Naptha and walls

[Knight of the Rose]

Short question: Can naphta throwers pull down (wooden) walls?

/KotR

[naut]

I know they can in melee.

Thanks for inadvertently solving a bug in my mod though.

[I of the Storm]

IIRC all units except siege weapons will use only their melee attack against walls. So: no.
What I didn't try though is to Alt+left with a ranged unit on a wall section. That might (or might not) activate their ranged attack against walls. Give it a try?

[caravel]

I don't think units actually use their melee attack against walls. The only weapons able to damage walls are seige engine projectiles or cannon shot. This is why if you look carefully at your men when they are attacking walls you will see a "torch" that is hurled upwards and then falls back down onto the wall damaging it. If you look closely you can see it fragmenting on impact. This is the generic special projectile weapon that all units use when attacking walls. The "fighting" animation that you see while this is going on is purely cosmetic.

[I of the Storm]

You're right. There are little torches flying around. Never payed enough attention I guess.

[Fagar]

I cannot remember at the moment but what TW game has it where if you get your archers to shoot at the enemy walls they loose fire arrows instead of normal arrows?
Is it Shogun?