Mission 4 Whirlwind Tanks won't shoot

[Schinderberg]

So I'm trying to play the Campaign. In mission 4 you should use the 3 Whirlwind tanks to shoot the Orks and their camp from the Cliff. For some unknown reason they give a sh*t about my command to fire.
I heard this is a known bug. How can I fix that?

Thx for your help.

[lrs_s]

I had to do that mission with the jump marines. You can get them to fire a few times by using the attack ground button, but they stop after one salvo and may not target the same spot again. If you jump back and forth with the assault marines you can get your base. Once you build them for yourself they seem to work just fine.

[TheGodofDragons]

For some reason, the whirlwind tanks have "Cease Fire" as their default stance. Change it to "Attack Stance" and you should be good to go.

[M]

Thanks, yeah that's pretty freaking dumb lmao wtf :D doesn't make much frickin' sense man ♥♥♥♥♥♥ rage hahahaha fk it w/e

[Raven]

coming from 2024, didn't fix the issue. they just sit there loading up their shots but never firing no matter what stance they are in.

[timbo1357]

i had the exact same issue. the default setting on that mission for them is to "hold fire". If you click that and change it to fire at will, and then select something that is in range, they start firing.
If after that it still doesn't work what you have to do is jump your space marines as far to the right as you can, then attack and destroy a couple things, run away and replenish your dead, and then go back and attack and retreat and replenish, etc. etc until you destroy it all.

[Raven]

don't remember what i did specifically to fix this issue but i think I used the attack ground command. I might have changed the stance too. but I got past it. now the issue I have is in winter assault on the 4th mission for order side. requisition builds extremely slowly no matter how many SPs i control. Makes me believe it's a glitch but many people claim it's part of the challenge. quite frankly for an easy/normal mode challenge that feel more like its on max difficulty or something lol.

[Battle Puppet]

Hey I can answer this!

When the mission starts, select the tanks, don't move them, and change their behavior thing to "attack on site" (the red one). If you move them something breaks and they can't get to where they want to be. Don't use the area attack either, just change their stance so they auto-attack. After they start attacking on their own you can have them target specific things. Trust me, this works every time.

Here, a better way of saying the same thing:

Originally posted by K84:

The Whirlwinds in this mission are set to start in "Cease Fire" mode. Select the Whirlwinds and look at the lower-right corner of the UI. There is a button there that allows you to change the units' stance, which is currently represented by an icon with a green hand on it. Click it to cycle through the other stances - anything other than Cease Fire will allow them to open fire.