Setting stuff on fire

[/Bean\]

How do you edit the tower fire rate?

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

How do you edit the tower fire rate?

Its not that hard to mod this. Even someone as ignorant as me can fix it.

Go into your EB folder, and search for a file named descr_engines. Look for medium tower (tower for large stone walls which are the largest you can get in EB) and look for two parts of the description. At the top, change the projectile from scorpion to arrow, then scroll down a bit. You'll see this...

attack_stat 12, 2, scorpion, 120, 30, siege_missile, siege, piercing
attack_stat_attr ap, bp, launching

Replace that with this....

attack_stat 8, 2, arrow, 100, 100, missile, archery, piercing
attack_stat_attr ap


Now you should have large towers that are not intensely deadly but will still pick off a few wall defenders on their way.

You can also mod the frequency of the firing but I didn't want to mess with that. That should be near the bottom of the siege tower entry. Also near the bottom should be ignition rate.

[/Bean\]

Cheers for that. This will mean I'll lose more cities, because everyone at some point relies on your own towers hitting the attackers once inside the walls. It will make campaigns far more interesting.

[vartan]

Its not that hard to mod this. Even someone as ignorant as me can fix it.

Go into your EB folder, and search for a file named descr_engines. Look for medium tower (tower for large stone walls which are the largest you can get in EB) and look for two parts of the description. At the top, change the projectile from scorpion to arrow, then scroll down a bit. You'll see this...

attack_stat 12, 2, scorpion, 120, 30, siege_missile, siege, piercing
attack_stat_attr ap, bp, launching

Replace that with this....

attack_stat 8, 2, arrow, 100, 100, missile, archery, piercing
attack_stat_attr ap


Now you should have large towers that are not intensely deadly but will still pick off a few wall defenders on their way.

You can also mod the frequency of the firing but I didn't want to mess with that. That should be near the bottom of the siege tower entry. Also near the bottom should be ignition rate.

Save-Game compatible?

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

I believe so. Not doing anything much different than say, changing a units stats which is also save game comp.

Of course I first modded it when I downloaded EB since I hated those machine gun siege towers in vanilla.

[vartan]

I believe so. Not doing anything much different than say, changing a units stats which is also save game comp.

Of course I first modded it when I downloaded EB since I hated those machine gun siege towers in vanilla.

What can we do about the towers on the walls, not the siege towers. The towers on the walls seem to kill so many of my men. I do not wish to sound like I am complaining because I'm grateful and I do not mind bearing with it, but do you believe the towers could also use some change? if possible, how is that modifiable? Thank you.

[/Bean\]

Oh, that's what I thought you meant by towers...yeah, that's the one I want to change too.

[Brave Brave Sir Robin]

Oh sorry, I misunderstood. I think that how towers are controlled would probably be hardcoded. However the attack values of the missiles and firing rate may be moddable. Not really sure how... I would look but I'm on my laptop. I'll check later.

EDIT: Ok this might not be right but this is the only way I could check. I have Med2 installed on my laptop with the Broken Crescent mod. I decided to look through since the majority of the files in Med2 are similar to Rome. There is a file entitled descr_walls in the data subfolder where it appears tower attack and fire rate can be modified. However I have no idea what the fire rate numbers mean. Someone with more modding experience should probably help you here.

A sample of the file...

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tower
{
full_health 500
control_area_radius 30
manned 1
battle_stats flammability_medium impact_damage_high
localised_name tower

; as in descr_unit.txt
level
{
stat 8, 0, arrow, 120, 10, missile, missile_mechanical, piercing, arrow_tower, 10, 1
stat_attr no
shot_sfx TOWER_ARROW_FIRING
fire_angle 100

; unit size reload_ms flaming_reload_ms
fire_rate small 5000 3250
fire_rate normal 4500 3250
fire_rate large 4000 3250
fire_rate huge 3500 3250

Again this is for Med2, not Rome but I believe there would be a similar file in the Rome data folder.