Been tempering with descr_formations_ai and specially liked to discuss the default_melee_state flag a bit more ..

There are a few flags that are used in the vanilla files (though not in the _ai version) that actually work;
-fire_at_will
-defend
-skirmish

and there are flags(to hopefully counter the above mentioned flags) that are used by others that dont seem to work, at least not for me;
-engage_at_will
-attack
-hold_fire

wich often means formations are bugged cause of settings that are aplied during deployment, wich is in a defensive formation where often flags as "defend" are used, now as there doesnt seem to be any way to disable the defend stance it means the unit will hold its defensive stance in an attack

Now I dont know perhaps that BI 1.6 doesnt like the user-found flags or I somehow havent used them properly even once, but I simply cant get them to work, they simply wont get a unit out of its defensive stance.
I also cant seem to find some flag by trying stuff like "attack_at_will" or "engage" and seem to just be able to fill in whatever I want where sometimes the entire command doesnt work because of a incorrect flag and sometimes the command does the correct stuff even though it has an incorrect part.

So I'm about to give up hope of ever setting the AI in a defensive stance as it does seem to by default make my attack formations buggy no matter how well the AI may use them (attacking with units on defend doesnt work all that well it seems :D)
Yet I cant ingnore entire lines of mods having adapted the found flags even though I cant get them to work, maybe I missing something here??


G