How to order wingman to drop fuel stores only?
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Is there a way to order your wingman to drop the fuel stores only while keeping A-G loadout?
I was doing an A-G sortie recently but ended up ambushed by bandits, forcing me to drop my fuel stores and go A-A. I went ahead and told my wingman to also drop his stores (believing it was only fuel stores) so he would be more maneuverable and help me better to fight off the enemies.
Surviving the encounter I asked him for a weapons check and, to my surprise, he also dropped his A-G loadout instead of the fuel tanks only. I couldn’t find any other command for him to drop the fuel stores only. Is there a workaround to this or am I’m missing something here?
Thanks.
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Short version, either you have reasons to drop everything, either you keep everything. Bombs are for your secondary objective (targets), fuel is for your primary (aircraft back home). If you need the fuel down, the bombs leave with it.
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Short version, either you have reasons to drop everything, either you keep everything. Bombs are for your secondary objective (targets), fuel is for your primary (aircraft back home). If you need the fuel down, the bombs leave with it.
100% correct.
Additionaly, if AIs really needs to drop their loads and FT, they will do by their own. This is “not your affair” … But of course, as flight lead of the strikers, think about asking for a bomb check/battle damage after an unexpected and accidental (but victorious) A/A engagement … Maybe you will be the only one of your flight to still have something to deliver. And / or the only one with enough fuel to reach your initial planed target … Or not…