Question about trenches domination 1914 no mans land

beelee

@Ramon

Hi Ramon

What triplea engine are you using ? If it's the latest, you might try using the old 2.5.

You could also try using the old Domination with the new engine version or whichever version you are using.

Might let you know if it's engine related then.

I don't think you can remove the defense completely. You can try it but I think it throws an error.

@wc_sumpton would probably know or @rogercooper

RogerCooper

@Ramon Are you limiting the number of rounds for battles?

wc_sumpton

@ramon

Is property "Transport Casualties Restricted" set?

Cheers...

beelee

@wc_sumpton said:

Transport Casualties Restricted

Hi WC

What does that one do ?

wc_sumpton

@beelee said:

What does that one do ?

From my understanding this setting restricted the taking of 0 attack/0 defense units as fodder during combat, and allows these units to be auto-destroyed if there are no accompanying units.

Cheers...

beelee

@wc_sumpton

ahh maybe it only works if the battle starts out that way ? After the hitters are dead, you still have to roll to kill them ?

I will test

Ramon

@wc_sumpton

Thank you for your response!

Turns out that setting was indeed not enabled.

Once i enable this setting i'm running into another issue. In our mod, transports have 1 defense and battlecruisers are able to transport 1 inf. However this setup appears to be incompatible, im recieving the following error:

Validation errors parsing game-XML file: C:\Users\ramon\triplea\downloadedMaps\war_plan_red_orange\war_plan_red_orange\map\games\War_Plan_Red_Orange.xml, errors: Restricted transports cannot have attack or defense, , for: UnitAttachment attached to: UnitType{name=transport} with name: unitAttachment Restricted transports cannot have attack or defense, , for: UnitAttachment attached to: UnitType{name=battlecruiser} with name: unitAttachment

this makes sense, if i understand correctly i cant restrict transport casaulties and making them have 1 defense.

Is there a way to make these features compatible?

Thank you!

wc_sumpton

@Ramon

Try "isCombatTransport" for those units that can transport and also participate in battle.

Cheers...

Ramon

@wc_sumpton

Thanks a lot!

I hope im not asking too much,

We are implementing landmines and currently i have the following unit attachment set up:

Right now landmines behave like Anti-aircraft against troops (first strike and hitting a set number of units, which is intentional), but they also have 1 hp

In a perfect situation the landmine should act like a normal AA (like the one in domination), but once the territory is captured it should destroy itself.

I have looked at other maps, but i couldnt find any that implement landmines in this way. Do you know if this is possible?

I tried making it a suicide unit, this didnt work, they all suicide after 1 infantry attacks them.

If i make them non-suicide the enemy can capture them

I appreciate your help, cheers!

wc_sumpton

@Ramon

Try something like this:

<attachment name="unitAttachment" attachTo="landmine" javaClass="UnitAttachment" type="unitType">
<!-- <option name="defense" value="0"/> removed -->
<!-- <option name="attack" value="0"/> removed -->
<!-- <option name="isAA" value="true"/> removed -->
<!-- Expanding "isAA" values -->
<option name="isAAforCombatOnly" value="true"/>
<option name="isAAforFlyOverOnly" value="true"/>
<option name="typeAA" value="Landmines"/>
<option name="attackAA" value="1"/>
<option name="maxAAattacks" value="6"/>
<option name="targetsAA" value="infantry:tank:cavalry"/>
<option name="isInfrastructure" value="true"/> <!-- Changed so units can't be taken as fodder -->
<!-- <option name="isFirstStrike" value="true"/> removed -->
<option name="isConstruction" value="true"/>
<option name="constructionType" value="Landmines"/> <!-- Changed -->
<option name="constructionsPerTerrPerTypePerTurn" value="1"/>
<option name="maxConstructionsPerTypePerTerr" value="10"/>
<!-- The following is added so that mines operate on defense -->
<option name="isSuicideOnDefense" value="true"/>
<!-- only those units that gets a hit are removed -->
<option name="isSuicideOnHit" value="true"/>
<!-- Unit can not be captured -->
<option name="destroyedWhenCapturedBy" value="BY:$ListOfAllPlayers$"/>
</attachment>

Also "Units Can Be Destroyed Instead Of Captured" will need to be set.

Cheers...