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DeployToFire

Makes a vehicle attack by deploying into its DeploysInto structure on buildable ground, and stops a human player's vehicle from searching for targets.

Specification
Applies to
UnitType
File
rules.ini
Section
[<ObjectType ID>]
Value
boolean
When omitted
no

A vehicle with the flag never fires its own weapon. Once its target is in range and it is ready to fire or needs only to turn, it deploys into its DeploysInto structure instead, and the structure takes over the target. The deploy follows the same rules as a deploy order, so it fails if the structure cannot be placed there.

rules.ini
[MYSIEGETANK] ; a UnitType registered in [VehicleTypes]
DeployToFire=yes
DeploysInto=MYSIEGEGUN ; a BuildingType registered in [BuildingTypes]

Give the vehicle a DeploysInto structure, no passenger capacity and no harvesting role. The flag starts the vehicle’s ordinary deploy action, so:

  • a vehicle with Passengers above 0 unloads its passengers instead of deploying;
  • a Harvester=yes or Weeder=yes vehicle runs its unload action instead;
  • a vehicle with no DeploysInto structure never attacks, except that an IsMobileEMP=yes one releases its pulse once fully charged.

The vehicle deploys only from a cell that meets All of:

  • it has no ramp;
  • it holds no structure;
  • its land type sets Buildable=yes.

From any other cell, the vehicle drives to a qualifying cell before it deploys. It picks one within its weapon range of the target and no more than two cells farther from the target than it already is. If it finds no such cell it can reach, it gives up the target and moves to a cell near it.

A vehicle owned by a human player never searches for targets. It attacks what it is ordered to, and it can still strike back at an enemy that damages it, unless its DeploysInto structure sets Artillary=yes. A computer-controlled vehicle keeps its ordinary target search.

See also — DeploysInto, NoMovingFire, Buildable