GreenScorpion
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Having worked as a farmer and woodcutter for most of my life i became determined to do something that would leave my mark after i was gone. Since then i got back to studies, and i have now a master degree in Electrotecnical Engineering as well as a degree on Electromechanical Engineering. On my free time i like playing and so i became interested in creating my own games or, in the shorter term, modding games to get something closer to what i would like games to be.
Both the waagh walls and the latest version of RT2's walls with guns for orks have been seen here before. The secondary line of defensive walls now work similar to building listening posts on strategic points, which means after you have built the basic walls you may place the secondary walls in positions that have the basic ones. You can only place one secondary wall for each basic wall built but being independent buildings they actually have their own hitpoints and may have different armour/susceptibilities.
In case you are wondering about the reasons of this change in implementation, it is mostly because the previous method for building the secondary walls in an upgrade like way was a work around with flaws that could be exploited by people with patience. This method although less versatile works based on the same method as the listening posts and thus with no exploitable flaws.
This method requires heavy modifications of the AI. Normally buildings listed up in the build program are checked with SquadAI:CanBuild(ebpid). For these walls you have to use SquadAI:CanBuildAt(ebpid, pos).
The easiest way would be writing a new tactic for Gretchinz. But this way you wouldn't know the current battlefield situation and whether it is valueable to build a secondary wall.
Another option would be extending the OrkBuildBaseStrategy:BuildFlexible() function to search for Gretchinz when a secondary wall is needed.
But if you want to use the build program it would be even more tricky.