ORIGINAL: Toivo
BryanMelvin:
I assumed units with no weapons (even without small arms) just can't assault. Haven't played SPWAW for ages though, just H2H.
As for planes case might be that target moved and another unit took it's place and got targeted instead thus. Quite possible as I doubt plane is smart enough to hunt few hundred meters off flying direction...
Toivo, you need to be a lil bit more clear! You stated you "din´t play SPWAW for ages, just H2H". Do you mean you refered to Panzer Leo´s H2H mod and not SPWAW V8.2??
However, "close assault" capability is tied to unit classes and not directly to available unit weapons (..although AT weapons, if available help considerably)! For this reason, the "civilian" style units in Norway OOBs special units section is classed as "Ski infantry", which has no inbuilt "close assault" capability! With very few exceptions most infantry type units have a "chance" for close assaulting vehicles, even those obviously unarmed.
Some info on close assaulting can be found in the manual page 64.
Aircraft targeting: it´s mostly random with most likelyhood that vehicles or forts are attacked, even if friendly! It´s not a bug, it´s a feature that is described in the manual page 73. Make a document search and you´ll find even more info on the topic. Beside that, the games "air attack" routines have some known problems for sure (providing sighting info for own units to opponent, ..inability to hide vehicles/forts in cover terrain) since quite a long time, not just V8.2
Make a forum search on the topic and be prepared to have dozens of threads showing up!
