Dwarven Blunderbusses

[20ninescene]

I discovered there's a hidden unit in FATW called Dwarven Blunderbusses. I wonder why it is disabled.

[CountMRVHS]

They're something of an Easter Egg unit, as you can imagine. They're not implemented currently into the game because (IIRC) the building conditionals we required didn't work. We're thinking of a way to put them into the game - but of course we don't want them to be too widely available.

I dearly want to see them in-game, if only because I was able to work in a lengthy quote/reference to "Farmer Giles of Ham" into their description. The trick is getting them to show up in a way that makes sense for gameplay and (stretched) lore.

[Tulkasthevaliant]

You could only make them available to train in one settlement, such as Barad-eden? Say that Sauron had squirreled away some experimental Numenorean technological designs that only the Dwarves are able to properly forge or summat. Or maybe Umbar, I dunno.

[CountMRVHS]

Yep, that's the idea (though which settlement I'll leave to speculation!). However, we don't want to have there be something too obvious like a "Blunderbuss Manufacturing, Inc" building in there. Originally there were supposed to be a couple of buildings that you needed. Can't remember the exact details now.

[20ninescene]

Also I noticed they are bugged: it often causes a ctd when they fire their weapons and the smoke effect looks weird. a few years ago I've managed to create realistic gun fire & smoke effects on the rtw engine (unfortunately I lost the files), but I could try to recreate it.