Java: detecting object name?

Question

I am working on a little tiny game, where there is a Attacker and a Defender.

Player Attacker = new Player();
Player Defender = new Player();
        
class Player {
    int armees = 0;
    int tarningar = 0;
    Dice Dices[];

    Player() {
        armees = 10;
        // if object name is Attacker, tarninger = 3, if defender = 2
        Dices= new Dice[tarningar];

        for(int i = 0; i < Dices.length; i++) {
            Dices[i]=new Dice();
        }
    }
}

I have commented inside the code above, where i wish to have a if statement to determine how many dices it should have.

If this is not possible to do, another way of doing this maybe?

I also tried to

Attacker.tarningar = 3;
Defender.tarningar = 2;

right under where the object gets defined in main, but it doesn't work, because it has already ran Player() inside class.

(I'm still new to java) Thanks

Answer 1

Maybe you could do:

Player(boolean isAttacker){
    armees = 10;
    // if object name is Attacker, tarninger = 3, if defender = 2
    int diceNum;
    if (isAttacker) diceNum = 2;
    else diceNum = 3;
    Dices= new Dice[diceNum];
    for(int i=0;i<Dices.length;i++){
        Dices[i]=new Dice();
    }
}

Then you will need to tell the player if it is attacking or defending when it is constructed.

Player p = new Player(true); // creates an attacker

Answer 2

You should add a variable determining whether this is an attacker or a defender. Or even better, if they do different things, create subclasses for attacker and defender.