How to get AI Squad to reload ammo?

[Flip]

I have an ammo truck but I find no option to get my squad to reload their ammo. Any suggestions?

[mortified_penguin]

Ammo trucks (e.g. HEMTT Ammo/Tempest Ammo) are only for rearming vehicles.

To rearm your AI, you need to find vehicles that actually have magazines for handheld weapons in their cargo inventory. If they do have magazines stored inside that are compatible with your squad's weapons, all you need to do is select them and then issue the "Rearm" command (i.e. F2 -> 6 -> 1. Rearm).

However, if there are no crates or vehicles nearby with magazines stored inside them, then your AI won't be able to restock their equipment.

[Cryptic]

it doesnt even work properly telling them to rearm. never has. it's always been a pain since the old arma games and still is. as far as im aware, not even modders made this better. it's a shame. very difficult to play with.

[mortified_penguin]

Originally posted by Corrosion:

it doesnt even work properly telling them to rearm. never has. it's always been a pain since the old arma games and still is. as far as im aware, not even modders made this better. it's a shame. very difficult to play with.

Uh... no? They always grab a few magazines if there's compatible mags available (usually 4x-5x) and a first aid kit + frag/smoke grenades if there's any. There's never been an issue with the Rearm action even back in the Alpha.

It only gets silly when there's lots of corpses or containers around the vehicle/crate. That's when the AI tends to spaz out and grabs stuff from the wrong location.

[Cryptic]

Trying to make the ai rearm is a known annoyance that needs to be micromanaged all to hell.


Uhm, yes?

[mortified_penguin]

Don't think we're on the same page here mate. I'm talking about the Rearm action, which works just fine without issue.

It's certainly annoying to have to micromanage them in this way but the action itself is not broken.

[Redarmy]

Originally posted by mortified_penguin:

Originally posted by Corrosion:

it doesnt even work properly telling them to rearm. never has. it's always been a pain since the old arma games and still is. as far as im aware, not even modders made this better. it's a shame. very difficult to play with.

Uh... no? They always grab a few magazines if there's compatible mags available (usually 4x-5x) and a first aid kit + frag/smoke grenades if there's any. There's never been an issue with the Rearm action even back in the Alpha.

It only gets silly when there's lots of corpses or containers around the vehicle/crate. That's when the AI tends to spaz out and grabs stuff from the wrong location.

actually its a bug in Arma for quite some time,that AI with sidearms are unable to rearm through normal commands.

Best way around this is to press the inventory action when they are next to a vehicle or crate with magazines inside cargo,and manually drag a few mags into inventory for them.

[Redarmy]

so essentially,just remove their side arms at mission start or make a faction without sidearms and you can use rearm just fine. or use this to enable them to never run out of ammo(but still need to reload)


this addEventHandler ["Reloaded",{
_unit = _this select 0 ;
_mag = _this select 3 select 0 ;
_unit addMagazine _mag ;
}] ;

[Shenji]

I just dump all mags I can find in a truck then order my units board the truck, then open their inventory. Nightmare when there's 50 of them...

[Flip]

Ok so it's not possible to select all your men, press 6 and rearm, it seems have to do it one at a time which is an annoyance and not always the option. But hanks for the advice!

[Cryptic]

Originally posted by Shenji:

I just dump all mags I can find in a truck then order my units board the truck, then open their inventory. Nightmare when there's 50 of them...

this is what i'm referring to.