More grenades!

[lancelot]

Is there any way to get the ballista to fire grenades instead of bolts? I never use ballista coz I think they are a bit rubbish. can they be jazzed up a bit?


Im playing kekvit mod. naptha throwers now come with a ballista but I removed that coz I missed the mobility. So I want naptha throwers and ballista naptha throwers.

BUT, as far as I can tell the ballista is added to the grenade entry in projectile stats.txt. So at the mo, I havent found a way to have both.

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[Myrddraal]

A far as I know.. U cant do that. If I understand what ur saying, u want to add a new projectile which is like the naphta. Thats hard coded. http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/frown.gif

[Kekvit Irae]

Grenade ballistas are available in my mod.

You can either...
a) Replace the Ballista portion of the Projectilestats.txt to have columns 30 to 34 set with EXPLODE, column 35 to have a blast radius of 100, and column 36 to 25.

or

b) Edit the ninja star to emulate the above, and to replace PROJECTILE_TYPE( whatever ) with PROJECTILE_TYPE( NINJ ) in the Unit_prod file.

Method A is a quick fix to ballistas, but affects ALL ballistas. Method B is a more detailed fix, but allows you to build a new unit around it.