Javelin Area fire

[ADDAX]

Does anyone know a realiable method of getting striker teams to area fire their Javelins at buildings?

I've been able to make it happen a few times, but not 100%.

For example in the 2nd Campaign mission I've tried dismounting a squad a good distance outside the wall, to have them area target the rooftops of some buildings inside the wall where I've spotted infantry. My squad has los and fires small arms at the building, but even though I've aquired the CLU and Javelin ammo, they won't launch any missiles.

Any tips?

[Molloy]

Under Administration commands, select "Anti-tank team", which selects the squad's best AT assets (Javelin, if equipped). Issue them a target and they will fire the missile.

[ August 17, 2007, 02:54 PM: Message edited by: Molloy ]

[wolf66]

I had them fire the Javelins at buildings with the "target light" command .....

[wolf66]

This applies to area fire at buildings, area fire at "normal" ground with Javelins I didn't figure out yet, if possible at all ......

[wolf66]

Originally posted by wolf66:
I had them fire the Javelins at buildings with the "target light" command ..... This worked with separate AT teams as well as the squad as a whole ( and as a squad they also fired their AT4s simultaneously )

[Panzerfest]

Ive never had a problem getting a squad to shoot their Javelins.

Targeting a building with a squad and 'target' command consistantly results in a Javelin getting fired.

[Xipe66]

Originally posted by wolf66:
I had them fire the Javelins at buildings with the "target light" command ..... That's extremely counter-intuitive and should be a bug. I usually "target light" when I positively don't want them to expend Javelins.

Was this since 1.2, or have I been lucky in 1.1?

[molotov_billy]

I separate them into anti-tank teams and they very reliable fire their javelins at area targets.

Are you sure that your guys have javelins, and it's not the AT4 graphic that you're looking at?

If you're using full squads, maybe the anti-tank guy was a casualty?

[molotov_billy]

Originally posted by ADDAX:

For example in the 2nd Campaign mission I've tried dismounting a squad a good distance outside the wall, to have them area target the rooftops of some buildings inside the wall where I've spotted infantry. My squad has los and fires small arms at the building, but even though I've aquired the CLU and Javelin ammo, they won't launch any missiles.It could be that some of your men had LOS, while the guy with the actual launcher did not.

[generaljon]

in the training mission 2,where all strykers are immobilised,i can't get them to fire on the 3 tanks in the distance.I targeted the normally, but they only fire MG's????WHY?!

[Molloy]

Originally posted by Molloy:
Under Administration commands, select "Anti-tank team", which selects the squad's best AT assets (Javelin, if equipped). Issue them a target and they will fire the missile.

[wolf66]

Originally posted by Xipe66:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by wolf66:
I had them fire the Javelins at buildings with the "target light" command ..... That's extremely counter-intuitive and should be a bug. I usually "target light" when I positively don't want them to expend Javelins.

Was this since 1.2, or have I been lucky in 1.1? </font>[/QUOTE]I did it in the Abu Susah battle, in 1.01 and in 1.02 - try it out.

[Mud]

Originally posted by generaljon:
in the training mission 2,where all strykers are immobilised,i can't get them to fire on the 3 tanks in the distance.I targeted the normally, but they only fire MG's????WHY?! The Javelins aren't meant to be fired from inside the vehicle.

Select passengers.
'Acquire' -- Javelin command module.
'Acquire' -- 1-3 Javelin ATGMs.
Disembark.
Target tank with the infantry.

[SlapHappy]

Originally posted by molotov_billy:
</font><blockquote>quote:</font><hr />Originally posted by ADDAX:

For example in the 2nd Campaign mission I've tried dismounting a squad a good distance outside the wall, to have them area target the rooftops of some buildings inside the wall where I've spotted infantry. My squad has los and fires small arms at the building, but even though I've aquired the CLU and Javelin ammo, they won't launch any missiles.It could be that some of your men had LOS, while the guy with the actual launcher did not. </font>[/QUOTE]Which brings up another question...If an area target command gives a situation where a certain part of the squad has no LOS, should they move into a position to acquire LOS if possible? And if they should, are they doing so?

[thelmia]

Originally posted by generaljon:
in the training mission 2,where all strykers are immobilised,i can't get them to fire on the 3 tanks in the distance.I targeted the normally, but they only fire MG's????WHY?! Did they take the launcher, too? Or just the missiles?

[ADDAX]

Whoa... lotsa action since I last dropped by...

Anyways, thanks for all the tips.

Molloy's method of selecting the "Anti-tank team" worked great.

It's also worth pointing out that though it looks like you've split your squad when you do this,(two separate infatry icons float above the squad) the squad is not permanantly split. After the squad fires at their targets in the action phase, the squad is returned to a single unit in the next orders phase.

I'm glad this is the case since managing split squads, if you don't need to send the teams in different places, is a bit of a pain. Not to mention the fact you can't remerge split squads.

Such nice collapsing buildings... smile.gif