How to adopt units?

[Warl0rd]

Is there a way or a mod already to allow this:

I attack an enemy unit and would kill it but instead of killing it I adopt this unit, take it prisoner with little health left.

 

[primordial stew]

It's generally called enslavement, and it's in a few mods. There is also a mod-comp, zUnitEnslavement (or something like that).

 

[Popcornlord]

If you have the newest version of BTS i think the mesoamerican mod had something like this.

 

[NikNaks]

There's a tag in UnitInfos called "Capture". Here's an example:

			<Capture>UNITCLASS_WORKER</Capture>

With this, you can make any unit turn into another unit on capture. The above example is used when Workers and Settlers are captured. Now, as they don't fight, I'm not sure if it'd work when the unit has been defeated (whether it would be destroyed as normal), but I'm fairly confident that it would work correctly.

 

[Popcornlord]

Oh yeeah, forgot about that

 

[Warl0rd]

nice thx - it works like expected - but they have full health after "enslaved" any idea how to fix that?

 

[NikNaks]

You might need to dig into Python or SDK for that, sorry. I don't think there's an easy way of doing it.