I see contradictions in your reports. When you play the game the aircraft do not abort, are not hit, but all are shot down? How is it possible that when I tried this the aircraft aborted or took damage every time?
There is no contradiction in my report, in that engagement, no aircraft were hit as is evidenced as they are about to fly off the edge of the map. How do you know if an aircraft has been hit? There is no effects of an hit on an aircraft either by an explosion or smoke trail as it flies over the map being engaged by air defences. They either just fly off the map or crash and one has to presume they have been hit. So how can you state that an aircraft has took damage when there is no visible evidence of such happening. Am I supposed to see a box flash up saying that it has been hit or damaged in the same way as a ground unit?
But during the whole scenario, aircraft where hit (non ever aborted), one has to presume as they just crashed on the map after being engaged by the air defences. At the end of the scenario, there was 20 wrecks on the map caused by engagements later on in the scenario, and the summary stated 38 had been shot down. Perhaps in the engagement I posted pics of, maybe non of them had been hit and crashed off map. or maybe all of them had been hit and crashed off map or just 1 or 2 did. During the game, there is no way of knowing of such happening.
As for what happens in your case and my case, I do not know what is happening. Has it to do with morale and training levels? For my scenario, both were set at 100%.
The helicopters should run away from artillery shells. Is it realistic to use artillery for that?
I know for a fact that helicopter pilots have a strong disliking to artillery shells, either being close to them exploding on the ground but equally just as much possibly having to fly in an area with artillery shells passing through in flight. And if helicopters were seen close to the ground hovering, then it would be a viable target to engage with artillery.
Just squeezed in a repeat of the same scenario that I posted the pics in with adjusted training and morale levels. FRG, +100% for both, Russia -100% for both. Totally different scenario, FRG destroyed 4 helicopters with a mass volley straight away and all aircraft flights aborted after receiving a mass volley of missiles and AAA and only the odd one flew over the FRG. In case I was missing something, I studied carefully if I was missing something to denote if an aircraft was hit or damaged and saw nothing, so how does one know if an AI aircraft has been damaged? And this probably points out why we had different results, morale and training values.
The picture denotes aircraft aborting and about to leave the map edge, 1 aircraft has already left and the two others not being engaged, have they been damaged, hence why they are not being engaged? After they left the map. I zoomed out and watched them fly off till they faded away:-
