ESCORT / FOLLOW - option to escort / follow opposite coalition.

[RWC]

Hi Developers,

Would like to request a added TASK to escort / follow enemy aircraft as a task option.

Now one can ONLY follow or escort a plane from the same coalition. 

BLUE AI -> Task : Follow / Escort -> RED AI.

If there IS a way to do this bypassing the basic option by script or any other way, please add in the comment.

 

Thanks.

RWC.

Edited May 11, 2023 by RWC
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[markom]

+1; yes, please! this would open up possibilities for some really interesting missions.

[Exorcet]

Yes this is necessary, one very obvious use case is recreating Cold War intercepts. And we know this already works in DCS, but requires some trickery to intentionally build into a mission.

 

In general we need to reduce restrictions on tasks and AI options.

[markom]

Hm... Can you share the trickery you mentioned? I have one idea how to make it but that probably won't work well.

[Gigafiga]

Trick:

-Blue follow blue

-change 1 in red

 

blue will follow red

[RWC]

Thanks Gigafiga,

sounds logical and will try it in a few.....

[Exorcet]

16 hours ago, markom said:

Hm... Can you share the trickery you mentioned? I have one idea how to make it but that probably won't work well.

Like Gigafiga mentioned, if you change a unit from one side to the other, the follow task remains.

[markom]

Can you teach me magic of how to change unit coalition on the fly? Or is it despawn/spawn thing?

[Exorcet]

2 hours ago, markom said:

Can you teach me magic of how to change unit coalition on the fly? Or is it despawn/spawn thing?

You can change which countries are part of which coalition in the ME. The button for this is on the left, above the green fly button.

So:

Set Country A and Country B to Blue

Set plane from Country B to follow plane from Country A

Set Country A to Red

Blue Country B plane will now be set to follow Red Country A plane

[markom]

12 hours ago, Exorcet said:

You can change which countries are part of which coalition in the ME. The button for this is on the left, above the green fly button.

So:

Set Country A and Country B to Blue

Set plane from Country B to follow plane from Country A

Set Country A to Red

Blue Country B plane will now be set to follow Red Country A plane

Oh wow... That... didn't cross my mind. A wonderful trick, indeed!

[dggoofy]

Hi,

I'm on last Stable DCS 2.8.4 and I see a odd issue : we cannot set the command "Follow" and select a airplane from the other color (Red follows blue) in the Group. To solve it, I have to select a country from the same side, then select the plane I want the AI to follow, then I can turn back to the bandit country.

Am I clear enough ?

 

Cheers

DG-Goofy

[draconus]

Not a bug - just missing functionality or unneeded restriction.

It's on the wishlist:

[markom]

This was recently discussed in a few threads. There is a workaround:

 

A to follow B:

• Create unit A in BLUE
• Create unit B in BLUE
• Create task for A to follow B
• Change unit B to RED

 

[WirtsLegs]

Yeah as stated above there are some workarounds, which makes the limit purely related to the mission editor.

 

I would love to see this limitation removed