Hi

I searched for this question here on the forums but could not find anything relevant.

I'm trying to create a Map where at least some of the AI's only attack with land units and don't build any air units at all. These are Zerg AI's, and I want them to do some massive (and constant) attacks using all sorts of land based units (hydras, zerglings, ultralisks, etc) but I don't want them to create any air units.

I've tried disabling the 'Spire' building but that only made the AI's stop attacking completely after a few land based attack waves. They're probably trying to follow a 'build order' and getting stuck or something.

Is there any way to achieve what I'm trying?

Thanks for reading this and please help if you can!

Cheers,
Pipanni

If modding to write your own AI script isn't something you're willing to do, your closest bet is Brood War Protoss 5 - A and B. They send mostly ground units, but still have a few waves with air units. Since those scripts are nothing but attack preparations, I think you can disable the air units for those without risk of it hanging up (but I'm not 100% certain about that, should test), and you can run them multiple times to create larger or more frequent attacks. You can also run them alongside more typical town scripts if you want the AI to not be idle, but you'll still want one that won't get stuck on the units & tech you've disabled.

Could go with P5A and B, every air attack will waste 180s but that's unavoidable if you disable units. Needs town management from something to do everything properly, Protoss 10 - Mini Towns Master could be used but it'll similarly wait 180s through some attacks that have mutas/guards in them. Since neither of those train units they won't get stuck, but some priority issues will pop up

Otherwise, looking over them, even the earliest zerg scripts use some mutas so yeah xd Protoss 9 - Ground Zerg attacks only with ground units but its pretty damn bad otherwise

If you have experience with advanced mapping software, I have an EUD trick in mind that can provide an easy solution.

Using EUD Editor (or other DatEdit software), you could modify all of the Mutalisk's properties to match that of a zergling. Therefore, when the AI tries to morph mutalisks, they appear and act as zerglings while the AI still thinks they are mutas.

This of course isn't limited to mutas; you can make any unit look/behave like any other unit in the game and the AI shouldn't be disrupted by it.

MTiger's solution could lead to other problems like the AI calling for mutalisks to defend against air units (sometimes over impassable terrain), but these defense calls vary from script to script.

Just write a small attack script with low wait timer value between attacks, and be sure tell it to build a bunch of hatcheries (like 3-4). If done properly it may hit surprisingly hard. (I think Blizzard did something similar in Warcraft II: Beyond the Dark Portal where most of the time the green orc clan would be limited to tier 1 unit but use loads of them).

Fail that you can also consider the TB3A script (Brood Wars Terran 3 - Town A) but it only builds zerglings and ultralisks, not even hydralisks (and so is totally defenseless against air, which is the whole point as in that mission you are supposed to trash its base with wraiths). However using the stock campaign scripts is (most of the time) a ... less than stellar idea. Better than seeing the most standard Easy/Normal/Hard/Insane being used all over again as most campaigns do, for sure, but a lot of the vanilla/BW campaign scripts aren't very good at attacking (having huge waits between waves) or even defense.

There are a few gems among the BW scripts I would heartily recommend (and am/was using myself), though, so it's not all junk.

Post has been edited 4 time(s), last time on Aug 3 2019, 7:49 am by IlyaSnopchenko.