minor gripes and wishes for the qag

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i tried playing around with the new qag and while its clearly a big improvement over the old system i did find some issues while checking it out and using it.

firstly when i checked the bomber intercept and bomber escort mission types i couldnt seem to be able to set the bombers to be anything other than A-20Gs in any era or any map i own, interestingly enough i could set the escorts and other enemy AI to be more modern bombers like B-1Bs

i ran into my biggest issue with it so far when i tried to make my first ground attack mission. I originally intended to set up a simple strike on an artillery position with a few 2S3s and trucks as targets and a couple units for air defence but as soon as i spawned in i found my targets had just taken the road and were moving away from their intended position which then forced me to quit and take it to the mission editor where i learned they were heading to my airfield for some reason and had to manually set them to their proper intended behavior which just made me feel like it defeated the point of making the mission through the qag in the first place.

beyond the few issues i ran into i do really like the direction of the new system overall and i think the UI and the general way things are set up is very nice but it did leave me wishing for some extra features in some areas

at the moment i've mostly found myself wishing i could introduce enemy aircraft into ground attack/sead/antiship missions as air opposition and to maybe have a way to decouple other friendly air groups/air defence groups from the main player/target group so there can be more flexibility to choose different tasks for them or have them spawn in different places without needing to head into the mission editor and it's level of depth

this is definitely a step in the right direction for singleplayer and small scale coop gameplay in DCS and with just a little more work put into it and a little more fleshing out i think it could become something really neat, i hope to see it keep evolving in the future