Aircraft CAS AI is frustrating

[tONii-chan]

I had a flight of A-7s with Rockeyes and Zunis trying to do CAS against a bunch of T-72s. Unfortunately they seem to just endlessly circle around and occasionally get the rare shot off, even though they should be able shoot to most of the time. When I select them to attack a tank, they perform their usual ingress but seem to veer off at the last moment even though they have a clear line of sight to the target.

Does anyone else have this problem?

It would be really nice if I could just set them all to be weapons free and let them intelligently choose their targets.

[Tero]

It's a bug with how AI handles close targets right now. You'll see the same thing when an aircraft gets close to a target in a dogfight or if a helo tries to drop a sonobuoy too close. A workaround right now is to tell them to cease fire, pull them away, then tell them to re-engage from a farther distance.

[Lord of the Exiled Winks]

yeah thankfully it seems like the devs are clued into the insanely high level of micro.

[Dirtweasle]

** It would be really nice if I could just set them all to be weapons free and let them intelligently choose their targets. **

+1