Retreat

Robots are brave; sometimes a little too brave. Most of the time, it is better to restrain a foolhardy attack than to have to egg on units, but some games require a little more common sense from your minions.

Retreat is a widget included in CA that adds a powerful command to your units. Retreat replaces TA's old land-at option for air units. Instead, retreating is available to all your units and you don't need to build a special structure.

The menu has a Set Retreat Zone button with the picture of an ambulance. Click on it and then click on the map where you wish retreating units to go. A circle with an ambulance will mark the area. Multiple retreat zones can be set throughout the map and units will retreat to the nearest one. If no retreat zones are set, your damaged units will stay in battle.

Setting a retreat zone within an existing one will remove it. Holding shift while setting retreat zones will let you set/remove multiple zones without having to click on the ambulance each time.

Units have a button that will set them to retreat from battle to a retreat zone at 30%, 60% or 90% health. Right-click on the button to cancel the retreat order. When damaged, retreating units will show a medic symbol.

Tips

• Set a retreat zone within range of several nano towers. They repair units quickly.

• The autoretreat widget is also included with CA. It will set a few pre-defined units to Retreat at 90% once they're built. These include mobile radars and jammers and a few other weaponless units. Autoretreat is disabled by default.

• To set hotkeys for retreat, open uikeys.txt in your spring folder and bind retreat to set retreat orders, luaui noretreat to cancel retreat orders and sethaven to set retreat zones, to the keys of your choice.

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