FMB - Planes do not engage

[Nepe_EAF51]

Hi all

Starting to get the hang of the FMB, I have some C# experience so I thought I would give it a try.

Anyway, the problem is that I can´t make the fighters engage each other. I set a Spit and a 109, Ace level, Waypoint 0 is "Normal Flight", the rest (4 or 5 more) all next to each other, "Engage fighters". When the fighters merge they should be already in "Engage Fighters" mode. But they do not engage, they just keep on rudder-turning next to each other.

Am I missing something?

TIA

[Ataros]

Do you assign the enemy group as target with a mouse?

If it does not help it may be a bug.

Try setting Free Hunt as objective.

[Nepe_EAF51]

Thank you Ataros, for this and all the other messages about scripting, very useful.

Yes I've tried setting the target, using Free Hunt, changing the Spit for a Blenheim and the wps for the 109s as Engage Bombers...nothing.

But in the campaigns the fighters do engage, right? I think I'll have a look at some of the campaign's missions.

[esmiol]

if your first waypoint is a normal fly, your secondary waypoint is engage fighter and the both plane cross between first and second point that won't work.

because your plane will receive order to attack fighter only in the second point.

another thing... if plane are too distant they can just not seen each other.

[Nepe_EAF51]

Thank you esmiol. Ive tried that too, I set the first Engage wps before the merge (so both fighters already arrived to the first Engage wp before crossing), then I set a few wps more, always "Engage Fighters", and close to each other.

Looking in externals you can see how the 109 makes small movement like he is going to attack, but inmediatly changes back to "Normal Flight" mode.

[SEE]

I have just been looking at a mission in a campaign that I downloaded. This mission worked fine and the ac were attacking without problems - what caught my eye was that all the waypoints for a BF109 group were set to Normal flight. Other groups had 'free hunt' set and these atacked as well.

[JG53Frankyboy]

i had the same experience - let the flights fly headon eachother on "free hunt".
They just ignored echaother.

anyway, i gave up missionbuilding in CoD (after 8 years in IL2 and hundreds of COOP missions for VOW).