Mosquito Defense, (C) option ??

[Bill Huntington]

I've wondered about Mosquito Defense. There are two choices. One has a (C) after it. That is the Convoy option. I've tried it for a while, and it defends my personal ship okay. The idea seems to be that it will also defend your nearby ships from missile attacks on them. I haven't observed that it works.

Have any pilots seen this command working? to protect nearby ships besides your own? If it works, does it also work for a ship that is not your personal ship?

Thanks.

[Timsup2nothin]

I've wondered about Mosquito Defense. There are two choices. One has a (C) after it. That is the Convoy option. I've tried it for a while, and it defends my personal ship okay. The idea seems to be that it will also defend your nearby ships from missile attacks on them. I haven't observed that it works.

Have any pilots seen this command working? to protect nearby ships besides your own? If it works, does it also work for a ship that is not your personal ship?

Thanks.

Isn't that meant to be used on AI ships? As in, turn it on in the carrier loaded with a massive pile of mosquitoes and it will protect the fighter wings for the duration of the combat where they wouldn't have enough cargo space to defend themselves...since the system burns through mosquitoes at a truly astonishing pace.

Try having a TM loaded with mosquitoes follow you into combat and see if it works.

[ancienthighway]

I can't say that I've tried this, but I think what you are missing is the convoy part. The lead ship has MDM(C) turned on and then would protect any ships following it. Just being in the area with another ship doesn't cut it. Following the protected ship doesn't work. I don't know if protect ship would even work.

[Alan Phipps]

When in doubt, I try to read the manual. Both the X3TC and X3AP BP documentation say:

"The command “Missile Defense Mosquito Convoy”, also in the Additional
Ship Command menu, allows one ship to protect itself and
it’s followers. This requires the following ships be using the navigation
command “Follow..” or fight command “Protect..”"

[Timsup2nothin]

When in doubt, I try to read the manual. Both the X3TC and X3AP BP documentation say:

"The command “Missile Defense Mosquito Convoy”, also in the Additional
Ship Command menu, allows one ship to protect itself and
it’s followers. This requires the following ships be using the navigation
command “Follow..” or fight command “Protect..”"

Counterintuitive, but I get it.

When I set up fighter groups I use a leader, then assign a couple to attack target of and another couple on protect, then do the same for each of those, rinse and repeat until the final layer which are all on protect. Intuitively, I would have put the protect convoy mosquitoes on the ships assigned to protect, when actually I should put it on the ships being protected.

[Bill Huntington]

Thanks all. Alan, you are a font of pertinent info, as usual.

[jlehtone]

Counterintuitive, yes, but the game's view on what a "formation" is and does sets technical limits. Signals, hooks, interrupts. As for name of the command, I have no idea whether the original german name is any more intuitive.