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Haste Berry Pie has Age of Wonders III

3 Oct, 2022 @ 4:39pm

Spawn custom stack of units on top of Leader?

So yeah, conditional army markers (weak, medium, strong, etc.) work in this regard, but is it possible to spawn a custom stack of units on top of a Leader?

When I try to do this with SpawnGroupSpawnAtPosition, the custom stack is forced to a hex adjacent to the Leader.

My guess at what's happening: At start of game, Leader is spawned with its own stackAlias before anything else, and therefore custom stack (with its own stackAlias) cannot merge.

I tried other functions, like OnPostActivate, thinking maybe if I can spawn the custom stack FIRST, then the Leader might automatically merge with it - as we see in conditional army markers (although I don't even really know how conditional army markers work under-the-hood). This didn't work.

Any way to get around this?

Last edited by Haste Berry Pie; 3 Oct, 2022 @ 4:40pm

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Gladen

3 Oct, 2022 @ 9:36pm

Why not spawn individual units on top of the leader? Or use the leader arrow as a marker to spawn units on

Haste Berry Pie has Age of Wonders III

4 Oct, 2022 @ 9:14pm

Your suggestions helped me think outside the box and see something I had missed - that I've been trying to do this on top of a city.

You actually can spawn a custom stack on top of leader if it's out in the open. So, that's no longer an issue.

Problem now is...spawning units, on top of leader, ON TOP OF CITY.

Seems it's not working because cities have a default defender setting, where you set the strength of the defenders spawn. You can also disable them, which is what I've been doing, so I could spawn the custom stack. But this obviously doesn't work.

I tried all sorts of janky ideas to get around this today, but no luck. I'll try again tomorrow, but it might be impossible to do this without using conditional army stacks.

Haste Berry Pie has Age of Wonders III

6 Oct, 2022 @ 5:38pm

I gave up lol. I guess we're forced to use conditional stacks to spawn units on central city hex, which is a lot more complicated and can be a total nightmare depending on what you're trying to do.

I'm just gonna spawn the units nearby.