<option name="directPresenceTerritories" value="53 Sea Zone" count="1"/>

<option name="unitPresence" value="battleship" count="1"/>

I tried

<attachment name="conditionAttachmentPearlHarbour" attachTo="Americans_west" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.RulesAttachment" type="player">
<option name="directExclusionTerritories" value="53 Sea Zone" count="1"/>
<option name="rounds" value="1"/>
</attachment>

I thought this coding would check how the status of 53 sea zone is:
If Japan did not attack or the attack failed, this condition should be wrong, there would still be an unit (battleship) of the American_west there

If the Japanese are succesful, there are no more allied ships left, so the condition would be true.

yet, it doesn't work correctly. I wonder why

Sort of what we were trying earlier with the "BattleshipDamaged"

That was just an example. My trigger has a when...

Yeah. If there is a battleship in thst sea zone the trigger works. Is there a BB with a hit it doesn't. And ...battleship_hit.. causes an immediate error, the game will not start.

It does find the BB, just not the damaged one ?

Trigger question.

First trigger condition....something like

name='conditionAttachmentJapaneseBattleships' attachTo='Japanese' javaClass='RulesAttachment' type='player'>
<option name='directPresenceTerritories' value='map' count='1'/>
<option name='unitPresence' value='battleship' count='1'/>

Second trigger condition

name='conditionAttachmentJapaneseBattleships' attachTo='Japanese' javaClass='RulesAttachment' type='player'>
<option name='directPresenceTerritories' value='map' count='1'/>
<option name='unitPresence' value='battleship_hit' count='1'/>

It does not work! There is an error

So how make a condition that checks the presence of a regular battleship but that has already got a hit in a defined territory??

thx

There's been a few more developers active lately. If it's easy, maybe someone will take it on sooner than later.

Might request at git also https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues then add Feature Request from the Label menu. Might get more visibility that way. I'd post it here too.

that was excatly my first programming, but this way of doing it restricts the game. I want the user to decide what he does.

If he decides to move the damaged BB to a shore next to factory it should be repaired, if the player decides to attack with it, it should be possible too.

I think the programmers should enlarge the "placement" function by the battleship_hit.

Edit
Ok I just went through th thread again and I think WC is right, you can't place a damaged unit in game. Might be able to figure out away to make your scenario still work though. I'm gonna think on it some more

consumesUnits
values: requires that a unit be present in a territory, then when this unit is placed the other units are destroyed / upgraded into this unit. Can have multiple instances of this, which means it consumes multiple types of units.

I suggest looking at how "Hulls" work in Total World War. I'm gonna take a look at it myself. It seems as if you ought to be able to make something work with the Hulls. I'm not real familiar with them but think you place them and make it turn into a BB by using "consumesUnits" somehow.

Here's what he has

<attachment name="unitAttachment" attachTo="germanBattleship" javaClass="UnitAttachment" type="unitType">
<option name="movement" value="2"/>
<option name="attack" value="6"/>
<option name="defense" value="5"/>
<option name="attackRolls" value="2"/>
<option name="defenseRolls" value="2"/>
<option name="canBombard" value="true"/>
<option name="isSea" value="true"/>
<option name="hitPoints" value="2"/>
<option name="bombard" value="5"/>
<option name="requiresUnits" value="germanDocks:germanFactory"/>
<option name="consumesUnits" value="1:germanHull"/>
<option name="whenHitPointsDamagedChangesInto" value="1:true:germanBattleship-damaged"/>
</attachment>

I'm not sure how it changes. I'm gonna read up on it

I still miss something, everythings works fine, but the repairing ist not happening

here you see the new unit adjacant to a factory, but it was not repaired

the codes are:

1. <property name="Units Repair Hits End Turn" value="true" editable="true">
   <boolean/>
   </property>

2. <property name="Two hit battleship" value="true" editable="false">
   <boolean/>
   </property>

3. <property name='Two HitPoint Units Require Repair Facilities' value='true' editable='true'>
   <boolean/>
   </property>

4. <attachment name="unitAttachment" attachTo="factory" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.UnitAttachment" type="unitType">
   <option name="isFactory" value="true"/>
   <option name="isAAforBombingThisUnitOnly" value="true"/>
   <option name='repairsUnits' value='battleship:battleship-damaged'/>
   </attachment>

5. <attachment name="unitAttachment" attachTo="battleship-damaged" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.UnitAttachment" type="unitType">
   <option name="movement" value="2"/>
   <option name="attack" value="4"/>
   <option name="defense" value="4"/>
   <option name="isSea" value="true"/>
   <option name="canBombard" value="true"/>
   <option name="hitPoints" value="2"/>
   <option name="whenHitPointsRepairedChangesInto" value="0:true:battleship"/>
   </attachment>

