Carpet bombing LUA

hunterw · Post by **hunterw** » 22 Jul 2007, 03:41

can someone make one? it would be incredibly helpful to be able to select a big group of bombers and then drag out an attack circle for them to randomly drop bombs in

Post by **trepan** » 22 Jul 2007, 03:43

Area Attack?

Snipawolf · Post by **Snipawolf** » 22 Jul 2007, 03:58

Archangel of Death · Post by **Archangel of Death** » 22 Jul 2007, 07:25

How about one that changes the randomly chosen target spots every so often? That would be an improvement.

LOrDo · Post by **LOrDo** » 22 Jul 2007, 08:37

I would like it better if when you draw the circle it dosn't randomly select points, it selects enemy units instead. Unless of course its unexplored or theres more bombers then units, then random selection would be just fine.

hunterw · Post by **hunterw** » 22 Jul 2007, 09:48

trepan wrote:Area Attack?

Doesn't work. Observe (and disregard gfx on this crappy computer):

I select my 15 bombers, press A, then hold shift and drag out the area attack square over all of those evil kboy labs. All the planes queue the labs up in order, and they all fly and drop their bombs in the same exact place, which is exactly the opposite of carpet bombing.

It's pretty much impossible to micro carpet bombing, as you need to individually select planes and give them each different targets, but you want them to all be flying in at the same exact time.

If area attack randomly selected targets within itself for all the different units we would be in business!

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 22 Jul 2007, 10:03

The one that says AREA ATTACK

hunterw · Post by **hunterw** » 22 Jul 2007, 10:08

hunterw wrote:can someone make one? it would be incredibly helpful to be able to select a big group of bombers and then drag out an attack circle for them to randomly drop bombs in

YESSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

they listened to me!!

Peet · Post by **Peet** » 22 Jul 2007, 10:39

Uh...that's been there for a few versions.

Licho · Post by **Licho** » 22 Jul 2007, 12:38

Its there for like 2 years..

AF · Post by AF » 22 Jul 2007, 12:41

You could always just rightclick drag on an enemy.

Ishach · Post by **Ishach** » 22 Jul 2007, 13:42

AF wrote:You could always just rightclick drag on an enemy.

Right click dragging on an enemy is the same thing as pressing A and drawing a box- Which is the exact thing hunterw was saying was inadequate.

But hey, who cares if you dont know what you're talking about when you can get a sweet +1 to your postcount

AF · Post by AF » 22 Jul 2007, 14:21

I could troll, or I could read from the gospel of trepan.

LOrDo · Post by **LOrDo** » 23 Jul 2007, 00:31

lmao at hunter

AF · Post by AF » 23 Jul 2007, 04:07

hmmm, spring used to issue an attack ara command on right click drag if it was a bomber but now it just does the ractangle thing trepan added.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 23 Jul 2007, 08:02

Just hit shift+A before dragging the circle.

Post by **trepan** » 23 Jul 2007, 08:32

The default keybinding for area attack is ALT+A.

KDR_11k · Post by **KDR_11k** » 23 Jul 2007, 10:15

Ah, okay. I never used the hotkey for that...

Dragon45 · Post by **Dragon45** » 24 Jul 2007, 20:24

Woo, hotkey! :O

ty trepan

Neddie · Post by **Neddie** » 24 Jul 2007, 22:34

I'm a non-hotkey player, myself, but thanks.

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Carpet bombing LUA

Carpet bombing LUA