I've read the wiki entries for CQB, but I still don't understand how (or if) it works with the other modules.

How does it sync with Civ Obj placements in a town? I've had trouble with the Civ Obj module in towns, in that it doesnt seem to recognise the town as an objective (just elements that may or may not be present there). So I instead populate the town with CQB to ensure enemy presence there.

If the CQB module is synced to the AI Commander, will it recognise the loss of CQB soldiers and send reinforcements to the town?

What I really want to know is can ALiVe generate a town defense situation? If we've just KO'd all the CQB forces, can we expect tanks to start rolling in?

In my experience, the CQB module will populate only, and uses unit counts separate of any synced Military Placement module. Only the decimation of that placement module's patrolling troops, synced upstream to a Military AI Commander module, would prompt logistics/reinforcements.

The CQB module syncs only to a Military Placement module, if I understand correctly, and does so to adapt to only that placement module's factions and locations, instead of populating the whole map.

Also, if you end up killing off all the units under the Military AI Commander then the CQB module can act as an insurgency after you have cleared out the bulk.

Helpful, thanks!

However, I've noticed CQB forces will stand inside buildings, even after gunfire starts ringing out in a town. Is there a setting I should use that prompts the CQB units inside buildings to exit and investigate firefights?

@doubleDizz However, I've noticed CQB forces will stand inside buildings, even after gunfire starts ringing out in a town. Is there a setting I should use that prompts the CQB units inside buildings to exit and investigate firefights?

You could tweak with the AI settings in the AI Settings module but I would highly suggest using a mod called ASR AI to handle this. That mod is excellent and great for enhancing AI not only for the what you are looking for, but this mod will make AI act more human like and will have human like tactics when fighting you.

Also, according to this forum post , there will be an insurgency system that will add better AI tactics.

This is the first step towards a fully integrated insurgency system which ultimately will allow Military AI Commanders to execute insurgent style tactics and strategy. - ARJay

So hopefully this will help with making AI better with their tactics. It also was announced here as well.

I was testing the cqb module last night while using rhs and ran into the issue of enemies not attacking me at all.i could walk right up to them with nothing happening. When I called in an insert chopper they shot at the chopper but on the ground they didn't recognize me.any fix for this?

@bojangles2020 I was testing the cqb module last night while using rhs and ran into the issue of enemies not attacking me at all.i could walk right up to them with nothing happening. When I called in an insert chopper they shot at the chopper but on the ground they didn't recognize me.any fix for this?

Were you perhaps in "Ghost Mode" or did you possibly have any other mods on that could conflict with AI handling? Need all the information we can get so we can help you out better. If you could give us a link to your mission file as well, that would greatly help us out. Also, were you running a headless client on the server to handle CQB?

No i was not in ghost mode. We do run BIcombat ai mod.i will gladly give you the link to the mission file i am just not sure how to get it to you exactly. And the Headless client question is a good one! we are currently not running HC and i am attempting to figure out how to set it up. Reading some things online i think that may possibly be the issue.Sorry im fairly new to all this i usually make missions in the editor and i just started using ALiVE for missions only a few days ago. I really do appreciate any help if at all possible and thanks for hearing me out!

Sorry we are actually running ASR ai not BI combat. Yea i have done a few tests even with mods off except ALiVE and still the ai are simply not attacking me at all.This is very confusing lol

@bojangles2020 I was testing the cqb module last night while using rhs and ran into the issue of enemies not attacking me at all.i could walk right up to them with nothing happening. When I called in an insert chopper they shot at the chopper but on the ground they didn't recognize me.any fix for this?

Bojangles,

Seems like I had this issue once and it seemed to be tied to the ghosting issue. Some script (I can't remember exactly which one was turning on the ghost feature on mission entry. Since you have tried it as vanilla as you can it has to be something in your mission scripts. I prefer to use ALiVE for almost all my mission making so do me a favor. If the issue is spotted by the Dev team please post the results so I won't make the same mistake again.

Thanks,
-Stone