Artillery thoughts

**HFox** · 01-11-2007, 08:54

Stone throwers

Jeez they can carry around a lot of heavy rocks when they move!

1. Should they have so much ammunition?
2. If heavy stone throwers move from their starting position in a battle should the amount of ammunition they have reduce?
3. If any artillery piece moves from the place it was originally sited should its ammunition be reduce, more for the heavier artillery by proportion, less for the ballista type?

Seiges

1. If your beseiging army has artillery, should the effect of the seige cause more casualties/damage depending on the type and number of artillery through the seige.
2. If your beseiging army is attacked, why isnt the battle on the city map. You seem to get too much of an advantage by being able to set up as a normal battle. Perhaps this could happen some percent of the time if the besieging army is surprised.
3. Plagues and disease - any chance of including it for either defender or attacker or both to develop a horrid wilting curse :) because of the siege

Artillery attack

Probably an ai thing but if you use artillery, the AI soldier seems to be happy to stand there and get creamed! Is there anyway of tweaking this so those under fire actually do something sensible....like run away :)

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 01-11-2007, 09:05

You are about to get the most common answer to RTW questions...

**Thaatu** · 01-11-2007, 09:10

...it's hardcoded.

**fallen851** · 01-11-2007, 09:10

Moving on to the most important topic related to artillery...

Will we see the new models in 0.81?

**Zaknafien** · 01-11-2007, 15:20

as fas as having less ammunition if they move, i would imagine theres probably a wagon with ammunition following them around. but really moving around during battle is pretty silly anyway.

**Shigawire** · 01-13-2007, 05:32

Only way these things would move was if you disassembled the syrinx, diostra etc.. and then moved with pack animals. Though it is likely that the smaller artillery (arrow-projectors) had wheeled designs also..
The large ones had certainly not.

fallen: it's in the pipeline, I've just been so busy with things beside the mod.. just had new years vacation and all that.

**Kull** · 01-13-2007, 19:48

Originally Posted by fallen851

Moving on to the most important topic related to artillery...

Will we see the new models in 0.81?

In v.81? Definitely not.

**Shigawire** · 01-13-2007, 23:55

Well I've just set the building of artillery in motion.
But probably not done for 0.81 no..

**Caveira** · 01-14-2007, 01:34

WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!

So if it's not coming in 0.81, what's the name of the versiono it's coming in, 1.0? Is such version planned for this year, 2007? Thanks for the answer!