Casualty count?

[kleaner2 0]

I am looking to include a casualty count in a mission.

I would like to track the following by group:

wounded

dead

Let's say I have a group called testgroup.

How do I go through the array to figure out whether each one's dammage level? Do it through a loop? Is there an eaiser way?

Ideas? Thanks.

[Spinor 0]

The Count command could be useful for this, I would do it the following way:

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_group = _this select 0

;this determines the initial number of units when calling

;the script

_initialNumber = Count (Units _group)

#Loop

  _units = Units _group

  ;counting all alive units

  _alive = "Alive _x" Count _units

  ;calculating casualties since initialization

  _casualties = _initialNumber - _alive

  ;counting all alive units with damage > 0.5

  _wounded = "(Alive _x) AND ((GetDammage _x) > 0.5)" Count _units

  Hint Format ["Casualties: %1\nWounded: %2", _casualties, _wounded]

  ~30

Goto "Loop"

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Call this script with group as argument like

  [testgroup] exec "CasualtyCount.sqs".

It should hint the number of casualties since calling the script and the number of wounded (Damage > 0.5) every 30 seconds.

Instead of checking the damage, you could also check for

  !(CanStand _x)

which returns true when the unit is unable to walk.

Hope this helps,

Spinor

[kleaner2 0]

Thanks for the help. That looks like an excellent script. I will have to try it later.