How to make units run&attack

[Cmeyer24]

Ok, heres another question,
how do I continuously make units spawn and then tell them to go to a certain place, but attack everything it sees before it goes to that place, what I mean is like what they have going in DotA and Hero Wars. I want to spawn oh say 20 or so at a time them make them go to an area and destroy something but kill towers/units before it goes to kill the thing it was commanded too. Also I am meaning for this to be done from a trigger not from a player, the computer will own these units.

I know how to make units go to an area but they dont attack anything they just run to the area, so please help me out with this.

 

[Nathano]

If you already can make units move to the area you want, you probably used:

Unit - Order <unit> to Move To (Center of <region>)

instead, try using

Unit - Order <unit> to Attack-Move To (Center of <region>)

 

[Cmeyer24]

hmmm

Thats only one unit though....8 / I'm talking about like 20 or more

 

[m0rph3s]

Spawn in a region.

If you spawn them all in a region...then after you spawn them all:

Unit Group - Pick every unit in (Units in SPAWNREGION <gen> matching ((Owner of (Picked unit)) Equal to COMPUTER (Brown))) and do (Unit - Order (Picked unit) to Attack-Move To (Center of DESTREGION <gen>))

Or whatever attack-move destination you want. ;0

 

[Nathano]

I think it's better if you treat every unit as a specific unit instead of as a part of a unit group. I have made a map that uses such a system too, and this is how I did it:

Waypoint 1
    Events
        Unit - A unit enters <Waypoint 1>
    Conditions
    Actions
        If ((Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to <Troop Type 1>) then do (Unit - Order (Triggering unit) to Attack-Move To (Center of <Waypoint 2>)) else do (Do nothing)
        If ((Unit-type of (Triggering unit)) Equal to <Troop Type 2>) then do (Unit - Order (Triggering unit) to Attack-Move To (Center of <Waypoint 0>)) else do (Do nothing)

In my case, troop type 1 were swordsmen and troop type 2 were skeletons, those two troops being enemy's of eachother. In total I used about 5 or six waypoints, each having it's own similar trigger to order the units to attack-move to the next waypoint.

It worked perfectly for me.