Trebuchet!!!

**dragases1453** · December 09, 2005, 01:42 PM

Templar019 is working on this trebuchet for the sieges...what do you think about?

**Shadows** · December 09, 2005, 02:27 PM

freakin sweet, trebuchets have always been one of my personal favorite seige engines. I always wanted someone to make a mod for one though. Can't wait for th finished product

**Pompei the Great** · December 09, 2005, 04:33 PM

Incredible!! Yea for Cursader: Total War the mod with trebuchets!

**Captain_Paulentineous** · December 09, 2005, 05:40 PM

That looks fantastic

**Templar019** · December 10, 2005, 02:29 AM

Thank's guys

it will be steady and it will have a long range and a bonus against the buildings
There's a problem
We don't know if build it in the warfield or in the city
What do you think about this?

**Tacticalwithdrawal** · December 22, 2005, 07:18 AM

Originally Posted by Templar019

Thank's guys

it will be steady and it will have a long range and a bonus against the buildings
There's a problem
We don't know if build it in the warfield or in the city
What do you think about this?

should be built in the cities, they were too complicated to build from scratch without the correct materials and skills around and needed some good precision (for the time) engineering due to the forces involved. Armies had to build them at home and carry them around with them, and that was really hard work.

In fact Edward I of England used one against Stirling castle. His army carried it all the way through England to Scotland, got to Stirling castle and started to set it up. The defenders of the castle saw it being built and immediately tried to surrender. Edward I basically deicided that they'd dragged the bloody thing all that way and there was no way he was going to stop using it, so he refused to accept the surrender until his men had had a few shots with the trebuchet

**dragases1453** · December 10, 2005, 08:23 AM

Thanks to all...we are working very very hard...we hope to release at least a beta version only for battles...

**Pompei the Great** · December 10, 2005, 08:42 AM

The beta with units will be enough to make the videos with.

**dragases1453** · December 10, 2005, 08:47 AM

Pompei you should download and install messenger...the link is http://messenger.msn.com/Xp/Default.aspx?mkt=it-it

**Templar019** · December 12, 2005, 10:51 AM

update

Now the trebuchet will have a mobile counterbalance, obviously with a fully new animation

**Maethius** · December 12, 2005, 12:29 PM

This looks like the "heavy" version of the trebuche. The first one might be considered "light"

**dragases1453** · December 14, 2005, 01:35 PM

We are finishing the trebuchet animation....and very very soon we will post in game screens

**Narakir** · December 14, 2005, 01:53 PM

Brillant job guys

**Mylae** · December 16, 2005, 03:48 AM

amaziiing!!!

**dragases1453** · December 21, 2005, 01:19 PM

Thanks to all!

Now the model is completed and it works in the battles, but we aren't still able to create a new skeleton.
We are perfect the trebuchet and i think tomorrow we'll post some nice screens!

**Caius Britannicus** · December 21, 2005, 03:09 PM

Originally Posted by dragases1453

Thanks to all!

Now the model is completed and it works in the battles, but we aren't still able to create a new skeleton.
We are perfect the trebuchet and i think tomorrow we'll post some nice screens!

You won't be able to create a new skeleton. Seige engines aren't editable. Its a very nice model but I don't think you'll be able to get it to animate perfectly if even partially realisticlly. Good luck with it.