Why doesn't my wingman automatically engage targets (in certain situations)?

[martinistripes]

I'm not sure if this is Apache specific or across the board with all wingmen in DCS, but there are certain instances like when I'm being engaged with small arms, you'd expect your wingman to look out for you and kill the enemy that's engaging you. I just flew a liberation campaign mission and this very thing happened to me. I was being engaged, taking damage and (I'm not sure why) but my comms menu to talk with my wingman wasn't working. I couldn't tell him to 'engage ground targets'. In this situation though, I don't feel I should need to. Rather than help me out, he just continued to hover next to me whilst I was being shot to pieces, until eventually my pilot was killed. Not very intelligent.

A good wingman would surely get some suppressive fire down asap.

[BIGNEWY]

Hi, 

I will move this to wish list for now, but in the future we will look at expanding the capabilities of wingmen and / or George for calling out threats. 

thanks

 

[corbu1]

Maybe mit what you mean by getting help from your wingman, but did you try „Cover me“ order?

[martinistripes]

18 hours ago, corbu1 said:

Maybe mit what you mean by getting help from your wingman, but did you try „Cover me“ order?

In real life, you wouldn't need to tell your wingman, 'cover me'. If he sees, you taking fire, he's going to help you.

[corbu1]

Certainly true. It‘s definitly good having someone at your side helping you….

also I really wish some more AI funcionality in DCS, especially when it comes to helicopters.

My point was more dealing with the cover me as an workaround till AI gets better….