I apologise for the vague title, but I have three questions/observations about destroying stuff in sieges (amazing, I know) I'd like to ask:
1. What's the deal with units being able to torch gates and towers? A while back, I was able to use my troops to set alight a gate by throwing torches at it in both singleplayer and multiplayer. A while later, I was unable to do this anymore, in either multiplayer or singleplayer. I would assume a patch had eliminated the ability, but one of my opponents in multiplayer was able to torch my tower using his infantry. He suggested the weather could have an effect, but in multiplayer there is no weather, so that appears to be out. I haven't done any real research on this, so I'm probably missing something obvious - can only certain units torch buildings, or something?
2. Is there any way to get bow units to target the ramparts with their flaming arrows? Is it even possible to burn down the ramparts with flaming arrows?
3. (possibly a bug, but I thought I'd see if anybody has tips to get around the problem): I was mucking about with fire rockets in a custom battle the other day, and when I ordered them to attack a gate or wall, they would walk up until they were directly next to the wall/gate, and fire their rockets vertically upwards. Needless to say, this was highly innacurate, as well as causing some hilarious friendly fire incidents . The ground up to the castle was slightly sloped, but nothing too drastic, so terrain shouldn't have had any effect. Anybody know what the problem is?
Thanks in advance.
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