40k Ork datafile

One fine day in the middle of the night, Versif
<Wlist@pekan.demon.co.uk> got up to write:

>In this article Colen 'Not Colin' McAlister & The Skrills
><demandred@skrill.org> wrote
>>Hmm... no, it's 'nasty'.
>>
>>Various special characters can also take Retinues as well. If I put in
>>"If you have a Retinue, you've got to have a Warboss" rule, that would
>>give an error if you had one of them without a Warboss. It could
>>probably be done, but it would be unclear whose retinue was whose.
>>
>>I'm also planning a cunning modification to the Ork files, if I can
>>throw my sister off the computer long enough to do it, which requires
>>the parent / child relationship.
>
>Nice to hear about the mod, throw your sister off [gently ]. I thought
>the retinue problem could be addressed by the reqd: function under
>external attributes for each retinue. The rule is entered in the
>retinue's external function. That is - reqd:unit=orWarbss@1u:1u for the
>warbosses retinue and reqd:unit=orPainbs@1u:1u for the Painboss
>bodyguard and reqd:unit=orMekbod@1u:1u for the Big Mek body guard. All 3
>would require limiting to one unit as well. Actually it could also be
>reqd:unit=orWarbss@1u:1m given that the leader is only 1 model

If I was going to do it, that's how it would be done.

>Doesn't seem that nasty I may try it out just to see if it works.

Feel free

>>Have you tried using the 'unit save' and 'unit load' facilities? If you
>>use a lot of similar units every time, they might be of help.
>Found that the units wouldn't load after some upgrades So I prefer
>this method.

}:<

Sorry about that :P

>>>Yeah, like restrict it to a choice of set values and make it more
>>>obvious how it works (as in not clear initially that you have to select
>>>the plus button) and clear up the display of the user: function, the
>>>text tends to overprint the name of the option.
>>
>>Indeed. Well, it shouldn't unless you're writing essays there...
>
>Damn, found out again. No, just "select 5 or 10 points"

Why not just replace it with "5 / 10"? Concise and understandable, IMAO.

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