Meleeing

[GeneralJ927]

Hey there, i'm wondering if anyone has managed to make a weapon to just melee, what i mean is, if i get my soldier to equip a knife/crowbar he or she will use melee forever and i do not need to press the button to cause that soldier to engage with a melee attack.

Its for an idea i have.

[Derriese]

Toss out his Gun, he will use his grenades if he has them and if not then he'll run up and punch them.
Alternatively, you can just hotkey the Melee button, just drag it onto your HUD ingame.

Whats your idea anyhow? ima curious

Knives are generally thrown by the AI anyway.

[ShtoormoVick]

Hey there, i'm wondering if anyone has managed to make a weapon to just melee, what i mean is, if i get my soldier to equip a knife/crowbar he or she will use melee forever and i do not need to press the button to cause that soldier to engage with a melee attack.

Its for an idea i have.

Yeah, I had the same thought, but it went even a bit further: say, it wouldn't be bad, if you had a choice to set your infantry to go into an auto melee at a certain range? Just as some sort of a battle-order command.

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Toss out his Gun, he will use his grenades if he has them and if not then he'll run up and punch them.
Alternatively, you can just hotkey the Melee button, just drag it onto your HUD ingame.

Whats your idea anyhow? ima curious

Knives are generally thrown by the AI anyway.

No, he won't do sh!t if he has no weapons at all in your inventory (and if he does, he'll auto-switch to it when ordered to attack), so you're doomed to press F7 and mark the target every time you want him to go melee, unlike if you send him into some area with a fire arm - this way the guy is smart enough to shoot any enemy in sight, unless he's not told not to do so.

[Derriese]

No, he won't do sh!t if he has no weapons at all in your inventory (and if he does, he'll auto-switch to it when ordered to attack), so you're doomed to press F7 and mark the target every time you want him to go melee, unlike if you send him into some area with a fire arm - this way the guy is smart enough to shoot any enemy in sight, unless he's not told not to do so.

I'm literally watching my guy right now run up and smack em in the face with no gear but an empty thompson with no ammo so are you sure your guys inventory is completely bare?

[ShtoormoVick]

That's odd, for prior to posting I have performed a field test myself... ???

OK, I'll have to re-check this once more, thanks for your notice.

However it proves, it isn't the point though. You see, ripping your men off all the firearms and ammo, prior to sending them into a sort of a bayonet-charge, is not quite what is desired.

Nope, still no luck, except for the time when the guy is standing point-blank he doesn't engage in melee.
All in all: there seems to be no way to send a trooper into a melee attack, but to directly order him to "punch that fellow" (F7)

[GeneralJ927]

Whats your idea anyhow? ima curious

Swords: axes, maces, lances, daggers, polearms, that sort of thing.

[GeneralJ927]

Got it to work no longer have to press the melee button to engage in melee combat with weapons i select, created new so theres still the button to use with other non-melee weapons.

Just got to create an AI attack file now so they will use this melee.

[ShtoormoVick]

Cool!
Hope, you'll make it as a little mod, since I hate overwriting files - every integrity check becomes a pain in the ass.

[Evilsausage]

I sense a medieval men of war mod comming up :P

[Binboy]

I remember once a while back, my officer was in the plains and there was an enemy soldier crawling and ninjaing around, so I decided, yeah my officer can deal with him, as I had the initative. I took out my trusty colt 45, that my officer had, then he ran up right behind the ninja, then I told him to attack, but the officer had other plans then he holstered his colt 45 and took out his binoculars and began to stare directly down onto the ass of the enemy soldier who consequently, turned around and shot the officer in the face.