Attack, Reload trigger?

[themare]

In my game I have a Chinese Repeating Crossbowman or Chu-Ko-Nu, and I need a trigger that makes him shoot a few shots rapidly then stops to reload WITHOUT having to stop targeting the target he is alreeady targeting

 

[jig7c]

pause him for however many seconds, and then run the trigger again..
or
set his attack speed to really high... and give him a berserk ability with 500% increase attack speed...
set the duration of berserk to 5 seconds..

 

[Flamesword]

You could have his Attack 1 (in the object editor) have a very long cooldown, and periodically add and remove an "Orb Attack" ability to activate his Attack 2, which is high speed. You would have to make sure the orb ability doesn't alter his performance in a way you don't want.

 

[asipo]

The Silence ability can prevent unit from attacking rite?

 

[LordXavier]

Silence only stops units from casting abilities, not attacking

 

[Dirac]

Add Cargo Hold (orc burrow) to unit - disables the attack
wait x seconds
Remove Cargo Hold (orc burrow) from unit - reenables the attack

 

[eskashaborn]

Trigger it!

You could make some sort of simple GUI trigger saying something like this:

It may need some revising, but it should work pretty well...

Trigger Test
Events
Unit - Footman 0000 <gen> Is issued an order targeting an object
Conditions
(Issued order) Equal to (Order(attack))
Actions
Set AttackedUnit = (Attacked unit)
-------- Whatever time you want based on how your attack speed --------
Wait 1.00 seconds
Unit - Order (Attacking unit) to Stop
Unit - Pause (Attacking unit)
-------- Whatever time you want based on how the reload time you want --------
Wait 3.00 seconds
Unit - Unpause (Attacking unit)
Unit - Order (Attacking unit) to Attack AttackedUnit

 

[Weep]

Silence only stops units from casting abilities, not attacking

Wrong; it's one of the options.