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Doolan -> Target misidentification question (11/27/2016 11:30:46 PM)
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Hello everyone!
Longtime lurker and lifelong fan of Matrix Games checking in.
I got CMANO this weekend on the Steam sale after drooling over it for a while (I used to play the hell out of Mac Harpoon back when I was in school). I felt right at home, since the operating principles behind it are similar to Harpoon's, but as I was playing Uncle Mark's Tutorial #2 (English Jets over Uganda) I had a strange experience that I wanted to ask about.
I set up an AAW patrol mission with a flight of Lightnings and four Sparrow-armed Phantoms. Side doctrine / RoE was set to "Weapons Tight", as was the mission itself. With some fiddling, I managed to wipe out the Ugandan air forces without blowing up any neutral planes, sometimes manually marking bogeys as hostile to shoot them down before they got too close for comfort. That done, I sent a recon flight to Entebbe, and started bombing the now-identified key structures (got a nasty surprise from a WW2-era AAA gun, I think a ZU-23-2, which shot down one of my recon planes because I'm an idiot)
While I was at it, my AAW patrol took off again after refuelling, and shortly after I got a message stating I had engaged a neutral target. Then another, then another. Surprised, I checked the message log.
It turns out, my fighters had spotted three neutral planes, approached to investigate, positively ID'd them as "Civilian" unit types (via Eyeball Mk. I), then determined they were hostile for some reason, and gunned them down. [&:]
Now, obviously this was not a problem with my RoE, as the fighters did not engage any target not marked as hostile – the problem was they had wrongly marked as hostile three targets that obviously were not, without any input on my side.
Is this working as intended? What mission, side, or unit settings should I fiddle with to keep it from happening?
That tiny glitch aside, which is most likely my fault anyway, I am thoroughly in love with CMANO, and I just wish I had bought it earlier. Nowadays mostly every game I play is published by Matrix (all three Grigsby's major titles, various AGEOD titles, the DC series...) and I have to salute the CMANO team in particular for giving me that modern warfare itch again. Cheers! [:)]
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