This patch aims at giving ranged units the ability to attack-ground.
ToDo:
- Allow buildings to attack-ground as well (Probably wait for D1958).
- Assign hotkey?
- Let someone create an icon for this.
When time permits:
- When someone wants to order ~10 entities to attack ground a specific area, it is often not desired that all entities try to fire at exactly the same location. I do not know whether it is possible, but it would be interesting to add an area to the attack ground order. So that if one clicks the button the cursor appears, but around the cursor a circle (perhaps semi-filled circle) of the area to be bombarded. The circle would initially have a rather small radius (~5 m perhaps) but the radius can be increased/decreased by scrolling the middle mouse button (or pushing +/-). When the actual command is given (i.e. clicking the map), the entities randomly choose a target location to bombard, within that radius, varying the location with every "PerformAttack". Not that due to the spread of the attack (projectiles) itself the projectiles may land outside the specified area.