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Im looking for some help, I have a scenario am creating from an old Harpoon Gold Scenario.

In Harpoon airfields were single attackable units and in command they are not, I have worked out a way to destroy the whole base using LUA that is, have a single unit airfield called in this case wethersfield then create 20 hangars W1-12 group the lot together.

I then use a points based trigger to remove the airfield, and create the following script:

ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO", unitname="Wethersfield1"})
ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO", unitname="W1"})
ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO", unitname="W2"})
ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO", unitname="W3"})
ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO", unitname="W4"})
ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO", unitname="W5"})
ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO", unitname="W6"})
ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO", unitname="W7"})
ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO", unitname="W8"})
ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO", unitname="W9"})
ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO", unitname="W10"})
ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO", unitname="W11"})
ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO", unitname="W12"})

Wethersfield1 is the single airfield unit in this case

This works really well, however its time consuming so I tried a second script to see if I could achieve the same effect on 1 line of code :

ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO"name='Wethersfield'})

This code works but it deletes the group and leaves in place the units that made up the group which isnt exactly what I wanted to achieve. So is there a reasonably easy script I could use that will delete a Group AND its sub units in one go?

It would be much easier if Single Unit airfields were attackable lol
Kind Regards

Butch

It would be much easier if Single Unit airfields were attackable lol

Then you'd have to listen to me whine about how your scenario totally sucks because I don't get to weaponeer each and every DMPI for every single JDAM coming off my B-2.

you can get the unitlist from the group and then go over it to delete each unit, then delete the group.

local u = ScenEdit_GetUnit({name='groupName'})
unitsToChange = u.group.unitlist
for i = 1, #unitsToChange
do
--delete the unit here - unit list is list of guids I think (guid=unitsToChange)
end --loop

--delete the group here? not sure if there would be a group left if there were no units so maybe not

You should be able to delete the group with the units.
ScenEdit_DeleteUnit({side="NATO", unitname="Wethersfield1"}, true)

The binary option allows you to delete the 'group' and the attached units. By default, deleting a 'group' will only remove the 'group' unit = un-group it.

The Editor method drop-down list shows this extra option, but not the documentation.

All,

Thanks for the really helpful replies, Ive just tried out the LUA codes and it works really well.

Thanks Again

Butch