Battle Fortress issue!

[Sun]

Actually I love this game so much, I played since C&C 1 on Windows 95 and continues more
sucn as Renegade, General, C&C3,and finally Red Alert 2 Yuri Revenge
Now I'm 37 But I still love to play Ra2 everyday! 

But I notice some issue about Battle Fortress,
when I attach it with some troopers, and they enter it by stupid ordering,
by don't care about distance or no metter who's closer, 
sometime they just waiting someone who's further or not around...
Why don't who's closer enter first?

and when entered some enemy base, especially with Guardian GI
they always attack or shoot to a tower or sentry gun first!
by don't care what's enemies units around...
enemies units will kill you while you just stupid hit the tower,
even the tower stop working by no power already!

Why not attack danger alive unit first?

and after I create game with a lots of seats, and attachs them with AI,
if I swith back to less seats such as 8 to 2, it still have AI left in the seats
I have to manual remove AIs out of slots one by one
Why not automatic remove them according to available seats of map?

Edited Friday at 11:38 AM by Sun

[Dctanxman]

On 10/6/2025 at 7:19 AM, Sun said:

Actually I love this game so much, I played since C&C 1 on Windows 95 and continues more
sucn as Renegade, General, C&C3,and finally Red Alert 2 Yuri Revenge
Now I'm 37 But I still love to play Ra2 everyday! 

Glad you love C&C as much as the rest of us. I also play almost every day. I been making maps and content for RA2YR for over 20 years.

To answer your questions...

On 10/6/2025 at 7:19 AM, Sun said:

But I notice some issue about Battle Fortress,
when I attach it with some troopers, and they enter it by stupid ordering,
by don't care about distance or no metter who's closer, 
sometime they just waiting someone who's further or not around...
Why don't who's closer enter first?

Battle Fortress's are a very unique unit. The issue you are having are just how this game was designed to work. But there is good news, I can teach you a trick and explain some stuff to help you.

Loading a battle fortress can be annoying for sure.. but try this trick out. When you're loading your Battle Fortress with infantry.. After you have ordered all units to enter.. Spam the 'S' key as fast as you can and everything close will all load at the same time. Thank me later.
 

On 10/6/2025 at 7:19 AM, Sun said:

and when entered some enemy base, especially with Guardian GI
they always attack or shoot to a tower or sentry gun first!
by don't care what's enemies units around...
enemies units will kill you while you just stupid hit the tower,
even the tower stop working by no power already!

Why not attack danger alive unit first?

What is happening here is the GGI or anything inside the battle fortress (even the battle fortress itself) is attacking what has a higher threat value. Everything has a threat value defined by the game in the Rule(md).ini and a tower or sentry has more threat value then most units for example. You can always attack what you want manually. Also note all units that can attack air will always attack air over anything on the ground, you must force them to attack ground until all air units are dead or out of range.

 

On 10/6/2025 at 7:19 AM, Sun said:

and after I create game with a lots of seats, and attachs them with AI,
if I swith back to less seats such as 8 to 2, it still have AI left in the seats
I have to manual remove AIs out of slots one by one
Why not automatic remove them according to available seats of map?

This is done so when you go from a 8 player map to a 2 player map (while searching for a new map to play) then back to a 8 player map you dont have to add all the computers back in and give them a starting spot/side/team and so on. Some will argue that it is more annoying to have to add them then remove and I agree.
 

 

Hope this helps you some and GL out there commander