TL’DR-Can I make a script to kill all archer bots?

Hello all. I run a small local LAN server for a few friends of mine. We enjoy playing quite a bit, and we add a lot of Bots to make the game more lively. We avoid maps with major bot pathing issues (like aocto-darkforest) and still have quite a bit of fun. The bots can be a challenge when they swarm you.

Thus my problem: Archer bots. They are useless. You can be standing right next to them and they can’t hit you. They don’t actually shoot. They are mere fodder. So if a large wave shows up, and 1/4 or more are archers, it’s still not very challenging. Fire archers bots are effective, but they spawn too irregularly to be of real use.

So, I want to make it so there are no bot archers. I spoke to the Devs at Pax East this year, and went over a few ideas, but it seems even if I disable archers as a class, the bots can still spawn as them because, and I quote, “The bots do whatever they want.”

Now, understandably, bot updates are of low, if not the lowest priority. I completely agree, but I thought I would turn to the community to see if you had any ideas. Is is possible, for example, to have a script run that detects when an archer bot spawns, and immediately kill it? This will, hopefully, have it respawn as a non-archer. I know there is a console command to kill all the bots. But I can’t get them to respawn if I use it.

So, any creative thoughts or suggestions? I know next to nothing about server scripting like this in games, but I do know how to code/program so hit me. Thanks!