Is there a better way to quickly identify members of a hostile wing?

[Magicbean]

In some of the RES locations you often get multiple wings of the same faction. It might be a wing of 3 Sidewinders in wing 1/2/3 of 3 Group X and another wing of 3 Anacondas 1/2/3 of 3 also from Group X. They often arrive together but sometimes you don't get to see that (when you're 'busy').

Apart from watching where they fly, is there any way of knowing which ships are in which wing? In the example above, you would also get the same target display info if one wing was 2 Sidewinders and 1 Anaconda (might be OK to attack) and the other was 1 Sidewinder and 2 Anacondas (might not be OK to attack) and I wouldn't even try 3 Anacondas.

What I'm wondering is, is there a 'select next ship in the wing I'm targetting' key or do all the key bindings only refer to ships in your own wing?

Thanks.

 

[GunnerBill]

Good question. I've noticed these multi wings more frequently now.

Sorry to say apart from what you already mention I think the answer is no.

I think though on a balance of probabilities a wing showing one sidey/eagle/viper/cobra will usually have two of those plus a big ship.

So just shoot the small ship obv. rest go red.

Unf. Gunships/Pythond sometimes can go round in pairs or even threes (!) so be more careful.

Basic rule - attack small escorts first and you're ok.