Ai Defense Against Attacking Pts Is Lacking

Playing USN Campaign Surface Mission #6, where a large swarm of enemy PTs attack a US convoy.

I noticed that setting DEFEND DECKGUNS works fine but DEFEND AA GUNS is useless because the enemy is not aircraft.

Wouldn't a DE use its smaller guns to combat PTs? Asking the player to click on individual TAC targets and then assign guns in the control panel is tedious and not realistic, except for a captain pointing out a particular target under appropriate circumstances.

Use "ENGAGE" to aim AA guns on ships aswell as deckguns.

Use "ENGAGE" to aim AA guns on ships aswell as deckguns.

ENGAGE is the equivalent of the control panel's FIRE button, correct?

That's not sufficient. You stoll have to manually select targets, which, in USN surface campaign mission #6, is crazy. crazy:

If there's some 20 PTs against you and you're on a ship with lots of guns, you want a DEFEND command that makes the crew fire the smaller guns on ship to attack the nearest enemy ship and/or aircraft but not just exclusively aircraft.

Have to agree there, its a bit of a pain manually targetting surface targets for AA guns.

/bux

That is something that we can fix in the patch. AI will direct all of their guns at you, only fair the player can do the same thing.

Nice one East!