Parthia ~ Armor Piercing Arrows

[Stormwolf]

Greetings,

I am attempting to implement armor piercing arrows for Parthia in my micromod. Please advise me on how to edit the export_descr_unit.txt
file to achieve this.

Thank you

[Artax]

I think it would have been enough to keep only one thread open with the same question. I think you will get the answer soon, so you can ask for one of those duplicate threads to be closed.

[Vequor]

Heres one from my private ExRM mod

type             parthian horse archer
dictionary       rtr_east_horse_archer
category         cavalry
class            missile
voice_type       Medium_1
soldier          persian_elite_archer, 26, 0, 7.4
mount            light horse
mount_effect     horse -2, camel -4, elephant -40
attributes       sea_faring,hide_forest,cantabrian_circle,very_hardy
formation        3, 4, 6, 6, 5,square
stat_health      1, 7
stat_pri         8, 12, arrow, 130, 50, missile, archery, piercing, none, 25 , 1
stat_pri_attr    Change this no
stat_sec         4, 12, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, knife, 0 , 0.8
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  0, 10, 0, flesh
stat_sec_armour  0, 0, flesh
stat_heat        0
stat_ground      -6, 0, -12, 0
stat_mental      13, normal, highly_trained
stat_charge_dist 40
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 390, 240, 104, 112, 500
ownership        parthia

type             parthian horse archer
dictionary       rtr_east_horse_archer
category         cavalry
class            missile
voice_type       Medium_1
soldier          persian_elite_archer, 26, 0, 7.4
mount            light horse
mount_effect     horse -2, camel -4, elephant -40
attributes       sea_faring,hide_forest,cantabrian_circle,very_hardy
formation        3, 4, 6, 6, 5,square
stat_health      1, 7
stat_pri         8, 12, arrow, 130, 50, missile, archery, piercing, none, 25 , 1
stat_pri_attr    To this ap
stat_sec         4, 12, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, knife, 0 , 0.8
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  0, 10, 0, flesh
stat_sec_armour  0, 0, flesh
stat_heat        0
stat_ground      -6, 0, -12, 0
stat_mental      13, normal, highly_trained
stat_charge_dist 40
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 390, 240, 104, 112, 500
ownership        parthia

What it should look like

type             parthian horse archer
dictionary       rtr_east_horse_archer
category         cavalry
class            missile
voice_type       Medium_1
soldier          persian_elite_archer, 26, 0, 7.4
mount            light horse
mount_effect     horse -2, camel -4, elephant -40
attributes       sea_faring,hide_forest,cantabrian_circle,very_hardy
formation        3, 4, 6, 6, 5,square
stat_health      1, 7
stat_pri         8, 12, arrow, 130, 50, missile, archery, piercing, none, 25 , 1
stat_pri_attr    ap
stat_sec         4, 12, no, 0, 0, melee, simple, piercing, knife, 0 , 0.8
stat_sec_attr    no
stat_pri_armour  0, 10, 0, flesh
stat_sec_armour  0, 0, flesh
stat_heat        0
stat_ground      -6, 0, -12, 0
stat_mental      13, normal, highly_trained
stat_charge_dist 40
stat_fire_delay  0
stat_food        60, 300
stat_cost        1, 390, 240, 104, 112, 500
ownership        parthia

As you can see I raised the power of the arrows a bit as well to reflect the armor piercing fact, but your free to do whatever you want.

For more info on the EDU see http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=88859

[Vectis]

I've already changed the Sarmatian horse archer to have armour piercing, as they would have had with their large recurve bows. All you do is change the stat pri attr from no to ap. I did this and immediately saw a much better result against armoured units. As we all know the Parthian Shot was reknowned for its armour piercing, so I was surprised when this ability wasn't already included, but this should do the trick.