Serpentines recruitable?

[Gigamacdaddy]

I've been playing as Venice in the Renaissance campaign, it's fun and all but at about the year 1524 is there a reason why I can't train advanced cannons like Basiliks or Serpentines yet? I've got pretty much every building in Milan and Venice and I can train poorer artillery like the Culverin or Mortar..

Also can the northern Italians build their heavy cavalry like lanzze spezziate/famiglia ducale? I've got Verona to a fortress (there's no way it'll get to a citadel), and I can't train them at Ragusa.. can I ever get them?


Also there's no family tree for the Venetians, maybe this has to do with them being a republic?

[SicilianVespers]

I will have to take a look a the files...

[Gigamacdaddy]

I was thinking I just needed to wait longer until those cannons were developed, much like how you have it set so that you can't train musketeers until the musket is developed.

[SicilianVespers]

You should be able to build the Monster Ribault from the Royal Arsenal. You will also need the Musket event, hidden resource main, and stronghold rights.

[Gigamacdaddy]

You will also need the Musket event, hidden resource main, and stronghold rights.

no idea what that is, can you tell me?

[SicilianVespers]

no idea what that is, can you tell me?

It is a hidden resource that determines what are the the "core" terrirories.

If you open the descr_regions.txt, and search for main, you will see which regions have it.

[Gigamacdaddy]

So for example, trying to build advanced cannons from Venice, I go to the venice part where it says..

Venice_Province
Venice
venice
Italian_Rebels
13 198 117
textiles, n_euro, s_euro, main, big_trade
5
9
religions { catholic 65 orthodox 10 islam 2 pagan 13 heretic 10 judaism 0 }


This means I need to have a merchant on the textiles resource before I can build them or something?

[SicilianVespers]

No, merchants and resources have nothing to do with it. The big_trade HR just deals with trade.

You should be able to build th Monster Ribault, Culverin, Ribault, and Bombard from the royal_arsenal.

These ar estill the vanilla values, so it probably needs to be looked at.

[Gigamacdaddy]

does this mean even though I'm into the 1600s I can't build anything better than a culverin? :-\

[SicilianVespers]

You can add it yourself for now.

The siege enginea are all setup as mercs, so all you need venice to the entry in the export_descr_buildings_early.txt file.

Just open the file, and search for NE_serpentine (or whatever you like). Then add venice to the list of factions.