Barbed Wire

[gbowman21]

Any thoughts?
I don't see many people talking about this in the forum or else I have missed it.
Is there going to be a model to represent barbed wire or will it be a deployable defence?

[Admiral Van Tromp]

Sometime ago there was an idea to put bared wire ingame, then I think it was impossible or wouldn't work vert well, so it died. If I am not wrong, the said idea was to replace the chevaux-de-frise (those wooden defenses against horses).

[.Mitch.]

Quite possible to do, and very easy actualy, we just need the model.

The thing is, we are concentrating on putting in the big models first, like the artillery.

But it will be done in future.

[Thoragoros]

Hmm...obviously I'm a little rusty on what is and is not possible at current, but would barbed wire act as a mere obsticle or as a damaging fortification similar to the horse traps except for infantry? In reality, barbed wire was actually just a passable obsticle that served to slow down infantry advances.

How would you simulate infantry removing the barbed wire, or getting the AI to treat it the same it treats horse traps with its cavalry?

[King Sama]

Well I don't know if it is possible to slow down infantry using stakes (possibly using coding which I know absolutely nothing about), but if we merely replaced the stake model with barbed wire wouldn't the ai at least treat it the same, knowing that it will kill its cavalry?

[Thoragoros]

Yes, it will treat the stakes -- remodeled as barbed wire -- the same as it did before, but would we actually want that? Since cavalry getting impaled on barbed wire while infantry marched harmlessly through wouldn't be credible.

The Great War, however, has been about innovation and finding not-so-obvious solutions to otherwise gigantic problems from the very beginning, so I'm sure that barbed wire, if it's deemed important enough, will find its way in.

[BrotherSurplice]

I heard that the team has found a way to implement America and Japan into the current campaign map, so I'm sure barbed wire won't be much of an obstacle to them (no pun intended).