Pila don't stick to shields

[Acronym]

One thing that would be nice to see is the roman pila sticking into enemy shields on contact, so some men die and some are slowed down or have to toss their shield, adding an armor penalty.

But I'm guessing this would hog system resources, or maybe not if done cleverly. Maybe add this in as an option to turn off. Heck I don't care if the pila add penalties or not, It would still be cool to see a bunch of spears stuck in the ground and on the enemy shields. Same with arrows too.

I know everyone is tired of these nit-picking threads but if CA is brilliant enough to develope a cinematic engine like RTW and not hog too many more resources than STW, then I don't think this is a big obstacle :)

[RisingSun]

Well aren't we on a topic-making spree?

I think the men actually tossing their shields, or the pila sticking to them would take up resources which could be better used. For example, a guy without a shield would need totally different combat animations. I don't want to see guys blocking strokes with their bare forearms. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/gc-inquisitive.gif

However, I'm sure CA is historically concious enough to make some kind of generic armor check apply when a unit has been hit by a pila and not killed. However this should only be a one-time penalty, as a guy who has already dropped his shield can't exactly drop another one, can he?

[Ashen]

I think it should just take away units individual shield bonus. Thats easy enough to do with the MTW/RTW engine I believe, and it wouldn't neccessitate a new animation or nothing. It would however disadvantage the people being turned into pincushions

[RisingSun]

Thats pretty much what I meant...

[RZST]

lmfao i can just imagine a lone legionnaire being poked to death by hundreds of hoplites. his body will eventually look like a big spike ball. hehhe

damn, those are the min? fuckin a. looks like ill have to get a new desktop then :(