BaseUnit

The UnitType handed to each house at a multiplayer start and counted as a base of its own.

Specification

Applies to: global rules
File: rules.ini
Section: [General]
Value: class
When omitted: none

Nothing about the type itself marks it out; every effect follows from being named here. The one property of the type itself that is read is its DeploysInto.

With bases enabled, each house that is not passive is given one at its starting waypoint, and it is the object a house’s flag is attached to in capture-the-flag. Enabling bases also takes one off the lobby’s unit count to pay for it.
The random starting units are drawn from the AllowedToStartInMultiplayer=yes types with this one held out, and the average price that decides how many are drawn leaves it out too.
In a short game, a house holding no structures and no unit of this type is defeated.
A crate collected by a house that has lost its base and can afford to rebuild delivers one, and with bases disabled the random vehicle result refuses to hand out this type at all.
The Center Base command looks for a structure of the type this one DeploysInto, and falls back to a unit of this type when it finds no building of the player’s at all.

See also — crates, DeploysInto