Firing on your own walls.

[Motera]

Anyone else annoyed you cant tell the siege equipment to fire on your own walls? If my men are losing the wall might as well bring it down and take the enemy down with it.

[Aeratus]

You can fire at enemy units on the wall, however. You just can't target your wall directly.

[Motera]

My Catapults refuse to fire on them no matter where I place them...

[Aeratus]

My Catapults refuse to fire on them no matter where I place them...

Catapults cannot fire onto walls if the enemy units are too close because catapults have a low firing arc. However, Trebuchets and Mangonels can do so as long as the range is not too close.

[Motera]

Catapults cannot fire onto walls if the enemy units are too close because catapults have a low firing arc. However, Trebuchets and Mangonels can do so as long as the range is not too close.

Thanks for all the replies guys! Would be cool if you could tell it to bring down your own wall but guess this will have to do.

[Ferdiad]

Dont think its possible to bring down your own walls.

[Ichon]

Dont think its possible to bring down your own walls.

I think its possible but very unlikely as you can't target them. I've used cannons inside my walls firing at enemy and the misses started to make cracks in my walls but enemy unit moves away long before walls falls.

[Ferdiad]

Huh, learn something new everyday.

[Lazy]

What´s this file telling how your mosecursor looks like?
Have forgotten the name...
I bet inside there you can change the red X with what you have pointing it at enemy walls!

descr_mousecursor or something...

[Ferdiad]

No file of that name and just changing the look of the red X to the default one would do jack . You'd have to change the game engine(probably) for it to work like how your imagining it.

[Lazy]

1. I said "or something"
2. thanks for telling that if people would copy&paste only half of the code it would do not 100% the same... come on do not troll around!

Search for a thread asking how to make enemy siege engines usable.... or at least that problem was answered somewhere...
the solution will be the same!

Right now I am drinking coffee and smoking a cigarette... so I do not have time to do the search... if you know what I mean

[Ferdiad]

Regardless of your choice of drink or your smoking there is no tutorial for what your asking.

[Lazy]

Regardless of your choice of drink or your smoking there is no tutorial for what your asking.

1. Drinking coffee + smoking cigarette makes it easier to take a crap!
2. Not a tutorial => thread! read!
3. This information I am talking about was inside this thread...

come on!
I just try to help... you just try to show everyone... what exactly? Your posts are negativ and help no one!
Now I am annoyed... good luck!

[Ferdiad]

1. ..........
2. I did.
3.You cant target your own walls but you can damage them inadvertently
Really this bickering is going nowhere no need to get agitated.

[Lazy]

SS/data/descr_cursor_actions_battle_classic.txt

Here it is defined what hapens when you hold your mouse over stuff...

look for this:

selected artillery
{
    over own
    {
        infantry            Mo S use_select
        equipped_infantry    Mo S use_select
        cavalry                Mo S use_select
        artillery            Mo S use_select
        sapper                Mo S use_select
        handler                Mo S use_select
        coward                Mo S use_select
        sap_point            Na Na            tooltip artillery_cannot_sap
        equipment            Eq S 
        land                Mo Na
        water                Na Na
        building            A  Na
        empty_building        A  Na
        platform            Na Na            tooltip no_artillery_on_platforms
    }
    over allied_controlled
    {
        none                Ig Ig
        infantry            Na S  use_select
        equipped_infantry    Na S  use_select
        cavalry                Na S  use_select
        artillery            Na S  use_select
        handler                Na S  use_select
        sapper                Na S  use_select
        coward                Na S  use_select            
        sap_point            Na Na
        equipment            Na Na
        land                Ig Ig 
        water                Ig Ig
        building            Ig Ig 
        empty_building        Ig Ig
        platform            Ig Ig
    }    
    over enemy
    {
        default                A  Na
        equipment            A Na ;; Equip is now hardcoded to on ALT key Maybe have the porsiblilty of picking up others equipment
        empty_building        Na Na
        ;platform            Na Na            tooltip no_artillery_on_platforms
        platform            A Na
    }
    over allied
    {
        default                Na Na
        equipment            A Na ;; Equip is now hardcoded to on ALT key Maybe have the porsiblilty of picking up others equipment
        building            A  Na
        empty_building        A  Na
        platform            Na Na            tooltip no_artillery_on_platforms
    }
}

I have no idea what walls are...
platform is on top on walls... I think
empty_buildings perhaps...
If you play with that you will find out...