rockets?! niiiiiiice...

[Ex Tenebris Lux]

so, im still a bit of a m2tw noob, learning more by the day (still in the addicted stage lol). i am playing the latest version, gold package, with retrofit mod and grand units addon (so i can get the best of kingdoms on the standard grand campaigns).

i decided to see what it was like commanding a timurid army since they have some cool units (cannon on an elephant? daaamn...). i set up a battle where im defender, and i had a unit of that rocket arty piece... man was that awesome! my question is, in the standard campaign, will that only be for the timmies when they eventually appear or at some point will the european armies have access to rocket arty of their own?

i would think at least britain and possibly the italian factions would...

[Samir]

only as rocket elephant mercenaries as far as I know, the rest is ballistic artillery, though some are already close to intercontinental ballistic weapon such as Monster Bombard

[eggthief]

rockets lol?

[Monsieur Alphonse]

You can hire them (the rockets) as mercenary units in Russia (= Volga-Bulgar, Sarkel, Kiev, Caffa, Ryazan, Moscow, Smolensk and Novgorod) after the Mongols have invaded and gunpowder has been discovered.

[Ex Tenebris Lux]

You can hire them (the rockets) as mercenary units in Russia (= Volga-Bulgar, Sarkel, Kiev, Caffa, Ryazan, Moscow, Smolensk and Novgorod) after the Mongols have invaded and gunpowder has been discovered.

sounds good thanks for the info.

so we, we are reffering to the piece itself yes? i mentioned the elephants earlier but that wasnt what specifically caught my eye

[Theseus1234]

venice and milan get access to the "monster ribault" which is pretty much similar to the rocket launcher...only not on elephants, thus not making the ribault not nearly as cool.

anyways, the monster ribault has around 36 small tubes (4 times as much as the regular ribault) and has the "barrage" feature

a couple of factions get access to the regular ribault, like denmark.

[Surgeon]

Rocket Launchers without an elephant can be hired in the territories mentioned by Alphonse.

I've never seen the rocket elephants in the campaign without using cheats. I think they're available as mercs somewhere in the southeastern parts of the map after the Timurids come along, but I'm not sure.

[Strom]

I've never seen the rocket elephants in the campaign without using cheats. I think they're available as mercs somewhere in the southeastern parts of the map after the Timurids come along, but I'm not sure.

I've hired cannon bearing elephants and elephant arquebusiers in the deserts southeast of Jerusalem (vanilla campaign, unmodded) after the TImurids appeared but I've never seen rocket elephants there and I'm pretty sure that my Egyptian campaign lasted until a couple of turns before the timer ran out.

[Orgath]

in stainless steel the mongols have rocket launchers. they are just like the ones from the intro of vanilla. those rocket launchers are devastating. they pwn like ive never seen artillery pwn before

[Theseus1234]

wait, how are monster ribaults as compared to rockets in SS? ive never gotten that far and right now im too lazy to do a custom battle

[Gornard]

The mongels have rocket launchers as standard in vanilla too