Scripted Ambush Battle in Campaign

[antiochos_hierax]

I want to know if there is a way to force a scripted ambush battle, I've scripted the spawning of the 2 armies at a specific turn (one army mine the other slave) and get them to attack each other, but is there a way to make it so my army ambushes the slave army? (I'm recreating a historical battle and want the ambushing for roleplay reasons)
Thanks

[Lusitanio]

Try ordering your army to move to an ambush position and then the rebel army to move there too, creating that ambush battle.

[Withwnar]

I've scripted the spawning of the 2 armies at a specific turn ... and get them to attack each other

Via engage_armies? I've never scripted an ambush attack but I suspect that this command would never be an ambush battle, because you're telling the first character to attack the second. Whereas ambushes happen by the second character walking into the first's ZOC. Try using the move command instead to create that scenario.

The first character would need to be in 'waiting in ambush' mode, i.e. hiding in sparse forest, as Lusitanio said. From memory, spawning them on a sparse forest tile does not put them in hiding mode, though they might switch to that mode next turn, though the player might have moved them by then. I seem to recall there's a way of putting an army in ambush mode in descr_strat. Could be wrong about that and I'll bet it doesn't work in script anyway.

EDIT: oh, just realised that I misread Lusitanio's post. Yeah, spawning and then walking (move) him into sparse forest could work.

[antiochos_hierax]

Thanks to both, I'll try it that way and will update.

[z3n]

I'd probably give the ambushing army a leader with a trait that allows them to have a high chance of ambushing regardless.