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Hey, I have a question. I searched gametoast for this and didn't really come up with anything, so as far as I know this question hasn't been asked before

Is it possible to have a timed orbital strike that isn't tied to any unit's actions? Like, every 2 minutes in the map, an orbital strike hits specific locations on the map. It seems like it could be possible, but I have no idea how I'd go about doing that - would this be technically possible?

You can't fire a weapon apropos of nothing through a script. You can script a unit's goals based on a timer, and you could probably make a workaround that forced them to use a specific weapon.

It'd be easier, though, to just create a particle effect that looked like an orbital strike and set it to fire with the destruction of an object. Object destruction can be tied to a particle effect and an explosion, which you can use to trigger damage and push.

Alterantively, you could make a specialized (invisible, no collision, forced auto fire, not-rotating and whatnot) turret to place above your target locations.

Or a similarly invisible turret that sits on the ground and paints targets with orbital strike beacons periodically, or just drop the beacon right next to the turret.

Mkay, even the simple solutions sound a bit complex for me, so I'll shelve this idea for now.

If you set the weapon-object to autofire and add a reload time of x seconds, shouldn't that result in the same?
Alternatively you could make a timer and use SetProperty set en/-disable autofire.