Controlling Infantry

[ShoutingDog]

It's been a while since I played SB1 - a long, long while actually.

I seem to remember that when controlling infantry there was a way to force them to fire at the unit of your choice. I thought it had to do with lasing the unit you wanted them to fire at.

That method doesn't work in SB PE and I can't find how to do it in the manual.

How does one force a player controlled infantry unit to fire at the enemy I want it to?

[Ssnake]

You can't... at least not yet. And you never could. Shift+Lase can work, and it may have worked better at that in the past, but it never was an "override" function, just a tool to create "awareness" of a target.

We did work a bit on target prioritization since the old SB1 days, so this may have influenced the subjective responsiveness.

[dejawolf]

you might want to move your infantry to an area where the ATGM gunner or RPG gunner has a clear LOS to the vehicle you want them to fire at.
also, make sure they are whithin range of the respective missile they are using. some of the RPGs have a range of barely 200-400m.

[ShoutingDog]

Thanks - that's what I needed to know.