BMS AI Command List Excel file
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Hello!
I found myself in need to have some kind of complete overview of all available A.I. Commands currently in BMS. I wasn’t able to find it on the forum so I decided create an Excel file with all Commands Lists from scratch.
The Excel file includes seperate tabs for AWACS, Wingman, Element, Flight, Tower & Tanker Commands. Each tab will list all the individual Command Pages and corresponding Keys. Currently this file is based on the QWERTY key layout and updated for BMS 4.33. I will revise and share the Excel file if anything changes in future versions of BMS.
Here you may download the latest Excel file so that you may be able to use it too for whatever purpose:
If you are looking for a good explanation of what some Commands do exactly, than I recommend you read “Chapter 23” of the Legacy “Falcon 4.0 Original Manual”. This manual is supplied by BMS in your Docs folder.
Cheers, Scuby
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Looks nice!! Could also serve as a great template to explain what each function does exactly, if you’ll let us? I think many have more problems with those than with the actual key commands.
e.g. AWACS TAB => REQUEST PICTURE : Ask AWACS for activity in your area (radius … NM)
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Looks nice!! Could also serve as a great template to explain what each function does exactly, if you’ll let us? I think many have more problems with those than with the actual key commands.
e.g. AWACS TAB => REQUEST PICTURE : Ask AWACS for activity in your area (radius … NM)
Thanks, I was already thinking of doing that later. But first I would like to share the complete and simple basis (a version 1;)) and maybe see if there is need for it from the community, otherwise it is just not that much worth the effort.
edit: i think i remember that most of the commands are explained in one of the supplied manuals…
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Looks nice!! Could also serve as a great template to explain what each function does exactly, if you’ll let us? I think many have more problems with those than with the actual key commands.
e.g. AWACS TAB => REQUEST PICTURE : Ask AWACS for activity in your area (radius … NM)
That would be very handy as well.
Looking forward to it.
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Looks nice!! Could also serve as a great template to explain what each function does exactly, if you’ll let us? I think many have more problems with those than with the actual key commands.
e.g. AWACS TAB => REQUEST PICTURE : Ask AWACS for activity in your area (radius … NM)
Yes please. Especially better explanations of some of the tactical actions - posthole, chainsaw, beam beam, beam deploy, etc.
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e.g. AWACS TAB => REQUEST PICTURE : Ask AWACS for activity in your area (radius … NM)
Yes please. Especially better explanations of some of the tactical actions - posthole, chainsaw, beam beam, beam deploy, etc.
Especially for you I have searched for it in the BMS supplied manuals as I remember having studied it long ago!
If you would please refer to your “Docs\Falcon 4 Legacy Manuals\1 - Falcon 4.0 Original Manual” folder and open the Falcon 4.0 Original Manual on Chapter 23. This entire chapter is dedicated to explaining the Radio Comms and even provides pretty pictures.
I will recommend/refer to this chapter in my first post, instead of redoing what already is done very well in the original manual. Although some commands like Grinder or Beam Deploy are not explained in the manual…
Cheers, Scub
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Especially for you I have searched for it in the BMS supplied manuals as I remember having studied it long ago!
If you would please refer to your “Docs\Falcon 4 Legacy Manuals\1 - Falcon 4.0 Original Manual” folder and open the Falcon 4.0 Original Manual on Chapter 23. This entire chapter is dedicated to explaining the Radio Comms and even provides pretty pictures.
I will recommend/refer to this chapter in my first post, instead of redoing what already is done very well in the original manual.
Cheers, Scub
Appreciate that reminder …. I had forgot that, for example, ‘posthole’ and ‘chainsaw’ were there. My point though is that not all commands are equally as well described as those in the original F4 manual.
For instance, I could not find ‘beam deploy’ or ‘grinder’ in any of the various manuals.
Not to mention in all the various improvements/changes/versions, have there been practical changes in the definition/use of any of the available (and previously documented) commands?
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Not to mention in all the various improvements/changes/versions, have there been practical changes in the definition/use of any of the available (and previously documented) commands?
Evidently and/but should indeed have been explained somewhere else, but I don’t know…?! My first goal was just to create a list for me and share it as it is.
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Evidently and/but should indeed have been explained somewhere else, but I don’t know…?!
We can only hope …. .
Don’t get me wrong, I think a handy reference of available commands is great. I often forget where a particular command is or differences between wing, element and flight. Being able to quickly reference that could be very useful.
