The Holy Banana of Jerusalem (Projectile)

**Aranruth** · September 07, 2007, 01:28 PM

Ladies and Gentlemen,

let me present to you the Holy Banana of Jerusalem brought to us by the good people at The Creative Assembly (see attached pictures for a first impression). The Holy Banana of Jerusalem is a little easter egg in the Crusades campaign that, however, seems to need a bit of work to get a look at:

If you look at descr_projectile.txt in the Crusades campaign (you have to unpack it first with the (tools/unpacker/unpack_crusades.bat), if you know what you are doing) you will notice at the very bottom two entries for somewhat unusual projectiles (or did CA discover some previously unknown papyri that will revolutionize historical knowledge on medieval projectile weapons?):

Code:

projectile super_banana
....
projectile banana

Now, there seem to be no units actually using these projectiles, but you can easily fix this oversight yourself by changing the projectile type for any ranged unit.

As an example, let's use the Mangonel (but it really should work with any ranged unit, tested with various catapult/canon style units as well as with archers and gunners). Replace (in export_descr_unit.txt, of course)

Code:

stat_sec         65, 3, mangonel_shot, 250, 10, siege_missile, artillery_gunpowder, blunt, none, 26, 1

with

Code:

stat_sec         65, 3, super_banana, 250, 10, siege_missile, artillery_gunpowder, blunt, none, 26, 1

Then you should be able to enjoy the devastating effect of the super_banana ... (don't forget --io.file_first). Of course you can also add it to an archer unit .... with even more devastating effect (look at picture 3 for the effect of only a few simultaneous explosions).

So now, dear modders, what realistic, novel, and fun units can we come up with that shout bananas with tactical-nuke power .... just imagine ...

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Aranruth

**zznɟ ǝɥʇ** · September 07, 2007, 01:31 PM

OH..MY..GOD!

Great find!

**HansDuet** · September 07, 2007, 01:35 PM

They have played Worms! Bananas...

**Spurius** · September 07, 2007, 01:51 PM

Seems pretty devastating on your own troops as well

(2 mangonel crews are halved after a few shots)

**DorosTheConqueror** · September 07, 2007, 03:34 PM

This is the greatest post ever. Now all we need is for someone to make a Ninja Rope and the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch and we're set!

P.S. Don't try firing 20 Banangonels at once. Major CTD time with that plan.

**Aranruth** · September 07, 2007, 05:13 PM

Thanks a lot for the nice comments, everyone.

Originally Posted by DorosTheConqueror

P.S. Don't try firing 20 Banangonels at once. Major CTD time with that plan.

There is definitely serious lag involved in the banana ... after all it has to be devastating in every aspect, in and outside the game world. However, I set up a recreation of The Battle at Jacob's Ford (a Templar version of Thermopylae, well, kind of) ... two units of banana-armed Templar Crossbowmen against about 2000 Saracens. After some option reduction, that actually worked out fairly nicely, see the attached images (the first three are the first (and only) salvo fired, the last is from the death movie of the enemy general).

Of course, you can do similarly funny things by using, e.g., burning canon shots, rocket missiles, or the new grape shots (only available in Crusade not in the other campaigns, as far as I can see) on archer or gunner units ... Grape shots on say Musketeers are really great, it looks like machine gun fire. Kind of reminds me of Weber's Belisarius series ...

Ok, enough with these banana pictures ...

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Aranruth

**Swagger** · September 07, 2007, 06:32 PM

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/attac...0&d=1189203129

(picture by Aranruth )

as you can see the banana holy missile is pretty effective

thank you Lord for a holy relic from Banana Republic

**The Walrus** · September 07, 2007, 07:15 PM

Holy ****, good find

This should be fun

**William the Bastard** · September 07, 2007, 07:54 PM

Anyone found nuclear ballistic missiles yet? They would PWN all before them!!!

**_TubbZ_** · September 07, 2007, 08:06 PM

i think the smilie sums them up pretty well. Also i have an idea for a mod Worms: Total War

**DorosTheConqueror** · September 07, 2007, 08:14 PM

Oh, so they DO have grapeshot in the Crusades. Nice! And yeah, I was playing around with different weapon types a couple days ago... made some really awesome Flammenwerfants- flame thrower and mangonel armed elephants. I'll post some screens later if you want.

**Hellbent** · September 07, 2007, 08:38 PM

Originally Posted by DorosTheConqueror

This is the greatest post ever. Now all we need is for someone to make a Ninja Rope and the Holy Handgrenade of Antioch and we're set!

P.S. Don't try firing 20 Banangonels at once. Major CTD time with that plan.

"Bangonels"

**Captain Blackadder** · September 08, 2007, 03:20 AM

very funny must try that when I get Kingdoms

**TWoxy** · September 08, 2007, 04:03 AM

Unbelievable find! Can't wait to try it out!

**deathblow** · September 08, 2007, 04:13 AM

It's not a easter egg
did'nt you use heros's ablility yet?
it's hero's ability.. I'm already using banana...

" <hero_ability>
<name>Super_Banana_Bomb</name>
<duration>0</duration>
<normal_tooltip_label>EMT_HERO_SPECIAL_ABILITY_DEFAULT_NORMAL</normal_tooltip_label>
<disabled_tooltip_label>EMT_HERO_SPECIAL_ABILITY_DEFAULT_DISABLED</disabled_tooltip_label>
<normal_sprite>HERO_ABILITY_BANANA_BUTTON_IMAGE</normal_sprite>
<selected_sprite>HERO_ABILITY_BANANA_BUTTON_IMAGE</selected_sprite>
<disabled_sprite>HERO_ABILITY_BANANA_BUTTON_IMAGE_DISABLED</disabled_sprite>
<hero_ability_effects>
<hero_ability_effect>
<name>projectile</name>
<projectile_name>super_banana</projectile_name>
</hero_ability_effect>
</hero_ability_effects>
</hero_ability>
</hero_abilities>"