[kapuhy]

Returning to meddling with plane AI after a long break. As a little recap, I made a video showing difference between airplane AI as it is in TWoS and what happens if we tell planes to strafe, not bomb, fast moving targets:



In the above, I set 6 planes starting at 6 km distance (Sunderland, B-17, Liberator, Swordfish, Martlet, Catalina) to bomb our boat which is simply sailing in straight line at flank speed.

Results:

- unmodified AI: only level bombers even drop bombs, and after 3 minutes U-Boat is more or less intact (only light damage from guns).
- "strafing" planes: two planes crash into sea, but remaining ones score several hits in 3 minutes sending U-Boat to the bottom.

Edit:
- Behaviour is only modified for targets moving over 5 kts. For static/slow targets planes use SetCourseBomb approach which is much safer.
- I tried to add condition checking plane's own speed to break off the attack if in danger of stalling, but to my suprise GetCurrentSpeed() function returns unit's maximum, not current speed so it proved useless for this. Only thing that somewhat reduces stalling is increasing plane minimum height, but this has to be done on plane-by-plane basis.