how to capture artillery?

[Silverfern]

I have seen artillery captured when i do auto resolve, but when i fight the battles on the map, how do i capture them?

[Yarkis de Bodemloze]

If you win the battle and the enemy unit isn't retreating there is a chance that you capture the guns.

[Lazarus]

Actually, I've found that I pretty consistently capture the guns if I make the enemy gun crew route and the battle ends before they've nicked off the battle field

[Etarded]

sooo anybody have a conclusive answer to this? Doing a legendary tosa campaign and facing lots of them damn parrot guns that I'd like to chuck back at em

[hochmeister devin]

Nice to know they finally put capturing artillery in, it makes you want to be more careful how you transport it, just letting it walk some where may lead to it being captured.

[♘Top Hat Zebra]

Nice to know they finally put capturing artillery in, it makes you want to be more careful how you transport it, just letting it walk some where may lead to it being captured.

Apparently it's been in since Empire...

[Corporal Carrow]

Apparently it's been in since Empire...

Really? I would love to know how to do that, I've never heard of that till now...


Now they just need to figure out how to code letting you capture and use the enemy guns within a battle, and the artillery aspect of the franchise will be damn good.

[♘Top Hat Zebra]

Really? I would love to know how to do that, I've never heard of that till now...


Now they just need to figure out how to code letting you capture and use the enemy guns within a battle, and the artillery aspect of the franchise will be damn good.

Not certain. I read it from somewhere else.

[wealthmonger]

I just attacked a castle with a bunch of parrot guns. They had 1 parrot gun which I destroyed with mine. After the battle it was captured.

So all you need is a little glue, tape and bailing wire to capture artillery

[Babaganoush]

The only guns I capture almost 100% are Wooden Cannons...

Seriously Asia, Wooden Cannons?

[Etarded]

The only guns I capture almost 100% are Wooden Cannons...

Seriously Asia, Wooden Cannons?

same all I ever get to keep are the wooden pos'

[Prnn]

The only guns I capture almost 100% are Wooden Cannons...

Seriously Asia, Wooden Cannons?

They didn't have the capacity to produce bronze, iron, copper, or any other damn metal cannon.

So they went with what they had, which was wood.

Hilariously enough America has produced wooden cannons too, although those were created just to screw with the enemy's head.
America has a grand old tradition of doing that actually, having deployed wooden cannons in the civil war and balloon tanks in WW2.

[♘Top Hat Zebra]

I've caught some Parrot guns once.

[♔The Black Knight♔]

Once I caught a set of Gatling guns on hard in1877. I had finished an elite army to counter an ai super army of 3 stacks. I fought them on the battle field. There army was full of levy so eventually I took them down with several bombardments and cannons. I had destroyed the Gatling guns but apparently I was able to use them in my own army. It was pretty awesome.

[MasterBigAb]

I love capturing canons, a nice little feature

Now they just need to figure out how to code letting you capture and use the enemy guns within a battle, and the artillery aspect of the franchise will be damn good.

Yes would be awesome

[Santeri]

Capturing artillery was possibility in ETW, like said, thought it wasn't implemented in main version but various mods will do that.

In FotS I find it to be very random to capture some. If enemy has one you may or may not get it if you win.

But word of advice: don't use artillery when you are using guerilla tactics. I lost all my three precious "armstrongs" when I withdrew from battlefield

[♘Top Hat Zebra]

It shouldn't be TOO hard. I mean, just allows artillery crews to grab other artillery crews' guns.

Including the enemy's.

[♔The Black Knight♔]

It shouldn't be TOO hard. I mean, just allows artillery crews to grab other artillery crews' guns.

Including the enemy's.

Hey, in Shogun 2 you could order the crew to disband and reequip artillery. Maybe this could be come a future mod idea.

[Ferdiad]

I didn't even know this was possible.

[♘Top Hat Zebra]

We've been able to do that since, like, Rome.

I would think if it were moddable, it would be done by now.