How Do You Delay Support in a Scenario

[Navaronegun]

All,

Reposting this from the Modder's Corner to reach a wider audience.

I have card settings I am utilizing as a baseline in a Campaign. How do I specifically use support at a predtermined point in the scenario. Lets say naval support arrives on turn 10 or air support is available on turn 10. How do I script that without altering the cards?

Nav

[pipfromslitherine]

I was sure that someone would respond . Do you mean you want to delay the ability for the user to use a bonus, or that you want to cause a bonus to happen at a given point in the game?

Cheers

Pip

[Navaronegun]

I was sure that someone would respond . Do you mean you want to delay the ability for the user to use a bonus, or that you want to cause a bonus to happen at a given point in the game?

Cheers

Pip

Delay the ability for use until a specific point in the scenario. Dawn, essentially in this case, but allow use from that point forward.

Nav

[pipfromslitherine]

You would need to look at the specific bonus you want to affect, but you can just reset the cooldown each turn using SetScriptGlobal I would think.

Cheers

Pip

[Navaronegun]

You would need to look at the specific bonus you want to affect, but you can just reset the cooldown each turn using SetScriptGlobal I would think.

Cheers

Pip

Well, I tried that, but that just reset the cooldown rate. It was still available on turn 1.

Nav

[AndrewGardner]

You can call SetScriptGlobal("25pdrBattery", "gCounter", -6) for example on turn 0 to delay availability of an artillery bonus or air strike.

To figure out the number to set, subtract the number of turns you want to delay from the DELAY stat for that bonus in cards.txt.

Note this technique wouldn't work on a bonus assigned to both sides (ex Revive), you could add a function to the bonus in that case and call it using CallBonusFunction.

[Navaronegun]

Thanks, Andrew. So in the example above, if the card was set at delay 6, and I gave it the above value, it would be available on turn 12?