The use of destroy_units in the campaign script

[SigniferOne]

"label_unit" is an exclusively battle-map command, used for scripted battles.

[Aikanár]

Ah, I see, thanks for pointing this out to me

[Gigantus]

The label_unit command only works within a battle script I believe. Germanicu5 Stakes script for TATW is a brilliant example, but this is how the script starts:

monitor_event BattleConflictPhaseCommenced FactionIsLocal
prepare_for_battle

[Hero of the West]

hmm so the idea is probably not going to work?

[redxavier]

Fantastic discovery... a while ago I wrote a saxon fyrd script and used destroy_units to disband all the fyrd units, either by player action (monitoring UnitDisbanded) or script after a number of turns had passed since the fyrd had been called. But I had to make do with an existing unit attribute to use as the dummy (and try to find one that I wasn't using, like can_sap), which severely limited the script's application.

The ability to create your own dummy attributes means that I can have separate fyrds for each region, all of which can be disbanded at different times.

[fightermedic]

this could be used to have a maximum number of certain units available at any time
just have the game check every turn how many units with the xyz-unit atribute there are and disable recruiting them via a triggered event if there is the given number or more

great find btw

oh and shouldn't this be moved to the tutorials section of the forum?

[Withwnar]

Great stuff.

Can custom attributes be used in other commands/conditions? I tried with I_NumberUnitsInSettlement but it didn't work.

[Ishan]

@Withwnar
If a single command recognizes a custom attrib from the EDU then so does every other command will.

[Withwnar]

Thanks Ishan but "with a few exceptions" perhaps? create_unit doesn't seem to work, for instance. Unsurprisingly; it wouldn't be necessarily creating a unit in this case which is its purpose.

[Taiji]

They can be used where the docudemons specifies 'unit attribute' as a parameter.

[Ishan]

They can be used where the docudemons specifies 'unit attribute' as a parameter.

Thanks Taiji for clearing that up as i was not able to phrase my sentence properly.
+rep

[Withwnar]

They can be used where the docudemons specifies 'unit attribute' as a parameter.

Thanks Taiji. As far as I can see destroy_units is the only command with such a parameter. Plus - I think - these conditions:

I_BattlePlayerArmyNumberOfAttribute
I_BattleEnemyArmyNumberOfAttribute
I_BattlePlayerArmyPercentageOfAttribute
I_BattleEnemyArmyPercentageOfAttribute
PercentageUnitAttribute

[semmes]

And it would be possible to destroy units under a % of their original strength, or without a minimum number of soldiers? This would kill characters?

[Gigantus]

destroy_units cannot be restricted in the sense of defining other attributes ( % of original strength) - either all the units with that attribute get removed\destroyed or none.