placement/removeUnits Question

[Numetalfan]

I designed conditions and a trigger:

<attachment name="triggerSpaintoPro-Axis" attachTo="Pro-Axis" javaClass="TriggerAttachment" type="player">
<option name="when" value="after:Pro-AlliesCombatMove"/>
<option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachmentalliedbattlespain:conditionAttachmentobjectiveG4cn"/>
<option name="removeUnits" value="Spain:all"/>
<option name="changeOwnership" value="Spain:any:Pro-Axis:false"/>
<option name="placement" value="Spain:pa_infantry" count="3"/>
<option name="uses" value="1"/>
</attachment>

everythings works..
....except:
<option name="removeUnits" value="Spain:all"/>

all original (neutral) units there remain. What can be the reason for that?

[beelee]

@numetalfan so Spain is a True Neutral that changes into a Pro-Axis Neutral ?

If so you might need to remove the Neutral units before it changes ownership to pro-axis and then add them back as pro-axis after if needed.

You'd probably need separate triggers.

This is just a guess

[wc_sumpton]

@Numetalfan

The units do not belong to Pro-Allies. 'removeUnits' is looking into Spain and removing all Pro-Allies units.

Cheers...

[Numetalfan]

@wc_sumpton

so in the placement phase it is

<unitPlacement unitType="infantry" territory="Spain" quantity="3"/>

so no owner nation.
but the trigger has to be attached to someone

the units are located in:
...\units\Neutral

my first idea:

<attachment name="triggerSpaintoPro-Axis1" attachTo="Neutral" javaClass="TriggerAttachment" type="player">
<option name="when" value="after:Pro-AlliesCombatMove"/>
<option name="conditions" value="conditionAttachmentalliedbattlespain:conditionAttachmentobjectiveG4cn"/>
<option name="removeUnits" value="Spain:all"/>
<option name="uses" value="1"/>
</attachment>

does not work, maybe it's because of
attachTo="Neutral

how to solve this ?

[beelee]

@numetalfan so Spain has changed to "Neutral_Axis" or w/e you have in your game. So try the attachTo="Neutral_Axis"

[wc_sumpton]

@Numetalfan

I am sorry, but I don't have a simple answer. The only way I am able to remove 'Neutral' units it to have a 'Neutral' player. '<option name="players" value="Neutral"/> dose not seem to work.

Again sorry.

Cheers...

[Cernel]

@wc_sumpton said in placement/removeUnits Question:

@Numetalfan

I am sorry, but I don't have a simple answer. The only way I am able to remove 'Neutral' units it to have a 'Neutral' player. '<option name="players" value="Neutral"/> dose not seem to work.

Again sorry.

Cheers...

I think @redrum already clarified that the "Neutral" player is sort of a program hack to support simple "neutral" defensive units. For anything more complex than that, I believe you are supposed to have an actual player, hiding it and pre-assigning it to "Does Nothing".

[TheDog]

@numetalfan
Try using a pseudo player, I call them "none", with a

<player name="none" optional="false" canBeDisabled="false" defaultType="DoesNothing" isHidden="true"/>

[Numetalfan]

@all

I will try that, thx

[Numetalfan]

@thedog

now everything works!