Leadership style charge ability

[Nyanyanyan]

Hi, I've been trying to make an ability that let's adjacent allies behave as if they had the charge weapon special on their attacks.

After trying it with objects, which seemed very cumbersome and event intensive I settled on doing it with a combination of [leadership] and [resistance], to mixed results.

In general my code works, but because of the different approaches for the allied an enemy damage, it seems to not be 100% consistent. As an example, sometimes, when an opponent would deal 4 damage without my unit being affected by the ability, the opponent will deal 7 damage with the ability in play, instead of the expected 8.

So far at least I have not seen a case where the same unit on both sides will deal different amounts of damage.

Here's my code:

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#define ABILITY_CRUEL_OFFENSIVE
    [leadership]
        id=crueloffensive
		[filter]
		side=$side_number
		[/filter]
        value=100
        cumulative=no
        name= _ "cruel offensive"
        female_name= _ "female^cruel offensive"
        description= _ "Adjacent allied units deal and receive double damage when attacking."
        affect_self=no
        [affect_adjacent]
            [filter]
			side=$other_unit.side
            [/filter]
        [/affect_adjacent]
    [/leadership]
	[resistance] 
		[filter]
		side=$side_number
		[/filter]
        id=crueldefensive
		multiply=2
		sub=50
		[affect_adjacent]
			side=$other_unit.side
		[/affect_adjacent]
    [/resistance]
	
#enddef

Any and all suggestions appreciated.

[Ravana]

1.15 supports [damage] as ability.

This resistance change will not double damage. Instead of multiplying resistance it would need to multiply vulnerability.

[lhybrideur]

You can also look at charge_leadership of LotI
Here is the WML part of the code

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#define ABILITY_CHARGE_LEADERSHIP
	[dummy]
		id=charge_leadership
		name= _ "warlord's rule"
		female_name= _ "female^warlord's rule"
		description= _ "All nearby allies deal and take 50% more damage."
	[/dummy]
#enddef

The lua part is in stats.lua

[newfrenchy83]

in 1.15.3 you can use this

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#define LEADERSHIP_SPECIAL_CHARGE
    # Canned definition of the Charge ability to be included in a
    # [specials] clause.
    [damage]
        id=charge
        name= _ "warlord's rule"
        female_name= _ "female^warlord's rule"
        description= _ "All nearby allies deal and take 50% more damage."
		[filter_student]
		    [filter_weapon]
			range=melee
		    [/filter_weapon]
		[/filter_student]
		active_on=offense
        multiply=2
		cumulative=no
		affect_self=no
		affect_allies=yes
		apply_to=both
		[affect_adjacent]
        [/affect_adjacent]
    [/damage]
#enddef

[Nyanyanyan]

Thanks a lot, that [damage] ability is exactly what I've been looking for.

Is 1.15.3 the official current release that I should make my add-ons for?

[lhybrideur]

No it is a develop release.
Stable releases are even releases and develop releases are odd releases.
Latest stable is 1.14.11