Well this didnt really bother me before like when i used an arbiter to cloak my units or something, i would just click my units and make them attack manually...

but now i have a trigger that creates cloaked ghosts that are supposed to attack the nearby enemy before getting killed via trigger (Death Counter counts down from 10, ghosts die at 0)
(yes i tried Order, Attack)

so basically, is there a way to make cloaked units attack automatically without them needing to be detected by the enemy or a nearby friendly unit needing to be attacked first?

ghosts dont auto attack when cloaked, to keep with their infiltration role. anything else will i think, but not ghosts

Try issuing an order to the Ghosts to attack, right after you create them.

Use patrol instead. I'm not sure if it will work, as I always use hold position to make them attack.

deng... so its just because they are ghosts? aight, thx

o and i tried the patrol thing, it was a no go =\