Idea for a mod

[hippacrocafish]

I just thought I'd throw this idea out there for anyone who's an experienced modder, I thought it'd be cool if you were able to capture enemy artillery pieces in the same way that you capture enemy ships in naval battles. To capture the pieces all you would have to do is beat the army with the artillery in their army, they flee and leave their cannons behind. Ideally you should be able to sell and keep artillery as you do with ships.

Any thoughts?

[Tango12345]

I'm pretty sure that is hard-coded and so impossible to mod...

[Marechal Ney]

Yeah...

Sadly you can't really mod that...though it seems like a tiny bit of scripting might be able to do something...

Perhaps to create a new artillery unit for the battle victor if all the enemy unit's guns are not destroyed?

IF artillery.in_defeated_team_TRUE
IF cannon_1_destroyed.texture_FALSE
IF cannon_2_destroyed.texture_FALSE
IF cannon_3_destroyed.texture_FALSE
IF cannon_4_destroyed.texture_FALSE
THEN createnewartillery x 1538, y 2672_victorfaction

Something like that, equated into proper coding terms?

[hippacrocafish]

Yeah...

Sadly you can't really mod that...though it seems like a tiny bit of scripting might be able to do something...

Perhaps to create a new artillery unit for the battle victor if all the enemy unit's guns are not destroyed?

IF artillery.in_defeated_team_TRUE
IF cannon_1_destroyed.texture_FALSE
IF cannon_2_destroyed.texture_FALSE
IF cannon_3_destroyed.texture_FALSE
IF cannon_4_destroyed.texture_FALSE
THEN createnewartillery x 1538, y 2672_victorfaction

Something like that, equated into proper coding terms?

That's more of what I was going for, I kind of thought the ship capturing script would be hardcoded.

[YD23]

Moved to Empire Mod Workshop > Miscellaneous

[Primergy]

Yeah...

Sadly you can't really mod that...though it seems like a tiny bit of scripting might be able to do something...

I would agree here. I'm quite shure via scripting would be much more possible then people believe. But since the scripting files are written in lua, you need a decent knowledge of programming, which actual only few guy's in the modding com seam to have.

[r3deed]

well napoleon men had another Idea check this video at 5:20