Soldier choice in the attack box

[Nicolai Hähnle]

The attack box that is displayed when planning to attack an enemy building should give the player a choice as to which soldiers should participate in the attack.

This list can use icons similar to the new soldier list in the military site window.

The list should also indicate somehow which buildings the soldiers come from.

It should still be possible to quickly select just the desired amount of soldiers and have an automatic choice of soldiers selected.

[SirVer (sirver)]

Setting to incomplete for bug sweeping.

[wl-zocker (wl-zocker)]

Choosing every soldier separately is too much micro-management, but choosing the building they come from seems like a good idea. I sometimes have the problem that soldiers come from the "wrong" building (e.g. a building that is not connected to my road network and can therefore not be refilled). I still have not found out how the soldiers that attack are determined.
Additionally, we could have a "Prefer heroes" and "Prefer rookies" button to determine whether strong or weak soldiers should be sent to the enemy. Which soldier is sent will be decided automatically (from the selected buildings the strongest/weakest ones). Default should be heroes.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[SirVer (sirver)]

I think the prefer heroes button/prefer rookie is the best and fits Widelands style the best.

Then again, why would you ever want to attach with rookies? We could just leave the UI as is and launch the strongest soldiers first. If you attach many places your attach waves will get progressively weaker.

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

+1 to heroes first

[Tinker (room101)]

I have noticed that wounded soldiers return to their own buildings to recover after a fight but if a new 'start battle' order is given the wounded soldier returns to fight, it would seem logical that the most wounded soldier would be better off staying in the building and the most healthy were the ones going out to fight.

It seems the order in which soldiers leave military buildings to fight is determined more by the last in first out principle. There are cases where a rookie with 100% health might be preferred to a hero with only 10% health.

I would suggest the selection of soldiers should normally be 100% health hero's, then slightly less healthy hero's, at some point 100% rookies would be preferred (maybe 60 - 70% hero health begins the cutoff) and so on down the list with a very low health rookie at the bottom, though it may always be preferable to leave a hero as defender, perhaps selected by the prefer hero's button.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

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[kaputtnik (franku)]

Just wanted to say: Thanks for this feature, Benedikt :-)

[GunChleoc (gunchleoc)]

Migrated to https://github.com/widelands/widelands/issues/1830