Gatling towers

**Patricius** · 03-13-2006, 03:13

As said above the those siege towers do not hold much ammunition. I keep wall units if I am defending the wall at a distance. Only fire arrow archers are allowed near in the hope of setting them alight.

BTW

I have noticed how with epic walls the exact damage is registers on siege towers, otherwise it seems like chance to take them down.

**Seasoned Alcoholic** · 03-14-2006, 19:15

Originally Posted by Patricius

BTW

I have noticed how with epic walls the exact damage is registers on siege towers, otherwise it seems like chance to take them down.

I've noticed this as well after running a few tests in custom battles, whilst tweaking a few features in descr_engines and descr_projectile_new. What I've basically done is increased the fire_interval (as hoof has pointed out above) of each projectile, but to also decrease the projectile's damage / attack attributes.

Remember to create backups before you edit the text files.

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The attack attributes in descr_engines look like this (this is for the standard siege tower that goes up against standard / small stone walls):

Code:

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

Underneath this you should see each arrow projectile that can be fired from the siege tower, as below:

Code:

arrow_generator        2 21.8 3.3
aim_dir                0.0 0.0 1.0
aim_arc                1.0
fire_interval        1.5

arrow_generator        1 21.8 3.3
aim_dir                0.0 0.0 1.0
aim_arc                1.0
fire_interval        1.5

arrow_generator        0 21.8 3.3
aim_dir                0.0 0.0 1.0
aim_arc                1.0
fire_interval        1.5

arrow_generator        -1 21.8 3.3
aim_dir                0.0 0.0 1.0
aim_arc                1.0
fire_interval        1.5

arrow_generator        -2 21.8 3.3
aim_dir                0.0 0.0 1.0
aim_arc                1.0
fire_interval        1.5

Simply change fire_interval to a higher value to reduce the rate of fire.

To edit the siege tower's health value / flamability chance, you need to edit these attributes (above the attack attributes):

Code:

engine_flammable    true
engine_ignition        0.20

And further down:

Code:

engine_health        130

Edit the same values for the other 2 siege towers, which are middle_tower (vs large stone walls) and heliopolis (vs epic stone walls).

It looks like the siege_tower doesn't use the scorpion projectiles, but instead arrows. To make it fire like the other 2 siege tower types, simply edit the following:

Code:

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

Make it look like as below:

Code:

attack_stat         8, 2, scorpion, 100, 30, siege_missile, siege, piercing
attack_stat_attr    ap

And also change this:

Code:

projectile            arrow

to this:

Code:

projectile            scorpion

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In descr_projectiles_new, scroll down until you reach the ballistas / scorpions section (they're near the end of the file). There are several variations of each one, the actual ballista is the ballista siege weapon, whereas the tower_ballista is the ballista projectile used with epic stone walls.

To edit the damage impact of these projectiles, simply edit these:

Code: