Priority?

[Craphter]

Hi all, I have a castle and two towers that defend it. What i want is that the creeps first attack the towers and THEN the castle, so, i don't want to use triggers, because if i order to attack the towers it wont attack other heros that are in the game, so it wont work.
How to do that?

 

[burnthemprisons]

Well without triggers the only thing I can think of is giving the towers a taunt ability, and triggering it to go off every couple seconds or so...

This situation could be absolved with triggers though.

this is a pretty dumbed down version, but something like this could work too:

Where Tower1_isDead and Tower2_isDead are boolean variables, and my_Unit_Group is a Unit Group Variable:

• Events
  • Unit - A unit Dies
• Conditions
• Actions
  • If (all conditions are true, then do actions)
    • Conditions
      • (Dying Unit) Equal to (Tower1)
    • Then
      • Set (Tower1_isDead) = True
    • Else
      • Do Nothing
  • If (all conditions are true, then do actions)
    • Conditions
      • (Dying Unit) Equal to (Tower2)
    • Then
      • Set (Tower2_isDead) = True
    • Else
      • Do Nothing

• Events
  • Unit - A unit is attacked
• Conditions
  • Unit-Type of attacked unit Equal to Castle
• Actions
  • If (all conditions are true, then do actions)
    • Conditions
      • (Tower1_isDead Equal to False) or (Tower2_isDead Equal to False)
    • Then
      • Set my_Unit_Group = Units owned by (Enemy)
      • Unit Group - Remove Castle from my_Unit_Group
      • Unit - Order (attacking unit) to attack (Random unit from (my_Unit_Group))
    • Else
      • Do Nothing

This will make your units attack other units before attacking the castle

 

[DarkAngelAzazel]

1. If you use a trigger to tell the creeps to attack the castle use "attack-move (position of castle)"
Not attack castle!

2. Remove damage of the castle. I think units will attack the one with the most damage first

 

[burnthemprisons]

acually im not sure on this at all, but doesn't the stats - priority field affect targeting? isn't that what it's for? if im wrong please correct me I rarely encouter this circumstance.
also the unit's level? And I believe AI script will lower attack priority for peon type units too.

 

[Craphter]

Ok, thanks a lot, it worked +rep