[Trigger] Detecting When a Unit is attacked from the sides or Rear

[Ghost765]

I'm making a map where Dwarves go against The Green Tide (Orks, Gobbies, n Trows) in a winter landscape
naturally, both sides have tanks, since there seem to be a good deal of dwarven/goblin vehicles.
I plan on making the vehicles significantly stronger than infantry, and to balance this out, i figured attacking from the sides or the rear of the target tank should deal more damage.
I got this inspiration from Company of Heroes, where hitting the rear of a tank can destroy the engine, slowing it down, and deals critical damage.

So basically yah, i need a way to detect if a unit is attacked from the sides or rear and then add abunch of random actions, like engine destroyed or such.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

What you do, is finding the facing of the attacker, and the attacked, and then using the correct values, like +5/-5 to make it fit your map.
Then when a unit attacks, and its facing the facing of the attacked (+5/-5) then fo your actions.

This would be for back.

 

[Ghost765]

huh? that like flew over my head. forgive me for my ignorance.

 

[TheBlooddancer]

Re-read it then

Ok, what you do, is checking the facing of a unit, that would be the direction it 'looks'.
If that facing is the same as the attacked unit, it must be attacked directly from the back, which is REALLY hard to do. Thus, you add a +5/-1 till it, so if you attack a unit from the back, or 5 from, then it returns 'Hit from back'- which would be where you put your actions.

 

[Ghost765]

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