Wesnoth refuses to identify my weapon special...

[A Guy]

Okay, may someone please tell me where I went wrong here? The special has its effect, but there's no name.

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[attacks]
    id=attack_only
    name= _ "attack only"
    description= _ "Attack Only:
    This attack cannot be used to retaliate."
    active_on=defense
    value=0
[/attacks]

[Dragonchampion]

Try [damage]

I think that's what we've been doing wrong.

[Mist]

What do you mean by "there's no name?"
The name doesn't show outside combat? You need to add name_inactive and description_inactive keys. Specials as opposed to abilities are by default inactive outside combat, if you want them shown in unit description all the tame you need to remember that.

[Dragonchampion]

He was trying to make a special that makes it so that a unit cannot attack with the weapon in defense, but it wouldn't work. Don't worry, we solved it.

[A Guy]

Ah, thank you, Mist. Guess there was a use for name_inactive and description_inactive after all.

[Tet]

If you want to not use one weapon on the defence but their is another weapon instead, you could alter some strange settings without a special. It was in one of the wikis. Sorry for not beeing more specific. I believe many units use this to determine one of more possible defence weapons automatically.

[Jozrael]

I believe it was an attribute that meant the AI weighted the weapon more heavily when comparing which one to use on defense.