Target Selection

[Check Six]

On balloon busting missions, when I change my "TAC radar" to "Vehicles", this indicates a vehicle directly at the end of the waypoint line, which to me suggests that the balloon is classifed as a vehicle. If I select Target to player view, sometimes I find this is the ground guns assigned to protect the balloon.

 

Is there any way to select a Balloon specifically?

 

Also, when I'm in "Vehicle" targetting mode, generally, there's 20 or more vehicle "blips" on the radar. I know Tab = Select next Target, and Shift + Tab = Select previous Target, but is there any way to filter out the cars, trucks, and other assorted vehicles out to get just the balloon? I can of course, alter the range so that I'm only looking at vehicles within 1 nM, and that helps, but I still can't seem to target the balloon, just "vehicles" around that location. Also, that entails me fiddling around with the TAC when I should be setting up for my attack.

 

Last night I attacked a balloon and for the first time had "Le Prieur" rockets, and totally stuffed that attack up, and ended up having to waste ammunition on a gasbag, but couldn't target it and have my flight attack it, so I could chase away or fight off the defending aircraft. Ended up going for a dirt nap.

 

Any ideas?

[Cameljockey]

Your TAC shows the ground unit under the balloon, if you can find it among the others. Find the ground unit and look up.

[+Olham]

If you mean the yellow target marker, Steve - no, that won't appear. Do as CJ said.

But the last bit of way, you must really spot the balloon yourself.

[Duce Lewis]

You can target the balloon base using the Buildings settings on the TAC

Works good for RR Stations too

 

I like that the balloon can't be directly targeted

If it's foggy, it can be quite hard to see

Adds to the hunt

[Check Six]

Thanks for the replies gentlemen, but you seem to have missed the point, at least partially. What I'd like to know is if I can actually target the balloon so that I can order my wingmen to attack it. Sure, most of the time you want them to keep enemy aircraft occupied and off your tail while you do the job, I'd just want to know if I can order them to do it. It doesn't appear to be so.

 

I can easily change my TAC Radar to target vehicles only, and there at the end of the blue waypoint line is the balloon. I can usually see it long before then as I keep my "labels" on, and a "spotter" label appears where the targetted balloon is. And they really are hard to miss, visually that is. Ammunition wise is another thing.