Give Lightning and Armored warheads an immunity to AOE immunity

[TechSY730]

Just raising awareness about this mantis post: 8909: Give Lightning and Armored warheads an immunity to AOE immunity
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   Currently, Martyrs, with their self destruct, can hurt things with its AOE explosion even if they have an immunity to AOE. In other words, they have an immunity to AOE immunity.

It only seems fair to give lightning and armored warheads this as well, as they are meant to be "superweapons", and cost AIP, so it seems that they should do at least what martyrs can do with their explosion.

This would also help to ferret out camouflaged units that you can't seem to provoke to attack, but have AOE immunity.


Inspired by a forum post I made long ago, but I forgot to put it here.

[Mánagarmr]

That sounds more like a bug with martyrs, more so that warheads. Or...am I dumb?

[keith.lamothe]

Martyrs are supposed to be immune-to-immune-to-AOE.

[TechSY730]

That sounds more like a bug with martyrs, more so that warheads. Or...am I dumb?

Nope, that was an explicit thing given to martyrs, because it was "snatching" up tractor slots with AOE immune stuff, but then not damaging them on death, thus wasting those tractor slots.
Then, much later, I realized that this would be great for the warheads as well, as they are supposed to serve a similar role to martyrs, but cost "more" due to their AIP costs.

EDIT: Ninja'd

[Mánagarmr]

Martyrs are supposed to be immune-to-immune-to-AOE.

immuneception!

But erp, okay. That's a rather cumbersome way of doing it, tbh. Wouldn't it be simpler (mind-wise, not code-wise) to alter their tractor behaviour to not pickup AOE-immune stuff instead of making them an iWin against anything?

[Hearteater]

I wonder if the expansion will have immune-to-immune-to-immune-to-AOE?