A-10 Wingman Commands

[dwpenney]

I have spent the last few hours playing through mission 6 of the A-10 campaign, trying to keep my wingman alive and operational and get him to contribute to the mission without dying. That is proving difficult :-)

 

In other missions it was possible to ask him to complete mission and rejoin, let him launch a couple of weapons (1 or 2 depending on the risk facing us in the missions) and have him rejoin. Basically I could interrupt his AI routines before he over committed himself.

 

Mission 6 was particularly difficult to use him effectively given the enveloping nature of the low level SAM threats. My strategy was to approach from the S and slowly coax the SAMs into revealing their positions, then either knocking them out myself or trying to get him to do it (couldn't ground stabilize in a good place to let him free).

 

Once the S SAMs were dealt with, the SAM or two around the target area (truck page/supply depot) were harder to coax into revealing themselves and asking my wingman to attack always ended with him dying.

 

So. Questions :-)

 

1) How can I get him (if there is a way) to standoff instead of getting in close to kill the trucks (MAVs instead of cluster/dumb bombs)?

2) On RTB he parks instead of sticking with me to rearm - is there a procedure that someone knows for this?

3) Can I get him to orbit at a waypoint (the only request I can see is for him to resume which does not seem to 'work')?

4) A way to order him to attack air defenses and not have him high tail it to the N to KO the SA-11s that will pwn his arse?

 

Suggestions? Help?

 

Fridge

[Ven]

I believe for #3, you can select a waypoint and order him to vector to waypoint. 1, 2, and 4, I've tried and never works. Only way to get some use out of my wingman was to jump in his cockpit and fly it myself.