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This is one of the most common complaints about CFS2...my wingmen and the AI won't attack.  :-/

Well, I got news. There's a lot you can do to correct that, and we'll be talking about it in this thread....so get set. 

Before you decide that you have a problem to correct there are a couple of things to consider:

- You have to assign an attack on the objective to your flight or the AI flight in MB.

Once you have established that your mission is setup to avoid the pitfalls mentioned above, and you still have a problem with your wingmen and/or AI flights performing assigned attacks. the corrective action needed will be in the AIRCRAFT.CFG file, the AIR file or the DP file...or all of them.

The two settings (or groups of settings) that you have to check are the aircraft's 'family'/ 'category' in the MISC section of the DP file and the MOI settings in the CFG file/AIR file.

Some examples:

I watch my wingman strafe enemy gunboat.


I observe my wingman downing an LA-11.


AI flight of F-84s destroys coastal freighter.

Wading through this thread may seem more worth it, if you see the kind of results you can get.

Moving right along....

Here is a list of aircraft families and categories used in the MISC section of the DP file.

A last note on assigning targets to wingmen for attack.

According to the book, giving the Attack Command three times in succession will cause your entire filight to attack the objective assigned in MB.

I can also recommend the AI/Wingman Flight Tuning Tutorial that you can download here:

http://simviation.com/1/download?file=AI_Flight_Tuning.zip

I can also highly recommend Cody Coyote's Mission Building Handbook available on this page (get the 15MB complete version):

Hmmmmm, TR.  I could actually acquire CFS2 skills reading stuff like your tute and Cody's manifesto.   [smiley=dankk2.gif]

Thanks by this tutorial Tango!
Many years ago when I played CFS2 for the first time (9 years ago?) I dropped the game after some months because i never understood well the AI attacks...true..this was a big drawnback for me.

Two months ago I reinstalled the CFS2 and learned correctly (by trial and error) how to "play" with the AI attacks and the game is very, very good for my taste now. Interesting is that I did not anything, just learned correctly how the AI attacks behave and then achieve to get it correctly all the time that I want. Exactly as you describe oon the first part of this tuto.

Anyhow, the main problem that you describe: "how the Ai maneuver it

Thanks for the kind words, Rubini.   It's good to know that the effort is helpful.  8-)

Great Stuff, TR!  I'm just getting into this and this couldn't have come at a better time.

Cheers!