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Description

Description:

Select the group's leader. Group locality can be checked with local command and group ownership with groupOwner command.

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An invalid combination can be provided to this command, e.g unitName not being part of group. In that case:

unitName will be leader of group, but will not be able to command them
if unitName is deleted or killed, leader of group will be objNull and will not automatically be reassigned.

Groups:

Groups

Syntax

Syntax:: group selectLeader unitName
Parameters:: group: Group
: unitName: Object
Return Value:: Nothing

Examples

Example 1:: group player selectLeader player;
Example 2:: Make unit a leader from server:
[group _unit, _unit] remoteExec ["selectLeader", groupOwner group _unit];

Additional Information

See also:: commandFollow doFollow formationLeader formLeader isFormationLeader leader setLeader

Notes

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+* ''unitName'' will be [[leader]] of ''group'', but will not be able to command them
+* if ''unitName'' is deleted or killed, [[leader]] of ''group'' will be [[objNull]] and will not automatically be reassigned.
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