Siege weapons

[Professor_Dyar]

There are siege weapons in the game. They just are "off-stage".

The rationale is that the reducing power of an army besieging a fortress represents the ability of the attacking army to build siege engines to level the fortress' walls, while the defensive power represents the ability to repair the walls. Engineer units are particularly good at designing powerful siege engines, or well-constructed walls, which is why they get a bonus.

It has nothing to do with magic.

[Dedas]

I thought the units tore down the walls with their bare hands. Guess I was wrong...

[Sombre]

Siege weapons are best abstracted imo, but anti personnel war machines can actually work rather well in dom3.

[kasnavada]

Hum, and about that "toring down the wall"...

Why is there always a only tiny opening in the wall ? I'd sure love to have more that one invading point and / or being able to break some other part of the wall.

[Renojustin]

And why does it happen that sometimes a fort will have no tower weapons? Is this just related to the type of fort you build? Do any forts have tower weapons except for home provinces?

[Sombre]

That was covered in the 'problem of fort types' thread.

[cupido2]

O.k. thanks for the answers. Perhaps "siege weapons" was a bit misleading, I meant war machines on the battlefield that could be thematic like Scorpions and ballistas that could easily be implementent for nations like Phytium, MA Ermor or the like. E.g. Ballistas could be treated as giant crossbows that fire once every 3 turns.
Was just wondering though.

[Zeldor]

That is really a thing that we can add to Conceptual Content Mod. Size 4-6 is enough for normal war machines. Nothing fancy like huge neurobalistas.




You can add many things to that, including AoE fire, poison, decay...

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