You gotta bear in mind that your number #2 (lol, number 2!) is only as dumb as you let him be. If you tell him/them to attack a target, they generally will. But once that target is dead, they'll need another one to attack which you have to designate to them (ie, order them to kill). AGMs are good for this as they'll be rather economical with them, but load them up with iron bombs, cluster munitions, etc, and they'll drop a quite a few. I have noticed that sometimes you'll get a "can't comply", but I'm not sure why as I've flown a series of sorties with similar armaments and occasionally they won't. When you detect airborne targets, they sometimes won't shoot outside of their own detection range, but the bigger problem I seem to see more often with air to air engagements is that, despite being loaded out with AHM/SAHMs, my #2, even the others will close to IRM/gun range and take them on. Also, don't forget with your #2 to make sure you use the status check option or F6 to skip to their aircraft so you can keep tabs on their ordinance situation.