CanuckGamer Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Playing the Campobasso scenario as the Canucks. None of my HQs and the Forward Observer are "Denied" when I click on the airplane icon. Have read the manual and I think I am following the proper procedure. Any help would be appreciated. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 None of my HQs and the Forward Observer are "Denied" when I click on the airplane icon. Okay. So what are you going to bomb first? Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Field Marshal Blücher Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 Could you give us a bit more information? If your FO and HQs are not "Denied" when you click on the air support button, then you should be able to call in airstrikes. Walk us through what's going wrong. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CanuckGamer Posted October 13, 2012 Author Share Posted October 13, 2012 Sorry, just looked at the wording of my post. What I meant to say was that all my HQs and FO are Denied when I click on the air support button. I wanted to attack some German tanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sublime Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 then I'd say the only option available to you would be to preplan the air strike before the battle begins. on the setup phase...? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted October 13, 2012 Share Posted October 13, 2012 My guess would be that the airstrike requires that it be called by an FO (excluding the HQs from the list of potential spotters from the get-go), and that the FO "observer-eligible" team member (probably the "Leader") has been rendered hors de combat. Given that the target is tanks, I'd guess that the game isn't in the setup phase, and if it were, since you need an eligible observer, even if observation isn't necessary, for a preplanned mission, having the asset be "Denied" isn't going to permit a preplanned bomb run either. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 My guess would be that the airstrike requires that it be called by an FO (excluding the HQs from the list of potential spotters from the get-go), and that the FO "observer-eligible" team member (probably the "Leader") has been rendered hors de combat. Having the radio operator get blown away would do it too. Have you checked to see if the FO is in radio contact with anybody else, like off-map arty for instance? Another thing might be if somehow the air strikes are subordinated to a different chain of command than the FO. I don't have much experience with air strikes, so this is kind of a murky area for me. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Having the radio operator get blown away would do it too. Is that the case for air strikes? It's not for artillery. I've even less experience than you in air strikes, but I thought the processes involved were identical to artillery. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akd Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 Having the radio operator get blown away would do it too. No, it would not. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 No, it would not. In which case I stand corrected. Seems like it should though. :confused: Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
womble Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 In which case I stand corrected. Seems like it should though. :confused: Michael AIUI, the observer element is assumed to be able to maintain contact for the purpose of observation through "various means" (like wire telephony) that are not explicitly modelled. It would also suck big time for your FO-only assets to be denied whenever one of two out of the three-man team got geeked. At least at the moment it has to be the specific observer-type. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 14, 2012 Share Posted October 14, 2012 It would also suck big time for your FO-only assets to be denied whenever one of two out of the three-man team got geeked. At least at the moment it has to be the specific observer-type. I wasn't concerned so much with the operator buying it—I would assume that the FO himself would know how to operate the set—but with the radio becoming US due to damage. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sburke Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 In which case I stand corrected. :confused: Michael THAT should be in your sig. Better yet, maybe in AKD's sig. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Emrys Posted October 15, 2012 Share Posted October 15, 2012 Hush. There's too much of that around as it is. Michael 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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