How to add shell shot as a selectable ammo option for Artillery?

[Jlmrtl8302]

Greetings,

I've been playing with the idea of adding shell shot as a selectable ammunition option for Artillery pieces ( kind of like Howitzers have shell and lime shot as possible ammunition options on the battle HUD.)

Does anyone know how I can go about doing that? That way I could still select between round shot, case, and then a new shell shot for a 6 or 12lb battery for example.

btw, I'm using the grenades stats for the explosive shot for ordinance. I've got it set up so that a direct hit kills around 5-6 soldiers. If I get a ground impact in front of a Line Regiment it still kills about 2-3 soldiers. The air burst are nice to and get 2-4, sometimes more. Works pretty good but I had to replace standard round shot. I just wish I could still have the option to use round shot as well, it works better against cav units. Was also thinking about reducing the damage of my shell shot on hard targets, such as forts, so that using a solid round shot would be an ideal ammunition type for that particular scenario.

Later on I would like to mod the research tree so that my shell shot ammunition would become available until after you research it.

Any advice or a point in the right direct for information on how to go about it would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks

[JaM]

Every gun has limited amount of ammo types it could use. Howitzers can only have solid shot, explosive shot (upgradable to percusion shot), limeshot, carcass and shrapnel. guns can have canister, solid shot and shrapnel. While you can assign whatever projectile type to certain gun you want, it wont be selectable in battle, as UI options are limited to those i mentioned.. Therefore only way how to give certain gun different ammo type is by modifying existing ammo to work as the new.. For example, i have changes solid shot which is fired by Howitzers into Canister, so if you select solid shot, howitzer will fire canister instead.. (but crew will still tell they armed solid shot...

[Jlmrtl8302]

That's a shame, it would have been a cool idea lol. Thanks for info on it. I searched all 56 pages and didn't see anything that mentioned how to go about it. I guess that should have been my 1st red flag that it couldn't be done, but had to ask just in case. +rep for the help btw.

[JaM]

you can do it by transforming shrapnel shot into explosive shot, so once its selected, gun will fire explosive shot instead..