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Right, I am utterly baffled. I have asked a couple of people before now, but I don't think I knew enough to explain properly what I meant - now I have achieved the level of knowledge where I am now aware of my ignorance, so here is precisely what I want.

I have made a 4 player map with fixed TCs as a skirmish map in ME. I cannot change the starting units in Map Setup, nor in game launch when I run it as a test, and it defaults me to one starting worker.

I wish to have the Many Units start - 2 workers, 2 light horse - in each players starting TC. I was recommended to try triggers, and I looked at them, and then my brain melted and dribbled out my ears!

How do I trigger it so that everyone starts with those 4 units? I think I have my head straight with the things like Nr1, Nr2, Player Nr, co-ordinates etc, but what conditions and effects do I want?
Presumably the condition is to set the cond: Player1's turn Nr1 has started to the desired settings....?
What effect would then let me place the desired units in the starting TCs?

Cheers guys

Not difficult. Tried once today.
Don't wanna put pictures here because maximum Attachments size in forum is too small. Just explain it by words.

1. Put a a Town, two workers(W1&W2) & light cavalry(L1&L2) into the map draft.
(Example:Put Town in area X/Y -> 1/1, W1 -> 2/2, W2 -> 2/3, L1 -> 2/4, L2 -> 2/5)

2. Open trigger editor. Open a new trigger file (trigger 1).
Condition: Obj (L2) in Area (2/5) //so it triggered instantly when you open the map
Eff: Change Obj (W1) position (2/2) to Area XY (1/1) //put worker into town
Eff: Change Obj (W2) position (2/3) to Area XY (1/1) //put worker into town
Eff: Change Obj (L1) position (2/4) to Area XY (1/1) //put light cav into town
Eff: Change Obj (L2) position (2/5) to Area XY (1/1) //put light cav into town
Eff: Objs enable in Area
(PLAYER 1)(-No Units-)(Area1/1)(to1/1) //All units within that area enabled(I use this effect to offset movement by triggers that set above )

3. Repeat 1-2 with different colour & position.

Nice, thankyou. I will try this when sober

Sorry @tamtam12345, follow up question...

It's all making sense to me, thankyou, but what would happen if at a later stage in the game a player by chance moved the unit I used for the cond:object in area into the same square I used?

Are triggers one time only by default?

phoenixffyrnig wrote: ↑Mon Apr 05, 2021 12:27 pm Sorry tamtam12345, follow up question...

It's all making sense to me, thankyou, but what would happen if at a later stage in the game a player by chance moved the unit I used for the cond:object in area into the same square I used?

Are triggers one time only by default?

These triggers only run once only(Select "Run once" ).
If you select "Looping" in the trigger, what you described above will be happened.

Nice nice Nice, thanks Tamtam, I got it working. You've saved me so much pain there, it was mashing my head!

All the triggering worked, just testing it now to see if the map does what I wanted it to do.