Total Army Point Cost Question
 

First, I am assuming that since the value is displayed, the total army/roster point cost is a roster statistic internally calculated by AB. If so, what is the syntax for accessing the total point cost of an army/roster?

If my assumption is incorrect, then what is the proper way to reference a Stat Calc/Stat Id in a Rule script?

-DH

The roster size cam be accessed in the rule scripts with two expressions:

roster.activesize for the currently used points
roster.usersize for the user set number of points

Thanks dude!

If I have a situation where only one third of my force can be units of tag Spec.Third, then how do I work get army builder to keep track of the total points cost of all these units, so I can then compare it to the roster.usersize tag in a validation rule?

create a statcalc that totals up the points value of any unit that has the relevant tag, then reference the statcalc within the rule by using:

statcalc[id] where id is the unique id of the statcalc

The statcalc maybe along the lines of:

test expression: spec.Third

tally expression: @value = @value + cost[total]

OK Thanks. Will try that once I've had a good nights sleep!

Thanks for that! Works like a charm!

I appreciate I'm necromancing and ancient thread here, but is this still valid in 3.4c? I'm working on an override that is supposed to change a tag for a unit when the total number of points in the roster exceeds 800...but roster.activesize doesn't appear to work.

In the debug viewer, I cans see roster.size is set to the user size but if a user sets unlimited, that's not that useful for me!

this still applies but bear in mind the warning in the AB kit manual:

roster.activesize is calculated after the rest so that any script in a pre/post links won't trigger on a roster.activesize wouldn't be triggered - you'll have to try and work something else out.

It may be worth trying to have a specific tag for this unit and then put a script in the Global Script section under Roster Done that checks for the tagged unit and then checks roster.activesize and if the criteria meet then the tag is changed - the only problem though is if the change of tag under this criteria is supposed to change other costs/function this may not trigger