From what I read on current doctrine both for Hinds and Apaches, though different, the trend seems to go for consciously avoiding ground fire on ferry by a) flying above range for ground small arms or b) ducking into any terrain cover availiable to avoid MANPADs.
This IMHO could be well implemented in TacOps by adding something that works similar to the "Defilade Mode" for vehicles:
By clicking on the "Defilade = Avoiding Risks" button if
- on NOE chance for getting hit by MANPADs is severly reduced, also chance of getting hit by small arms ground fires from more than 250 mtrs away (i.e. to have a chance of getting hit you have to be more or less on top of it, conceptually assuming that MANPAD carrying troops or small arms carrying troops or vehicles dont get a valid enough visual on helo)
- on MED ALT chance for getting hit by small arms ground fire is reduced to zero (helo flies conceptually above small arms effective range), MANPAD risk unaltered to what we have now.
In case of the Avoid Risk Mode the aggressive capabilities of the helo that uses it get reduced:
- on NOE only targets within 500 mtrs can get attacked no matter what effective range the weapon system emplyed has (conceptually ferry mode, no agresssive pop ups, no valid firing solutions due to lack of visual, etc)
- on MED altitude only missiles can be used effectively against ground targets (helo above range for his MGs etc.)
I think employing something like this would make transport/ferry/insertion/recon missions much more realistic compared to the current high helo vunerability with regard to the chance of losing the helo in question.
What do you guys think?
Rattler
This IMHO could be well implemented in TacOps by adding something that works similar to the "Defilade Mode" for vehicles:
By clicking on the "Defilade = Avoiding Risks" button if
- on NOE chance for getting hit by MANPADs is severly reduced, also chance of getting hit by small arms ground fires from more than 250 mtrs away (i.e. to have a chance of getting hit you have to be more or less on top of it, conceptually assuming that MANPAD carrying troops or small arms carrying troops or vehicles dont get a valid enough visual on helo)
- on MED ALT chance for getting hit by small arms ground fire is reduced to zero (helo flies conceptually above small arms effective range), MANPAD risk unaltered to what we have now.
In case of the Avoid Risk Mode the aggressive capabilities of the helo that uses it get reduced:
- on NOE only targets within 500 mtrs can get attacked no matter what effective range the weapon system emplyed has (conceptually ferry mode, no agresssive pop ups, no valid firing solutions due to lack of visual, etc)
- on MED altitude only missiles can be used effectively against ground targets (helo above range for his MGs etc.)
I think employing something like this would make transport/ferry/insertion/recon missions much more realistic compared to the current high helo vunerability with regard to the chance of losing the helo in question.
What do you guys think?
Rattler
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