BI feature: AI does not throw weapons!

**Kraxis** · 10-04-2005, 13:07

Kurdish Javelinmen and other true skirmishers do throw their weapons, but units with FAW off do not throw them at all. Siege units do shoot though, despite starting with FAW off.

I noted this a long time ago when I was fighting some rebel Hastati in RTW. They never responded to my own Hastati throwing their pila.

Then I came here but there wasn't much response to it. I guess I should have posted a new thread for it.

**Jambo** · 10-04-2005, 13:20

Didn't the AI Hastati, Principes, etc, used to throw their pilum before charge in 1.2?

Am I right in thinking that this is what is claimed is no longer occurring in BI (and possibly 1.3)?

**Duke John** · 10-04-2005, 13:22

In R:TW 1.2 I did see Hastati and Principes throwing their pilums. This is not happening with their WRE/ERE equivalents in BI.

**Doug-Thompson** · 10-04-2005, 15:21

Well, this sure sounds like a frontrunner in the bug list. I'll try a siege or something and put a couple if pilum-equipped units in the center of town. If the pilums aren't thrown by the second unit, which can't reach the attackers immediately in a crowded street, we'll know for sure.