Changing a unit's attack-type

[RidgeDweller]

Hello, I know you can change unit's armor type with a simple upgrade -but is there a way to do this with attack types also????

A little background: I am in the process of creating a map and basically I want a group of special units having their attack changed to chaos as a result of an event.

Is this possible? And if so what's the easiest way to accomplish this?

In case Im not providing enough info the units are essentially knights and are intended to gain a chaos-type attack instead of their regular-type attack as a result of being blessed by a god.

 

[Daffa]

Use Chaos ability and deal with slight weird bug it has, or use triggers

 

[Prince Aerrus]

The easiest way, assuming the unit whose attack type you're trying to change only has a single attack and not two different attacks is to duplicate its first attack as attack two, only change the attack type to chaos, then make an upgrade that enables the second attack - this has the efffect of disabling the first attack leaving the unit only able to use the second attack, which does chaos type damage.

So make a unit have two identical attacks, the attack type of the first is whatever you want, while the attack type of the second is chaos.

Make an upgrade that enables the second attack, give this upgrade to the unit and make a trigger that researches an upgrade.

Here's an example of what the upgrade would look like.

 

[RidgeDweller]

Thanks alot man-this works perfectly

 

[RidgeDweller]

Use Chaos ability and deal with slight weird bug it has, or use triggers

What bugs does it have

 

[Prince Aerrus]

Thanks alot man-this works perfectly

No problem; that's what this forum is for

 

[RidgeDweller]

So what bugs does chaos have

 

[Daffa]

Quite a number I can't remember. I recall it absorb all aura effect into it's stats.

 

[Uncle]

Eventually we will be able to use this. At the moment it doesn't work.

• Unit - Set Unit: SomeUnit's Weapon Integer Field: Attack Attack Type ('ua1t')at Index:0 to Value: 0

 

[Prince Aerrus]

Quite a number I can't remember. I recall it absorb all aura effect into it's stats.

Thanks for letting us know I was completely unaware