Managing some rebels...

[wuaf²]

Hello everybody

I'm in despair with my tests. Maybe you can help me...

The Facts : I'm working on a fantasy mod for Kingdoms. In the story board of the main campaign the "rebels" (a strange faction named as "marauders") are leading, in the very beginning, massive attacks on several cities. An other faction, with the pope tag (I know, it's a bit complicated), will resist their attacks and then "ally" to them. For the moment everything, except my problem, is fine ; the faction slave is powerfull and leads deadly attacks when spawning brigands who don't hesitate to crush settlements. But the rebels spawned by my own need to be managed by script. The next step is to convert these spawned generals to "pope" and it seems to be working.

The Problem : The slave general who's assigned to take the "pope" city start the siege but the next turn he's wandering around. So, when the order to terminate siege by assaulting the city occurs, he's far away and has no siege equipment ! It is very badly unrealistic. Could you please give me some hint to solve this ?
=> The behavior is scripted as : siege_settlement X, Y, maintain, then after a certain number of turns, siege_settlement X, Y, attack.

The Files : (for the moment I'm testing scripts on Stainless Steel's main campaign map)

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descr_strat.txt

faction slave, balanced mao
ai_label mongol
denari 1000
denari_kings_purse 1000
 
character Nadziranim_Adelmo, named character, male, age 30, x 169, y 147
    traits LoyaltyStarter 3, NaturalMilitarySkill 3, GoodCommander 3, ReligionStarter 2 
    army
    unit NE Bodyguard exp 9 armour 9 weapon_lvl 9
    unit Death Knights exp 6 armour 6 weapon_lvl 6
    unit Death Knights exp 6 armour 6 weapon_lvl 6
    unit Religious Fanatics exp 5 armour 3 weapon_lvl 6
    unit Religious Fanatics exp 4 armour 3 weapon_lvl 6
    unit Religious Fanatics exp 3 armour 3 weapon_lvl 6
    unit Religious Fanatics exp 3 armour 3 weapon_lvl 6
    unit Religious Fanatics exp 3 armour 3 weapon_lvl 6
    unit Religious Fanatics exp 2 armour 3 weapon_lvl 6
    unit Religious Fanatics exp 2 armour 3 weapon_lvl 6
    unit Religious Fanatics exp 2 armour 3 weapon_lvl 6
    unit Religious Fanatics exp 1 armour 3 weapon_lvl 6
    unit Religious Fanatics exp 1 armour 3 weapon_lvl 6
    unit Religious Fanatics exp 1 armour 3 weapon_lvl 6
    unit AS Catapult exp 3 armour 3 weapon_lvl 6
    unit AS Catapult exp 3 armour 3 weapon_lvl 6
character random_name, heretic, male, age 20, x 169, y 147 
    traits NaturalHereticSkill 3, StrongFaith 3 
character random_name, heretic, male, age 20, x 169, y 147 
    traits NaturalHereticSkill 2, StrongFaith 3 
character random_name, heretic, male, age 20, x 169, y 147 
    traits NaturalHereticSkill 2, StrongFaith 3 
character random_name, heretic, male, age 20, x 169, y 147 
    traits NaturalHereticSkill 1, StrongFaith 3 
character random_name, heretic, male, age 20, x 169, y 147 
    traits NaturalHereticSkill 1, StrongFaith 3 
character random_name, heretic, male, age 20, x 169, y 147 
    traits NaturalHereticSkill 3, StrongFaith 3 
character random_name, heretic, male, age 20, x 169, y 147 
    traits NaturalHereticSkill 2, StrongFaith 3 
character random_name, heretic, male, age 20, x 169, y 147 
    traits NaturalHereticSkill 2, StrongFaith 3 
character random_name, heretic, male, age 20, x 169, y 147 
    traits NaturalHereticSkill 1, StrongFaith 3 
character random_name, heretic, male, age 20, x 169, y 147 
    traits NaturalHereticSkill 1, StrongFaith 3

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campaign_script.txt

;; settlements assaults
monitor_event FactionTurnEnd FactionType papal_states
    if I_CharacterExists Nadziranim_Adelmo
    and not I_SettlementOwner Rome = slave
    and I_TurnNumber = 2
        siege_settlement Nadziranim_Adelmo, Rome, attack
        terminate_monitor
    end_if
end_monitor
 
; ... other generals as same as above ...
 
;; base behavior
monitor_event PreFactionTurnStart FactionType slave
    if I_CharacterExists Nadziranim_Adelmo
    and not I_SettlementOwner Rome = slave
        siege_settlement Nadziranim_Adelmo, Rome, maintain
    end_if
    ;;
    ;; more and more rebel generals maintaining siege on strategic cities
    ;;
end_monitor

I've modified several times my script, but unsuccessfully. Houp ! I forgot to say I prefer that the order of assault occurs IN the target_faction turn. Maybe it's impossible...?

Thanks for your help.

[wuaf²]

Ok pb solved with freeze_faction_ai and unfreeze_faction_ai (after all i need this for the begining)