Paladin Tank's autonomous AA weapon?

[XxpeddyxX]

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Is it possible in RA2/Ares?

I haven't looked into it and search comes up with nothing.

Basically I want a tank that you can order to attack ground units as per usual but it automatically fires at aircraft inbetween ground attacks without pausing or switching targets.

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It's not normally possible as units can only handle one target at a time. You can use InitialPayload & OpenTopped to add an AA infantry to the unit that will auto attack targets tho.

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Ooooh yes of course, never crossed my mind.

Code:

[TANK]
Survivor.RookiePassengerChance=0
Survivor.VeteranPassengerChance=0
Survivor.ElitePassengerChance=0
NoManualUnload=yes
NoManualEnter=yes
Passengers=1
OpenTopped=yes;passengers can shoot out
InitialPayload.Types=LSRDUDE
InitialPayload.Nums=1

[LSRDUDE]
DistributedFire=yes

Works exactly as I wanted it to, cheers.

[cxtian39]

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Except that it can't promote when the tank promotes

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cxtian39 wrote:

Except that it can't promote when the tank promotes

XxpeddyxX wrote:

Works exactly as I wanted it to, cheers.

Emphasis on the "exactly as I wanted it to"  

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Maybe not what you ment:
http://ares-developers.github.io/Ares-docs/new/customizableveterancy.html?highlight=passenger

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PillBox20 wrote:

Maybe not what you ment:
http://ares-developers.github.io/Ares-docs/new/customizableveterancy.html?highlight=passenger

Emm...
Set the cost of the inside infantry to 0.

Code:

Experience.FromPassengers=yes; Laser kills gives exp to the Paladin
Experience.PromotePassengers=yes; When Paladin is elite, one more kill gets the laser elite?

But still not simultaneously? I think I will test it later today

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If you want it to work that way I guess you can make the infantry and the vehicle cost the same, and just have them share 100% of the experience so the infantry ranks up with the vehicle and vice versa.

I had this set similarly on my battle fortress. Because of price differences the infantry always got promoted before the unit but still achieved the desired result. I could be wrong.

My unit is getting the laser via an upgrade which I wanted to be a one off and not trainable. I'll test this later though.

EDIT:

So it cannot rank up simultaneously with the unit. Also I just noticed that while it will acquire air targets normally and not ground targets (AA only projectile) BUT it can force fire onto ground targets (when you ask the unit to attack a ground target by hand, normally it will just fire at it without the infantry firing as well), is there any way to stop this without using custom warheads/armors?

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XxpeddyxX wrote:

is there any way to stop this without using custom warheads/armors?

LandTargeting=1?

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cxtian39 wrote:

XxpeddyxX wrote:

is there any way to stop this without using custom warheads/armors?

LandTargeting=1?

Oh thought that was for buildings only oops, full went and made custom armors lmao

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Pretty sure the Points= value determines how fast something levels up, and if their experience can't be linked via Ares, then I'd just make the passenger have Points=1000 or something?

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I tought the same, but I think the points are used in the endgame screen with the results. Cost= is the real key to leveling up and

"VeteranRatio=5.0       ; must destroy this multiple of self-value to become a veteran [per level]"

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Yes points are just for the score screen. Veterancy is calculated by unit cost.

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XxpeddyxX wrote:

Oh thought that was for buildings only oops, full went and made custom armors lmao

How do you deal with paratroopers...

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cxtian39 wrote:

XxpeddyxX wrote:

Oh thought that was for buildings only oops, full went and made custom armors lmao

How do you deal with paratroopers...

In generals the laser was only used against missile projectiles, I want to keep it similar to that (spawned missiles/aircraft)

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CustomArmor on the Dummy Infantry's Weapon should suffice.

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