Boiling oil looks like a waterfall?

**Vasquez** · April 22, 2008, 07:16 PM

No flames. Or is it just me?

**Clayton Gold** · April 22, 2008, 07:20 PM

Just you.

**ReichMaster420** · April 22, 2008, 07:22 PM

on the subject of boiling oil in 6.0... is it normal for it to continue pouring on my troops after ive captured the enemies walls?

this happened to me, i couldnt believe it

**Clayton Gold** · April 22, 2008, 07:23 PM

Did you capture the gatehouse ?

**TheColdTruth** · April 22, 2008, 07:31 PM

You need to Destroy or capture the gatehouse dose not matter if you have the walls.

**Vasquez** · April 22, 2008, 07:33 PM

Aw crap. Must be my vid card.

**Chim** · April 23, 2008, 09:45 AM

Originally Posted by Vasquez

Aw crap. Must be my vid card.

I doubt that it's a VGA problem perhaps your game has no textures installed of the oil?

**Vasquez** · April 23, 2008, 06:20 PM

Originally Posted by Chimaeira

I doubt that it's a VGA problem perhaps your game has no textures installed of the oil?

How can I tell ? I did a straight install.

**MiiKLL** · April 22, 2008, 08:07 PM

Hello,

Boiling oil was just that... boiling, I'm pretty sure. It did most of its damage from the severe scalding. Though I don't doubt that they weren't beyond throwing a burning torch out after the pour. I think that if they had lit the oil prior to pouring it there would have been a good chance of a flash fire or of damage done to defenders from burning splashing of the oil. I'm not an expert on this so I could easily be misunderstanding the concept too.

I have heard of the use of boiling water and super-heated sand as well being poured on attackers.

I think the graphic of attackers burning is for visual effect of the event in gameplay.

**dj LiTh** · April 22, 2008, 09:45 PM

Mmmmm french fries :usflag:

**Abbath** · April 23, 2008, 09:40 AM

Is it possible to remove the burning oil at all?

Pouring oil on attackers is totally unrealistic because oil was far too expensive in medieval times. They used rocks, furniture and other heavy items instead.

**Willowmound** · April 23, 2008, 09:43 AM

They certainly used boiling water. I suppose it was a matter of priorities whether you found pouring oil to be too expensive. If the option was to lose your settlement, and your head in the process...

**Abbath** · April 23, 2008, 09:53 AM

Originally Posted by Willowmound

They certainly used boiling water. I suppose it was a matter of priorities whether you found pouring oil to be too expensive. If the option was to lose your settlement, and your head in the process...

I see what you mean but oil wasn't available in such quantities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling...eated_missiles

**merlinuscdxx** · April 23, 2008, 10:29 AM

Originally Posted by Abbath

I see what you mean but oil wasn't available in such quantities.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boiling...eated_missiles

When "oil" is mentioned, it doesn't necessarily mean petroleum. Any oil would have the proper "stickyness" and flammability if heated to boiling. Some of the things that were used as "boiling oil" were rendered lard or tallow, rendered whale blubber,and rendered mutton fat (one of the more common items). All of these items would have been relatively common, as the rich ate plenty of meat, and all of the fat on those animals wouldn't be used for cooking or lamps, in fact mutton fat wasn't used for either of those purposes because of the gamy smell (in comparison to lard or beef tallow). And sieges still took an ungodly long time, so there would have been plenty of time to render oil for the defenses.

**Willowmound** · April 23, 2008, 10:08 AM

That's probably true.

Edit: Looked at the link. Heated sand! How interesting.

Second edit: But the point, I guess, is that hot liquids were a common defensive weapon, and should be represented in the game. Whether you call it oil or water or pitch or mud isn't that important.