catapults

[castle]

when playing yesterday I had a battle where I had three catapults. When they started firing two of them fired balls that had a flame and a black smoke trail. I have played since the game came out and have never seen this before. Are they supposed to be like this, I have always had a plain old rock ball.

[John86]

This can happen when sieging a castle, or the enemy is near a town. It has happened unexpectlty to me though, i think its a bug. And im just curious, how many kills did the 3 cata get? My record is 216 with 2 catapults.

[lancer63]

You can also see the same thing happen when besieging a fort type castle all non-gunpowder artillery will shoot flaming misiles at stockades and palisades. Archers will do that too. It's a feature, not a bug.

[RisingSun]

Never heard of this before... http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/confused.gif

[katank]

yeah, archers and missiles including siege would have flaming shots in a siege as I believe.

My record for a catapult is 157 kills with 1 catapult.
This was during GH invasion of kiev where there were just furballs of enemy for the bouncing shot to hit.

[motorhead]

IIRC, the pyrotechnics feature came with VI. Under the options menu there's a pyro slider bar to increase/decrease the effects you see.

[Daevyll]

you get the flaming trails on arrows and boulders if you target a structure iirc.
Oh and only with VI installed of course.

[John86]

Ive had it happen when theres no citys or castles, that part is a bug

[lancer63]

Quote[/b] (WarlordMasterHiji @ Feb. 26 2004,17:41)]Ive had it happen when theres no citys or castles, that part is a bug
Maybe you targeted a farmhouse or church by mistake, it's happened to me plenty of times. But even if it is a bug, it's a pretty one.

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