How do I get my AI to rearm defences?

[vinc3nt 10]

If I have an AI in a static defence and I send an ammo truck to them, how do I get them to rearm the defence? It seems that humans rearm automatically but not AI.

[Gunter Severloh 4067]

Best you do it yourself, drive ammo truck to it, get out,

get into the static, and then wait til it rearms,

you should see the number on the ammo getting bigger.

[vinc3nt 10]

Best you do it yourself, drive ammo truck to it, get out,

get into the static, and then wait til it rearms,

you should see the number on the ammo getting bigger.

so there's no way of telling them to rearm if your kilometers away? :(

[Gunter Severloh 4067]

I'm not going to say no you cant, i'm just suggesting you do it yourself cuz then you know its rearmed,

but im sure Ai could do it, but you will have to tell them to get the truck,

disembark when they get there, get into the static defense,

and then there might be a option in his menu under 6 where you can tell him to rearm, but if not, then theres not.

Plus you got to make sure the truck is close enough to the thing other wise it wont do it.

Lastly for Ai rearming themselves, not static defenses,

i reccomend this mod:

http://www.armaholic.com/page.php?id=6844

[vinc3nt 10]

I'm not going to say no you cant, i'm just suggesting you do it yourself cuz then you know its rearmed,

but im sure Ai could do it, but you will have to tell them to get the truck,

disembark when they get there, get into the static defense,

and then there might be a option in his menu under 6 where you can tell him to rearm, but if not, then theres not.

Plus you got to make sure the truck is close enough to the thing other wise it wont do it.

I've tested it in the editor - I placed an ammo truck very close to a defence (and when I fired it, it self-rearmed as it should). Then when I tell my AI teammate to get in, it does not self-rearm.

There is an option to tell the AI to rearm at the ammo truck though, so I tell the AI to do this and he responds 'Roger'. But 10 mins waiting and not one shell has been armed into the defence.:(

I was wondering if there was a unusual way of using several commands to finally get the AI to rearm but it doesn’t seem likely

Edited August 31, 2010 by vinc3nt

[recon101 10]

I was just trying to figure this out myself. Thats kinda stupid not to have the AI rearm if they are in a static defense and there is an ammo truck parked right next to them.

[Wolfrug 0]

The ammo truck only rearms if its rear is facing towards the unit to be rearmed - and odd nod to realism, considering the whole rearming bit is practically magic anwyay, but there you have it. In the editor, try parking the truck backwards towards the static defence and see if it rearms then (if it still doesn't, then it's a bug).

If this is your own mission, you can of course easily script a workaround :)

Regards,

Wolfrug

[Big Dawg KS 6]

Rearm/refuel/repair orders require the AI to move the vehicle to a certain position and complete that move before performing the action. That's probably what's getting you (static weapons cannot be moved obviously, so it always fails).

[Grizzle 0]

The ammo truck only rearms if its rear is facing towards the unit to be rearmed - and odd nod to realism, considering the whole rearming bit is practically magic anwyay, but there you have it. In the editor, try parking the truck backwards towards the static defence and see if it rearms then (if it still doesn't, then it's a bug).

If this is your own mission, you can of course easily script a workaround :)

Regards,

Wolfrug

Out of curiousity I tried this and that seems to be the key. Who woulda thunk?

[vinc3nt 10]

I've added it to the issue tracker as I would call it a bug: http://dev-heaven.net/issues/13539

[ilmari 10]

And what about ammo crates? Is there a way to make enemy AI rearm their static weapons using nearby ammo crates? Except for frantic scripting of course. :)