They would not get promotions etc... The unit would fly on, but moral would be low, and flight leaders and CO's would be coming and going I suppose.

I think having AI pilots start at rookie level and then every 3 missions they advance a level which would be great to make you want to keep them alive as their death becomes hurtful to your squad as they mean better survival for you and......it ends here.

I believe squadron morale rating increases / decreases and that has a effect on how well they perform too. OBD would know for sure.

Hi Hellshade,

Yes, I've finally seen it twice now! I guess it isn't at every airfield as now I'm looking for it all the time...lol

But very cool, and a little more of this sort of thing at the airfields would be great.

This maybe also published and sorry if so, but I would like to see a commando key that the gunner in a 2seater just do what he is hired for. Shooting at enemy planes when they are in shooting range.
As a sample when flying the Fee, I managed to get behind the Fokker but the gunner refuse to shoot. Same when flying the parasol, my gunner never shoot when the plane is at the side only when the enemy plane is at rear.

So a commando key, that when pushing, the gunner is offensive and not acting defencive like now.

Yeah, they do need to fix the Fee in particular, as it is a primary in some fighter squads and it is fun to dogfight in, but the gunner will almost never fire even if you're right on someone's six at 50 yards. I can't remember if I've ever seen it fire in that instance, and if so only rarely.

I can appreciate that. The downside to them changing rear gunners to fire more often is that when you are the one in the single seater scout attacking the two seaters more active rear gunners might well make that experience suicidal. Especially since they tend to fly in groups. It would be great if there was a happy medium somewhere, but where it is is anyone's guess.

That's why a commando key to force the gunner to do any action.

Maybe you guys should try and set "Rear Gunner" to the most lethal setting in "Workshop"?

I did that but he is still acting in a defencive mode.

Oh, I see - t'was just a thought.

Dutch, I agree the observers can be frustrating at times. I've discovered that sometimes they won't fire if you are making any kind of evasive maneuvers.

I was flying plain straight behind the Fokker, it was no sharp turn just a matter of picking up his tail maybe the gunner was sleeping. LOL
At the Morane cockpit always the same story, just fly besides the German BI, the gunner refuse to shot only when Morane is in front of the BI it starts to shoot, no evasive maneuvers here or any wing/wire is blocking his gun.

As I wrote down it seems the gunner is programmed pure defencive and not offencive. Same you will have noticed in RoF btw. Guess this offencive behaviour could be difficult to program.

It would need more features for AI to know of other friendly AI and their intentions and combine it with theirs.
There are of course a lot of variables at play - it's possible that flight had seen action, or already low on morale etc to start with or other issues.

Correct they shouldn't fire when standing up and being thrown around in an aircraft! This is modelled in WOFF.

Wow - good detail!
Dutch, try flying more gentle curves - don't make the poor lad

Salmson 2's. Would love to see some American bomber squadrons.