Hostages joining units

[General Goober]

How do I set a join command so that he joins with any unit that comes in contact within a trigger.  From what I have read I have to specify the name of the unit. For example,

[man1] join B.  

Second part of the question - How can I specify a number of units for it to join with.

For example. I tried [man1] join A, B, C.  

However command does not work.

[macguba]

You don't him to join with multiple units, once he's joined with one that's it, he is in that group.

there was a thread a week or two ago on this very question ... I can't remember exactly what the answer was but "thislist" comes into it.

[General Goober]

The unit I wanted the unit to join with is a hostage.  The problem facing me is this:

The joining unit is killed

or

another unit is in a much better position to rescue the unit.

[macguba]

This board is infested with threads on hostage rescue, its been very popular recently.   I found these in a matter of seconds by the cunning ploy of searching this board for "hostage"


http://www.ofpec.com/yabbse/index.php?board=6;action=display;threadid=4927

http://www.ofpec.com/yabbse/index.php?board=6;action=display;threadid=5866;start=0

http://www.ofpec.com/yabbse/index.php?board=6;action=display;threadid=6539