removing boiling oil

[BetterDeadThanRed]

There isn't.

[Privateerkev]

maybe he is talking about Kingdoms where there is boiling oil.

It's pretty nasty. You learn to put one or two units you don't care about in the gate first. And never move your generals in until you take over the gateway.

[pevergreen]

I imagine the coding is the same as RTW as for when it triggers, either run light cav through, they should avoid it if units are small enough, or sent a disposable unit, then run.

[FactionHeir]

I imagine it will be in descr_walls or descr_projectile

[BetterDeadThanRed]

To be honest, there really isn't much punishment for rams in regular MTW2. I was kinda surprised it was omitted. They even showed holes above the gates where it should have been.

[Gaiseric]

Thanks, I'm not sure what to modify in descr_walls, descr_buildings, or descr_projectiles. Renaming or deleting the boiling_oil.txt will remove the animation but your units will still die as they enter the gate.

The main reason I wan't to remove this feature is so that the AI will have a better chance at taking over my cities. All it does now is create a mass rout when the AI enters through the gates. I could defend against a full stack with very few troops. I'd rather have the fighting be tooth and nail and offer somewhat of a challange.


I've searched the shogun forums, the guild, and twcenter, but nobody seems to know how to remove the boiling oil feature. I suppose that I can try to live with it, but if anybody knows how to remove this feature could you please enlighten me. Thanks

[FactionHeir]

If you can post the code from the walls file at least I can have a look.