ATGM teams unable to fire

Yorick · #1 April 16th, 2009, 02:19 AM

Every now and then I have an ATGM team which is unable to fire its rocket (for example a Canadian Eryx team). Although it is sitting still for multiple turns and has radio contact with HQ the fire options stay 0-6-1 (ATGM, rifle, handgrenade) for example.

Can anyone explain why this happens or is it a bug?

Marek_Tucan · #2 April 16th, 2009, 05:41 AM

Save game would be helpful. Are you sure they're not out of ammo? Happens to me sometimes in a firefight, unit expends all ammo and I do not notice it (say I think the other team op-fired and this one should have still one missile left)...

gila · #3 April 16th, 2009, 06:39 AM

Most likely as Marek pointed out they are out of rocket ammo.
Turn off rockets before ending turn so you can use them the way you want.

Koh · #4 April 16th, 2009, 07:02 AM

Or alternatively the team is too low on men or too supressed. Usually when ATGM teams drop to 1 man they won't be able to fire their ATGMs no matter how long you keep them stationary.

-Koh

Imp · #5 April 16th, 2009, 09:19 AM

Koh about covers it I think ATGM teams are quite prone to not firing as I think should be. It does not take much suppresion due to fire arty or being out of contact for a period to prevent fire. If they lose a man & have good experience may still get one shot but more often than not just lugging around a bit of heavy equipment, Eryx think 2 man crew so man down wont fire 3 man team as I said might if you are lucky.

Think of as coded the other way to squads.
Squads tend to lose shots from lower slots first when damaged.
Teams (RPG Chem etc) from first slot first

Wdll · #6 April 16th, 2009, 06:46 PM

Yorick make sure you have the 4.5 patch installed. There was a bug that was fixed regarding some ATGMs not firing if they lost a man. I don't know if that is the case with you since I have never used Eryx, so if you have the game patched to 4.5 it might be something else as mentioned by the previous posts.

Yorick · #7 April 19th, 2009, 04:09 PM

Thanks for all your answers! I think the reason is probably because the team has only 1 member left (I just checked), because its morale and ammo are in order and it also has radio contact.

I haven't installed patch 4.5 yet because of some PBEM's I'm engaged in, but I hope that will solve the problem.

Thanks :-)