Wingmen won't attack ground targets

[kozzm0]

If you center your crosshairs on the actual target and give them the attack order at that exact instant, then they might do it.

I think that's how the X attack command is supposed to work. But I can recall only one time ever a wingman ever actually doing it. It was in the single mission, can't recall the name, in Korsun I think, where Danilov leads a flight of sturmoviks to knock out some AAA, in 4 groups of 3, and the ones in the south are hidden in the trees. In sim/limited ammo, you don't get enough explosives to get them all, even using guns for the rest of them. The wingmen will attack the AAA via the star-attack command, but they use up all their explosives too. The one time I remember, I was at the group of AAA on the north end, they were the last ones left, and so I hit the X-attack with my target on the AAA and flew away, and amazingly one of my wingmen flew up guns blazing and destroyed it.

But that's the only time I can recall. The wingmen are mainly worthless idiots against ground targets.