Launcuhing?

[Kratos]

Ok whenever I give my units the launching trait for their weapons the enemy units only go up about as far as they can jump. Is there a way to make them go as far as if they were hit by elephants?

[Epistolary Richard]

It's a lot to do with the unit mass, however there's some kind of (relatively low) upper limit to soldier mass where any further increases don't have any impact. Mounts have a much higher mass limit (see the Yubstebs) which I reckon is one of the reasons they knock people that much further.

[Kratos]

Is there a way I can change the mass?

[Duke John]

I assume that you just want to change the soldiers' mass:

Open export_descr_unit.txt in either data\ or bi\data\. In this file each unit has an entry like this:

type             barb peasant briton
dictionary       barb_peasant_briton      ; Barbarian Peasants
category         infantry
class            light
voice_type       Light_1
soldier          barb_peasant, 60, 0, 0.7
...

Changing the last number (in bold) of the soldier line will change the mass of the soldier. I don't know the upper limit though.

[Atilius]

According to the Hard-coded limits thread (https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=42905)
it's at least 100.

[Epistolary Richard]

Yes, but as I said there won't be a great deal of difference in troops. For troops a mass of 100 is much like a mass of 20. It's only with mounts that a high levels of mass make a difference.