I’m just suggesting that once the ‘platform’ is built, there is an opportunity (and, imho, a need) to expand it to include good, up-to-date definitions. Potentially ‘modernizing’ it a little as well with text hyperlinks, for example.
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Don’t get me wrong, I think a handy reference of available commands is great. I often forget where a particular command is or differences between wing, element and flight. Being able to quickly reference that could be very useful.
I’m just suggesting that once the ‘platform’ is built, there is an opportunity (and, imho, a need) to expand it to include good, up-to-date definitions. Potentially ‘modernizing’ it a little as well with text hyperlinks, for example.
Yes ofcourse. And such a reference list can have many different purpose. The actual reason for me to do this list was to check and correct my Voice Command profile, because I had some bugs in it. I figured that other people would see a need in it for whatever reason. If we want to add explanatory content into it, we must get help because I don’t have all the answers for each changed command.
Albeit most commands are self explanatory
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Probably every command not in chapter 23 is findable somewhere in the other supplied legacy manuals
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still using office 2003:mrgreen:
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still using office 2003:mrgreen:
I can save it in .xls too
Edit: Done! Download is now updated with an extra copy in .xls format to support older Excel(97-2003) installs
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Probably every command not in chapter 23 is findable somewhere in the other supplied legacy manuals
not really, I don’t think a lot of them are in any manual.
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@Axe:
not really, I don’t think a lot of them are in any manual.
After Scuby sent me to school on my poorly chosen 1st examples ( ), I specifically searched all included manuals for ‘beam deploy’ and ‘grinder’ and got 0 hits. Not sure what else might be missing and what isn’t (yet).
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Especially for you I have searched for it in the BMS supplied manuals as I remember having studied it long ago!
If you would please refer to your “Docs\Falcon 4 Legacy Manuals\1 - Falcon 4.0 Original Manual” folder and open the Falcon 4.0 Original Manual on Chapter 23. This entire chapter is dedicated to explaining the Radio Comms and even provides pretty pictures.
I will recommend/refer to this chapter in my first post, instead of redoing what already is done very well in the original manual. Although some commands like Grinder or Beam Deploy are not explained in the manual…
Cheers, Scub
Scub
I’m not at home so cant check my manual so please forgive my apparent laziness…. Does the manual contain the voice commands as would normally be used by pilots ? I’m going to set up VAC and would hope that i can get my voice commands to “roughly” match this great AI command list you have just given…
thanks
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Scub
I’m not at home so cant check my manual so please forgive my apparent laziness…. Does the manual contain the voice commands as would normally be used by pilots ? I’m going to set up VAC and would hope that i can get my voice commands to “roughly” match this great AI command list you have just given…
thanks
tThe manual does not list the command as it is given to the wing/flight/element/tower/etc. However, if you have ‘player voice’ on, you can hear the command spoken and make note.
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Scub
I’m not at home so cant check my manual so please forgive my apparent laziness…. Does the manual contain the voice commands as would normally be used by pilots ? I’m going to set up VAC and would hope that i can get my voice commands to “roughly” match this great AI command list you have just given…
thanks
tNo, and You don’t have to do the “work”, because you can always PM me and I’ll send you my profile Or, browse this forum and search for other profiles which are roughly the same. I use DWVAC (payware). But yes, this Excel file can be used to build a VAC profile from scratch, as it includes all possible AI Commands and in correct order. It is one of several reasons people might see a need for this handy file.
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After Scuby sent me to school on my poorly chosen 1st examples ( ), I specifically searched all included manuals for ‘beam deploy’ and ‘grinder’ and got 0 hits. Not sure what else might be missing and what isn’t (yet).
Hey Blu, don’t worry bout Scuby, I got your back.:p
‘beam deploy’ is when you give element this, they will beam the designate target (A/A flight) and attempt to keep a beam going. But if they are pressed then they will deploy against said enemy flight. In other words, your element’s preference is to remain in beam, keeping away until forced to engage or extend. According to this command, when pressed, they do not choose extend, they choose engage.
It is similar to ‘beam beam’ but when threatened with a possible engagement, a ‘beam beam’ will not choose to engage, but will always choose to extend in order to regain a beam after extending a bit.
To summarize it goes like this:
Beam deploy–- element beams, but will deploy when necessary.
Beam Beam—element beams, but will beam (although further out via an extension) if necessary.You could call the first one a ‘conservative engagement’ command. The second a ‘defensive engagement’ command.
I can give a tactical example if you want.