Tank gunner will not change weapon when ordered, Gunner will not change to Sabot after command from Commander Options

[mick]

New member posting here... appologies if this has been covered before but I have done some searching and could not find the answer.

While playing as the Tank Commander (in the campaign) I am unable to order the Gunner to change weapon to main gun/sabot (by pressing F). The gunner also feels that the best option to engage enemy armour is with coax, which is somewhat ineffective...

Interestingly if I switch to the driver position and press F the Gunner obeys the command and changes weapon.

So two linked questions:

1. Is there a fix for being able to order the gunner to change weapons.
2. Is there a fix for the gunner to select the appropriate weapon themselves

I am running v1.15 on vista 64bit.

Thanks for your help

[communistbastard]

1) Your problem from what I have read is rather easy to solve, you must space bar then f to change to the main gun on the tank. When you just press F you are attempting to change your gun, which is the mounted M2 machine gun, so that's why it doesn't work.

2) Although I haven't messed around in a tank recently, to the best of my knowledge the default AI in Arma is very very stupid and I don't think there is any workaround that makes the gunner intelligent enough to select the appropriate weapon.

[Rewan]

If you give stupid orders the AI will follow you know... If it's just pissing you off you can try to switch and play as gunner...