Difficulties modding RTW/BI.

[wulfgar610]

Quite a few difficulties in modding the RTW/BI platform.

One thing that would nice would be a range of city walls more accurate historically.

The largest city walls anywhere in the world in the 4th century AD didn't top 50 feet too often and yet RTW's Epic walls are a ridiculous 100 feet high. Large provincial walls wouldn't exceed 36 feet and were similar in size to the basic stone wall of RTW. Even then most provincial cities would have had lesser defenses and in some cases none. Although the rewalling of cities in the less secure times of the Dominate was an ongoing process. Also stuff like moats and earthen ramparts were part of the deal, but instead RTW has nicely manicured lawns running at the base of its oversize walls.
Going by the design of Lugo's provincial walls with its closely spaced towers, siege weapon emplacement must have been a basic defense element.So much so that is was an attempt save on manpower with defensive machinery. But unfortunately the game doesn't allow you to move engine models on walls.

Red Foxes thread on modding walls is a good place to check on the limitations.

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=207462


Another thing is Garrison scripts. Unlike MTW, RTW has no direction condition of "settlement besieged", this creates a host of difficulties. RTW has faction besieged and character besieged but no settlement besieged.

It's easy enough to make a simple script for a single settlement of a faction, but multiple settlements will get their scripted garrison as soon as any of the factions settlements come under siege.

The SPQR mod has extremely convoluted garrison script to get around RTW limitations that is 30,000 lines long!!!

[Magister Militum Flavius Aetius]

M2TW is much more open with walls, Gigantus taught me how to mod the M2TW walls with Ballista Emplacements and such.