Boiling Oil

[Benandorf]

Is there any way to take this out of the game? I believe spies turn it off, but it was the worst thing about Rome: Total War, and it's becoming increasingly more annoying as I play Kingdoms.

[SirGrotius]

I don't know about taking it out but I thought it was so ineffective as to be potentially bugged. For instance, sieging a citadel, I had a full unit of archers with a ram at the gates and they lost maybe 30% of their force and the ram had about 8% damage. Nothing really

[WhiskeyGhost]

ooh, boiling oil. This should only be effectively used if you block the entrance with soldier after the ram it (and if your sieging, you shouldn't be going through a gate in force if theres quality troops in the gateway, you should use some siege towers/ladders elsewhere)

[Callahan9119]

i love boiling oil, i like having to worry about it and i like it when the enemy screams when i use it

good fun all around

[Droce]

How do you get it to work? It seems pretty touch and go for me.

[antisocialmunky]

It has a low rate of fire and doesn't poor for very long.

[ReiseReise]

I liked it in RTW. The enemy always used the gate and lost half his army to the oil. Being the human I had the ability to knock down the walls and go around the gate.

Although, I am very glad they got rid of the sapper tunnels, those were really annoying when the enemy used them, and when you had them you couldn't even decide where to put them. The only good thing was the challenge of trying to set them on fire.