AI bombing help.

[Mike_CK]

Ok…I get the AI acts in mysterious ways, but I’m hoping there is something im doing wrong. Playing a “liberation” campaign in the F-4 (1973 Sinai). My AI wingman and I are supposed to bomb a string of 6 fuel tank things and a building. I load it into the editor and - for the ingress waypoint containing the bombing commands- I deleted the 6 separate bombing commands (one for each tank) and replaced it with one bombing command for the building and the second located between 2 tanks (you will see why).

AI wingman armed with 8 mk-83’s. I edited the first bomb command

from “Auto” to “iron bomb” and for amount I selected “half” for the second bombing command I selected “iron bombs” and for amount I selected “all”. Figured that 4 mk-83s would take out both the tanks. Hit “group attack” for both

Told AI wingman to execute his mission. The result was my AI wingman flying over the first bomb point and dropping exactly one bomb. I told him again to execute his mission and he proceeded to fly around hitting all the waypoints (was a waypoint on each tank from liberation but none had commands). 
 

long way to say: how do I get a wingman (or AI) to drop ALL or HALF of their bombs on a point instead of just one. I didn’t want him making 6 different runs (one over each tank) and wanted him to make one over the building and release the rest In one run over the string of tanks.  “

 

[mkel2010]

This video might help:

Make sure to check out his other tutorials as well.

[NineLine]

Hi, did you get this sorted? If not include your mission and issue you are seeing and I can take a look, thanks. 

[Mike_CK]

On 9/3/2024 at 2:33 PM, NineLine said:

Hi, did you get this sorted? If not include your mission and issue you are seeing and I can take a look, thanks. 

Let me take a look at the video above first to see if that helps. I appreciate the offer 

the more i think about it, the issue might have been self-preservation. I had the AI come in low (500”) and- as the bombs were slick mk-83s, it may have been that a bomb on target would damage the aircraft itself flying over . Is that something the AI is programmed to do? Not drop if the bomb will go off to close ?

Edited September 7, 2024 by Mike_CK