I wonder what is missing

<!-- BattleShip-damaged -->

<attachment name="unitAttachment" attachTo="battleship-damaged" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.UnitAttachment" type="unitType">

<option name="movement" value="2"/>

<option name="attack" value="4"/>

<option name="defense" value="4"/>

<option name="isSea" value="true"/>

<option name="canBombard" value="true"/>
<option name="hitPoints" value="2"/>

<option name="whenHitPointsRepairedChangesInto" value="0:true:battleship"/>

</attachment>

My "special unit" was very similar, but the most important coding is:

<option name="whenHitPointsRepairedChangesInto" value="0:true:battleship"/>

that is what I missed
thx

I think the Factory will auto repair it but if not add the
<option name="repairsUnits" value="battleship-damaged"/>
to the Factory

so you shouldn't need a second trigger

Edit
yea disregard the stuff about the Harbour. I was confusing it with what I did. You just want the Factory to auto repair same as any damaged BB

I am afraid this is the way to go.

Then I need a second trigger, one that is activated when that special unit ends its turn adjacant to a factory. Then I will repair it by exchange it with a normal battleship.

Any idea how to do this?

thx for the advice, but one difference ist clear.

My coding

<attachment name="triggerAttachmentBBrefloating_PearlHarbour" attachTo="Americans_west" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.TriggerAttachment" type="player">
<option name="when" value="before:americans_westNonCombatMove"/>
<option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachmentPearlHarbour"/>
<option name="placement" value="56 Sea Zone:battleship" hitsTaken="1" count="1"/>
<option name='uses' value='1'/>
</attachment>

is part of a trigger, while your code

<unitPlacement unitType="battleship" territory="95 Sea Zone" quantity="1" owner="Italians" hitsTaken="1"/>

is part of the initial setup.

..

★
unitPlacement
Define initial unit placement
An object withinunitInitialize
Parameters:
unitType: Any unit in the unitList
territory: Any territory in map
quantity: integer
owner: Any player in playerList
These units will already be on the map when the game begins.

@beelee

<unitPlacement unitType="battleship" territory="118 Sea Zone" quantity="1" owner="Germans" hitsTaken="1"/>

works,

but you get a "normal" battleship, not the one with a hit

Idk why that's not working. That's what I used in Oztea 41.

<!-- BattleShip-damaged -->
<attachment name="unitAttachment" attachTo="battleship-damaged" javaClass="games.strategy.triplea.attachments.UnitAttachment" type="unitType">
<option name="movement" value="2"/>
<option name="attack" value="4"/>
<option name="defense" value="4"/>
<option name="isSea" value="true"/>
<option name="canBombard" value="true"/>
<option name="bombard" value="2"/>
<option name="hitPoints" value="2"/>
<option name="whenHitPointsRepairedChangesInto" value="0:true:battleship"/>
</attachment>

Then for your repair unit you could try removing it from repairsUnits in Harbour

<option name="repairsUnits" value="battleship:carrier:battleship-damaged"/>

and add it to your repair unit which would require a harbour to place. That still would work when harbour was damaged though. You might be able to try and have it place only with undamaged harbour. Idk if you can do that though. If you already had a repair unit placed, it'd still repair as well.

Edit
Yea actually it does work by not allowing you to place the repair unit in a damaged harbour or factory. That's what I did with "Factory Limited" in Global 40 House Rules.

In case of a soultion where you drop a special unit by a trigger and that unit represents a BB with a hit, you have to define in the xml a way how to repair it.

so in the trigger you replace that unit with a regular BB and everything is fine.

My problem here is the trigger condition,
because you never know where the user will move the special unit on the map.

E.g. around UK there are already five sea zones connected with the factory. At the start of AA41 the allies have 9 sea zones adjancent to a factory. And each buy of a new factory increases that number.

And any sea zone like that would be OK to repair because

<property name="Two hit battleship" value="true" editable="false">
<boolean/>
</property>
<property name='Two HitPoint Units Require Repair Facilities' value='true' editable='true'>
<boolean/>
</property>

are both active.

So what would be the coding in the condition to "repair"(get replaced) such a special unit if it ends its turn adjacent to an allied factory?

<unitPlacement unitType="battleship" territory="118 Sea Zone" quantity="1" owner="Germans" hitsTaken="1"/>

works,

but you get a "normal" battleship, not the one with a hit

<unitPlacement unitType="battleship_hit" territory="118 Sea Zone" quantity="1" owner="Germans"/>

is also wrong

I still look for a way to place a BB with a hit by a trigger, without creating special units