VVE Raid

This mod adds vehicle-based raids and reinforcements from Civilized, Space Pirate, and Imperial factions. Installing or removing the mod mid-game may result in harmless red errors, but it should work without problems.

Features

Vehicle Mix in Vanilla Raids

• Civilized, Space Pirate, and Imperial factions will use tanks, APCs, self-propelled guns, and vehicles in raids of 1000 points or more that are on foot and not in Siege mode.

• Outlander will mostly use tier 2 vehicles, and occasionally tier 1 vehicles.

• Pirates will mostly use tier 1 vehicles, and can use vehicles of all tiers.

• Empire will only use tier 3 vehicles and military transports.

• References vehicles with both tier tags and vehicle tags ("tank", "apc", "mortar", etc.).

• If a vehicle with the "helicopter" or "droppod" tag appears, it will be replaced by a flying vehicle raid.

• Vehicles tagged "marine" will spawn on the water, while other vehicles will spawn on large ground areas with sufficient spacing between them.

• The higher the attack points, the higher the proportion of vehicles in the entire attack team.

• Self-propelled artillery is too powerful and will not participate in attacks below 3000 points, nor will it fire for the first hour after spawning.

Landing Operations

• If there is a sufficiently large body of water on the map, civilized, space pirates, and imperial factions will initiate a Landing Operation.
• Raiders will spawn from the water in boats, disembark at the nearest land, and head towards the colony.

Required Mods

Vehicles Framework Harmony

Mod/DLC Compatibility

Vanilla Vehicles Expanded: Required if you don't have a mod that adds raid vehicles to VVE Raid Vanilla Vehicles Expanded - Tier 3: Recommended Aerial Vehicles: The enemy uses combat-capable aircraft. RimWorld - Royalty: Empires also use vehicles. RimWorld - Biotech: Additional factions also use vehicles. Combat Extended: Supports both standard and general-purpose ammunition. Vanilla Vehicles Expanded - Upgrades: Upgraded vehicles appear. VVE - Secondary Weapons: Vehicles in the CE environment will now also carry ammunition for additional weapons. Vehicle Auto-Combat: Makes combat commands easier. VehicleRaid Framework: Should not interfere. Since it has many similar functions, please investigate which one is causing the issue when reporting a bug.

Patch

• Allows capturing vehicles with no survivors.
• Makes assault vehicles always select the rapid-fire mode with the highest rate of fire.
• Assault vehicle VVE Raid commands, Job, Displays Lord for each vehicle.
• If there are no enemies and no enemy pawns on the vehicle, it will periodically clear retreat orders.
• If VVE_ComplexVehicles is researched and a Tier 3 vehicle is captured, the corresponding research will be unlocked.
• When automatic colony zone selection is on, capturing a vehicle will turn the surrounding squares into a colony zone.
• Fixed a bug where vehicles using shells in non-CE environments would appear unloaded.
• In CE environments, the roof size will be expanded to cover the entire vehicle, making it more easily destroyed.
• If general-purpose ammunition is used in a CE environment, the general-purpose ammunition linked to the definition of general-purpose ammunition will be automatically loaded.

AI Behavior

Aerial Helicopter AI

• Assigned to vehicles tagged "aerialheli" Aerial Airplane AI

• Assigned to vehicles tagged "aerialplane"

• Prioritizes targeting enemy vehicles

• Retreats when fuel drops below 20% or when ammunition runs out VVE Helicopter AI

• Assigned to vehicles tagged "helicopter"

• Disembarks crew and takes off after 5 seconds, leaving the map Droppod AI

• Assigned to vehicles tagged "droppod"

• Disembarks pawns in seats without turrets

• Pawns retreat using droppods when retreating Car AI

• Assigned to vehicles tagged "car"

• Moves within 25 spaces of an enemy and deploys infantry

• When retreating, if an allied vehicle is moving, nearby pawns will board it and return Self-Propelled Artillery AI

• Assigned to vehicles tagged "mortar"

• Does not fire for the first hour after appearing

• Once able to fire, it will turn in a random direction and scout

• If it has the "deploy" tag, it will deploy upon entering the map Boat AI

• Assigned to vehicles tagged "boat"

• Moves towards the nearest land and deploys infantry.

• When retreating, if your own boat is moving, nearby pawns will board it to return.

• Boats that appear in ponds will despawn after approaching the edge of the map as close as possible. Tank and APC AI

• Assigned when no tag is specified for AI.

• Vehicles with the "spg" tag will frequently stop to search for enemies.

• Stop if turrets are locked onto an enemy.

• If passenger seats are present, they will deploy when firing.

• If no path to the enemy is found, the vehicle will attack the wall along the shortest path.

Known Issues

• Tanks and APCs become sluggish when moving with wall-destroying orders. This seems to be due to the complexity of pathfinding for wall destruction, which affects processing.
• Various harmless warnings and errors occur. For example, the error "(Vehicle) started 10 jobs in one tick." occurs only immediately after the start of a LordJob_StageThenAttack attack. Errors that do not affect operation will be addressed later.

Bug Report

• Please write your bug report in the comments section here and we will address it.
• Please make sure that the bug is not caused by another mod.
• Please identify the conditions under which the bug occurs.

Contact, Discussion, and Support

VVE Raid Server https://discord.gg/KMhHUB4Cmz

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