Ex Bellator Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 I am playing a QB where a pair of Stuarts are watching about a company+ worth of Axis infantry moving accross a road around 60m in front of them. The good thing about the Stuie is it's MG loadout, the bad thing is it's HE capability of the main gun. Unfortunately they just pump round after round of their puny 37m ammo out which the Germans ignore unless it's actually aimed at them, but they are not bothering to fire their MGs at this ideal target. Eventually most of the German infantry make it across and around the side of the Suarts and grenade bundles start to do their damage. Now I'm not going to cry BUG at this one instance, but has anyone else seen a similar lack of tank MG fire in their games? Could this be something to do with the very large HE loadout of the Stuie, which is causing them to burn that first before using their MGs. Then again, they have a huge MG loadout as well. [Edit for screenie] [ December 12, 2002, 07:23 PM: Message edited by: Rex_Bellator ] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redwolf Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 f you target a unit directly you can specify "fire main gun -> no". A trick I use to get the hull Mg to fire is to rotate the vehicle, while the turret is in a fixed place. If the rotating hull "strafes" over infantry targets it will fire its MG. If you are lucky. I agree that in your kind of fight the coax MG is vastly better than the main gun, because the MG will prevent the enemy soldiers from switching positions between the houses. I like TacOps behaviour which will always fire a burst of coax MG after it fires its main gun on infantry. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ex Bellator Posted December 13, 2002 Author Share Posted December 13, 2002 Yeah I know you can order it but the Tac-AI overrides and switches back to main gun HE. Plus you obviously cannot target squads which appear halfway into your turn. I cannot see in that situation why the Stuie should not have it's gun firing AND an MG at the minimum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Da Beginna Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 Nice unit flags! Which mod is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gunnersman Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 Originally posted by Da Beginna: Nice unit flags! Which mod is it?The interface is nice too. Which is it as well? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terrapin Posted December 13, 2002 Share Posted December 13, 2002 It's PakFan's interface mod. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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