tank_41 Posted July 20, 2000 Share Posted July 20, 2000 Hi As suggested by some of you, I went back and id a search on this AI targeting issue (ie, a tank may choose to target some infantry 1000m awasy while there is a known yet out of sight tank 300m ahead). I want to suggest a very simple scheme to fix this problem. And as you can see, this is a solution already being used by many other wargames while dealing with opp fire. Why dont we set a range option three type of targets: Hard, Soft, and AT. For example, I can tell my tank commander to look for Hard target in the range upto 2km, and AT target in the range upto 120m, and soft target in the range upto 50m. Now say you are on defense, you normally would have your infantry in front, digging nto the defensive positions, and 1 or 2 tanks falling behind as support. In this case, as a commander, once you know the direction from which the enemy's tank group might come, it is almost always the right decision to tell your tank crews to forget about enemy nfantry and only search for Hard target (your nfantry in the front line could take care of enemy infantry). We should have a global option for all unit and the ability to fine tune on each individaul basis. If this is too much of work for every type of unit to have such an option, we need it at least for the tanks. 2 On offensive: Here your Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Captitalistdoginchina Posted July 21, 2000 Share Posted July 21, 2000 I have a better suggestion - why not have 2 targetting commands available - one for the machine gun and a seperate one for the main gun. You could order your tank to engage troops with the machine gun and rotate the turret main gun to hard targets - Maybe the maingun can be commanded to only engage hard targets leaving the machinegun to carry on shooting at troops. CDIC ------------------ "Death solves all problems - no man no problem" J.V.Stalin, 1918 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juardis Posted July 21, 2000 Share Posted July 21, 2000 Capitalistic Dog Dude - I thought of that a couple nights ago myself, but forgot about it until you just mentioned it. Needless to say, I love that idea ------------------ Jeff Abbott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Bad Ju Ju Posted July 21, 2000 Share Posted July 21, 2000 Agreed, that approach seems pretty sound. IMHO this AI issue is really the only chink in CM's otherwise incredible armor. ------------------ "I didn't go to evil medical school for six years to be called MR. Evil." Dr. Evil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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