Where did all the birdies go?

[NoseDive]

Hi guys. I've just discovered this forum and have to say that I was impressed by the helpfulness and high quality of the responses.

Anyway, grovelling aside, I have a couple of questions of my own:

1) I may just be having a 'senior moment' but I'm sure that, what I started using CFS3, airfields very often had a number of aircraft on the ground that could be 'shot up' for extra 'brownie points'. Every airfield that I see nowadays has none at all. I have added to my configuration of CFS3 a number of 1% aircraft, missions etc, along with many Groundcrew additions and applied the Microsoft recomended patches. Could these have affected it or have I just done something stupid(!?) Any advice would be much appreciated?

2) I read somewhere that you can designate specific targets on an airfield, hangars etc for your wingmen to attack. If this is true, please could somebody tell me how to do it, because my AI buddies all seem to want to go off and do their own thing.


Cheers! NoseDive  

[Smoke2much]

Welcome to the forum Nosedive.

I can't help with the first one but as for the second:

Your wingmen will attack whatever they like if you have nothing targeted and you press A (in groups of two).  If you have a target selected and press A two of your wingmen will attack that target.

If you cycle through the available targets and press A at your favourites you will get them to attack what you want.

Will

[Stormtropper]

Listen to sleep on the second one, but for the first, you have to be really close to those aircraft to be able to see them, and I wouldn't go after them because its easier just to shoot one out of the sky.  They are all in retrivements and its damn near impossible to destroy one, and plus I think they only count as ground targets, not air.

[NoseDive]

Thanks for the help with the targetting issue - I'll get the blighters licked into shape soon enough!

As to the ground aircraft - I do tend to fly very low indeed - even when dogfighting. I often fly into the side of vehicles (especially if my aircraft is full of holes and making nasty noises) but I still haven't managed to spot any birds for a while. I think it's the psychological value of 'catching them unawares' that gives me the buzz - I know that they will not take off but - hey imagination's a wonderful thing.

[NoseDive]

Well, whaddayaknow? They're back!!

I had a message on CFS3 startup that told me that my configuration had expired (?) - so I had to reconfigure the display options etc again. My initial reaction was 'aaaaargh! I've only just got it right!' but, in the course of my 'fiddlings' to get it looking good again, they came back (woohoo! - spoken in best Homer Simpson voice).

Guess they must've flown South for the winter. I am a happy bunny and have already managed to crash into one of them in all the excitement!

[randombeaner]

2) I read somewhere that you can designate specific targets on an airfield, hangars etc for your wingmen to attack. If this is true, please could somebody tell me how to do it, because my AI buddies all seem to want to go off and do their own thing.

About this one, It might seem like a no brainer, but it took me a while to figure out, but if you want your wingman to attack a specific target, select the target (tab) and in cockpit view make sure you are on padlock view (The tild(~) button on your keyboard) so that target is being followed with camera, then press "A". They will eventually attack that specific target but they are a little slow in the head so it will take a while.

By the way, For some reason, you cant seem to target hangers in Airfields, dont know while, I ussually take them myselft.

[NoseDive]

Thanks for the help with the targetting. I now send my wingmen off to take out the mission goal target (if it's something simple like a bridge/ammo dump etc) while I lead the rest of the pack in beating up a local airfield or factory - something a little more exciting.

I noticed the problem with targetting hangars too, and do the same - usually get one or two (if I'm lucky) on my initial run-in then look for the AAA to make life a little safer.

[TallMidget]

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[Smoke2much]

The best target of the lot has to be the aircraft factory.  On one relatively early bombing mission I have managed to kill about 20 Aircraft with a couple of bombs and get one or two of each medal going.

[farmerdave]

I think the only enemy airfields that would have aircraft on them are the "operational" ones listed on the enemy HQ markers on the campaign map.