Group retaliate

[TaranDahl]

Group retaliate

• In vanilla, only the unit itself will counter - attack when it takes damage. This often makes units stupidly lured away one by one and eliminated.
• Now you can make units "seek support from nearby friendly units" when they take damage. They will retaliate the attacker together with the victim.
  • GroupRetaliate.AllowAI and GroupRetaliate.AllowPlayer control whether this effect applies to AI units and player units respectively.
  • The attacker's threat must be higher than the GroupRetaliate.ThreatThreshold of the unit's current target to trigger retaliation.
  • GroupRetaliate.GroupRange controls the range within which the victim can call for friendly forces.
  • GroupRetaliate.TraceExtraRange controls the distance for retaliating against the attacker. When the attacker is farther from the unit than the unit's guard range + TraceExtraRange, retaliation will not be triggered.
• An additional option DisableVanillaRetaliateBehavior is provided to turn off the vanilla retaliation behavior.

In rulesmd.ini:

[General]
GroupRetaliate.AllowAI=false             ; boolean
GroupRetaliate.AllowPlayer=false         ; boolean
GroupRetaliate.ThreatThreshold=1000.0    ; float, range in cell
GroupRetaliate.GroupRange=7.0            ; float, range in cell
GroupRetaliate.TraceExtraRange=20.0      ; float, range in cell
DisableVanillaRetaliateBehavior=false    ; boolean

[SOMETECHNO]                             ; TechnoType
GroupRetaliate.GroupRange=               ; float, range in cell, default to [General] -> GroupRetaliate.GroupRange

The unit must be able to trigger the vanilla retaliation behavior in order to trigger group retaliate.

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[deathreaperz]

What's the difference between Ares' TeamRetaliate and this one?

[TaranDahl]

What's the difference between Ares' TeamRetaliate and this one?

As the name implies, TeamRetaliate only takes effect on units with a Team, and only on units of the same Team.
Here, Group does not refer to anything special. It refers to all friendly troops within a certain range around the unit.