What Is Wrong With The Tico's???

[Lanzfeld]

I made a mission to watch where 4 SU-30's attack 1 carrier with 2 ticonderoga escorts. The ships are all seperate groups but in formation. The SU's launch KH-31P's from max range so the missles go way up high on the way to the ships. Now there are 8 missles inbound and the Tico's (excellent) will NOT launch against the inbound missles. The carrier will throw up a few Aim-7M's but the Tico's will only use the CIWS but no missles. Did the Developers nerf the U.S. ships to make the Russians look better or am I doing something wrong? A pair of Tico's can easily handle 8 high missles in real life.

 

Also...I did make the U.S. 1 group but then 1 of the Tico's would not do ANYTHING. This is strange.

Edited March 23, 2010 by Lanzfeld

[Lanzfeld]

Ahhh....

 

I did some searching and see that the Ticonderogas can only put up 2 missles at a time. Mine were throwing up SIM-66 at the attacking aircraft. I guess this is the reason. I hope this gets fixed as you can "lure" the Ticos easily this way.

[Lanzfeld]

Nope. I tested some more. Even when my Tico's were not shooting missles at the attacking planes they would not shoot missles at the inbound KH-31P's. Why is it that the carrier will shoot down inbound missles from aircraft but the Tico's will not? I even changed the ships group to just a single, excellent Tico and no missles were shot.

 

Something really wrong here.

[104th_Crunch]

Try placing a US AWACs in the mission. I think that may help, but i can't recall for sure.

[Grimes]

I think when you add a carrier to the mix the ship AI gets kind of weird. I noticed it in Black Shark also. They tend to rely on the carrier because its the strongest ship there. Try putting them in a different group from the carrier or even just deleting the carrier from themission and see what happens. I've seen Tico's shoot at Aircraft and missiles plenty of times. On one of the 3sqn missions it happens constantly. I've got a Molinya within range of a Tico and it keeps firing Kh-41's at it and the Tico does engage the missiles.