[baltic_dragon]

Impossible, north group is set to invisible. Then again... everything is possible with DCS AI 

[tsgucci]

Nothing is impossible
Actually I forgot to tell that the way I knew that he is attacking the other group because I have seen it in the SA page. He had dotted lines towards the North Group.

[Jayhawk1971]

Tried M13 yesterday, and Weed never launched. He was "stuck" on the Cat (Cat 3 IIRC from a quick F2 outside view check??). 

I'll try again later today and report back whether this was a one-time hickup or if it's reproduceable.

Edit: on second try, Weed did launch and join up. 

Edited September 1, 2022 by Jayhawk1971

[baltic_dragon]

Let me know if he engaged his targets as he should!

[Jayhawk1971]

For me, he did not engage the first time the option was presented (or I was too fast killing the southern group myself). Second engagement, he did engage with Sidewinder (9L?)...

...albeit too late for me, because I was going down in flames by the time he engaged. He did avenge me, though.  

[baltic_dragon]

I just checked - for me he did attack correctly the first group with Amraams. 

[Jayhawk1971]

I finally completed the mission (successfully), Weed again did not engage the first group, but I'm pretty certain that's just me blasting the Floggers too quickly (I'm in TWS, so with both of them bugged, I just shoot at both). He probably would simply need more time to engage.

He did engage the "Brushbacks", though. This time I tucked in behind Weed about 2 miles and let him get off the first shot (figured he still has his Aim-120's, he should probably use 'em  ), so I was in a better position to take on Brushback No. 2.

Spoiler

Just out of curiosity: he seems to get hit during the engagement with the first Flanker; it looked like they shot each other with heaters. Is this a triggered event? In other words, had I somehow taken out both Flankers with my Sidewinders, would Weed have not been hit? Or will that happen in any case? One can never be too sure with your elaborate mission design.  

 

Edited September 4, 2022 by Jayhawk1971

[baltic_dragon]

Thanks for the report. I did make some updates to this mission for the next patch, but in my tests Weed did what he was supposed to. 

Spoiler

As for the flankers - the mission will play out differently if he is hit and if he is not, there are different options built into it. And then another set of options if you want to do the AAR on the way back or not...

 

Edited September 5, 2022 by baltic_dragon

[Guican]

In my case WEED attacked north group with 3 120 and then turned back for the south group.

Edited November 15, 2023 by Guican

[baltic_dragon]

I'll have a look and update everything when doing the overhaul of the campaign, like for Raven One -which I already started working on!