Getting enemy to "protect" another enemy

[Nanaki_Fan]

Hello,

I am trying to figure out how to get an enemy to protect another, i.e guard/shield them.

My current set up in troops is:

1 boss

2 grunts

I want the grunts to "step in" and take the damage when the boss is attacked. Is this even possible?

I've set up a "immortal" state on the boss until the grunts are killed but this doesn't fit well with my scene. The boss is just a general and the grunts are soldiers so it makes more sense for the grunts to defend their boss rather than the boss being "magically linked" to them.

as a further note I am using Yami's battle symphony for sideview battles.

 

[Hollow]

Have you tried adding a state to the grunts with the "Substitute" flag on?

 

[Nanaki_Fan]

Have you tried adding a state to the grunts with the "Substitute" flag on?

I looked into this but it seems the substitute flag causes the soldiers to protect each other if they too have low health.

Also the substitute flag still allows the boss to take damage until the conditions of substitute take effect. I am looking more of an active "guard" command where by the two guards take the damage for the boss.

 

[Chaos Avian]

This might help you. You can set the HP protection percentage to whatever you like as well.

http://galvs-scripts.com/2013/02/14/substitute-functionality/

 

[Nanaki_Fan]

This might help you. You can set the HP protection percentage to whatever you like as well.

http://galvs-scripts.com/2013/02/14/substitute-functionality/

I shall take a look, thanks

 

[Shaz]

I've moved this thread to VX Ace Support. Please be sure to post your threads in the correct forum next time. Thank you.