Canonade Towers Shooting Arrows

[FJM]

I spent a fortune building cannon towers on my citadels and Huge cities and sat and waited for an attack looking forward to watching some great action (the other guy getting blown away). Once attaked, however, those towers were only firing off arrows. How disappointing...

Has anyone else had this problem.

FJM

[Quillan]

It's a known bug. For some factions (not all), ballista towers on huge cities fire cannon shots, and cannon towers fire ballista bolts. It doesn't affect Spain, but did affect Venice and Byzantium in the campaigns I've played. For all factions (as far as I know), cannon towers don't work at all on citadels, so it's a waste of time and money building them. Hopefully this will be addressed with the next patch.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

A very very frustrating bug, especially if you just upgraded to deal with the Mongols!

There is a fix http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=74501
but recommended only if you know how to install the modified file.

[FJM]

Thanks guys. I was playing as the Scots.

[diamondback88]

You're not alone; it effects me too. In fact, I''d never seen a working ballista tower until I played a custom battle recently. Until then I thought that they were supposed to work that way and that the arrows were just really gutless ballista bolts. "What a waste of money" and whatnot went drifting through my head. I'm semirelieved to find out that it's a known bug and not just something specific to me or a new "system".

[Chosun]

You should have noticed ballista towers shooting cannon balls even pre-gunpowder.:laugh4: Kinda surprised me....in a good way cause I was gettin sieged.