View attachment 69283This is near rome in italy i dont remember, but its always the objective for ground attack in quick combat when i chose that area, and even though i've bombed the cr@p out of it, I never get a success message?????!!!!!
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- Thread starter josepicos
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Daiwilletti
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Hi josepicos,
Regarding "never getting the success message" - take a look at the circular TAC display at the top left corner of your screenshot. It shows a purple "blob" which is the goal for the mission.
The mission goal always shows as purple in the TAC. Bombing the stuff which shows as red triangles in the TAC will not achieve the mission - the purple stuff needs to be damaged to the extent required in the mision.xml file. Of course if the mission is written in such a way that the goal cannot be achieved for some reason, you will never get a success message.
As for swapping out AA guns in a facility file - go to the Facility folder and find the relevant xml file. You can edit it using a simple text editor like Notepad, or something more powerful like Xml Wrench.
When you open the facility file you will see entries for example "#armor_AA_mobile#1". The a_50cal_quad is in your vehicles folder and from memory, in the xdp file it is in the armor_aa_mobile group.
You can simply put in the xdp name of the 50 cal quad into the line replacing "#armor_AA_mobile".
Once your facility file lists some specific guns, the trouble is that the facility will generate everywhere with those guns - hence you will get German facilities appearing with US guns. When the random elements are used (using the # symbol and the generic group type), guns appropriate to the Axis or Allies are spawned for the facility.
For those facilities that are specifically listed in the Global layer, that does not matter so much if they are unique to one country, then you can choose nation-specific guns without the side-effects.
HTH?
Regarding "never getting the success message" - take a look at the circular TAC display at the top left corner of your screenshot. It shows a purple "blob" which is the goal for the mission.
The mission goal always shows as purple in the TAC. Bombing the stuff which shows as red triangles in the TAC will not achieve the mission - the purple stuff needs to be damaged to the extent required in the mision.xml file. Of course if the mission is written in such a way that the goal cannot be achieved for some reason, you will never get a success message.
As for swapping out AA guns in a facility file - go to the Facility folder and find the relevant xml file. You can edit it using a simple text editor like Notepad, or something more powerful like Xml Wrench.
When you open the facility file you will see entries for example "#armor_AA_mobile#1". The a_50cal_quad is in your vehicles folder and from memory, in the xdp file it is in the armor_aa_mobile group.
You can simply put in the xdp name of the 50 cal quad into the line replacing "#armor_AA_mobile".
Once your facility file lists some specific guns, the trouble is that the facility will generate everywhere with those guns - hence you will get German facilities appearing with US guns. When the random elements are used (using the # symbol and the generic group type), guns appropriate to the Axis or Allies are spawned for the facility.
For those facilities that are specifically listed in the Global layer, that does not matter so much if they are unique to one country, then you can choose nation-specific guns without the side-effects.
HTH?
Daiwilletti
Charter Member
NBB I forgot to mention the 50 cal is a hopeless AA gun to defend a major facility from high altitude bombers. It simply cannot reach airplanes that are flying high. The German 37mm quad that is floating around is more effective but you really neet the 88mm or the 90mm to defend major facilities. If you increase the "ratelimit" entry in the gun's xdp file (to something from 20 up to 60) for the 88mm gun then you will get something that tracks aircraft quicker. Not so important for high altitude aircraft. (The 37mm quad is simply a re-skinned a_50_quad with the xdp gunstations swapped over to 37mm. There are some neat newer flak models in ETO).
The ratelimit for the stock g_88 in the Vehicles folder, is set too low. Not sure about the a_90mm's rate limit.
The ratelimit for the stock g_88 in the Vehicles folder, is set too low. Not sure about the a_90mm's rate limit.
Yes but, that screenshot was me messing with the lancaster.......I can check againg but its still the same, I figured it out, and these will certainly knock out bombersView attachment 69330
View attachment 69331I checked and there is no purple blob, I pick Italy/Roma/Ground Attack/Factory.........and it sends me there nowhere else...............just red blobs sending me to that
P.s what is it, it looks like something they drew out of chalk View attachment 69332
P.s what is it, it looks like something they drew out of chalk View attachment 69332
View attachment 69331I checked and there is no purple blob, I pick Italy/Roma/Ground Attack/Factory.........and it sends me there nowhere else...............just red blobs sending me to that
P.s what is it, it looks like something they drew out of chalk View attachment 69332
That's a training ground for Regia Aeronautica bomber pilots.