Walls Are Walls! (The siege balancing project

**Greenpatriot** · February 18, 2015, 04:16 AM

Hello Everyone!

Welcome to my big debut in the modding community. Aside from a few tiny mods for unit sizes in Rome 2.

I have taken it upon myself to pursue balancing out the sieges of Attila. Now what exactly do I mean by balancing? Well, I will not be touching any unit stats since I love the battle speed of Attila as it is right now. I also will not be touching much, if anything at all, of those scandalously sexy nomadic factions either...if I can help it, or any faction for that matter!

What I hope to achieve is making the walls and and actual structure of sieges, no pun intended, both realistic and interesting. I will be producing what we can all hopefully hope is a long line of very very popular modifications.

Now for the matter currently at hand which is Walls being walls. Walls are suppose to be walls dammit and I am sick and tired of CA thinking otherwise! When people dedicate their entire life and a handful of slaves to a defensive structure, they don't like them to dissolve like the USSR. My mod is nothing new since Magnar beat me to the punch (love his work by the way), but to be honest I took his idea and sort of ran with it. I have increased wall, tower, and gate hit points over 5 times their original value.

Changes in gameplay:

Each wall sections will require at least 4 large onagers to take down. And they won't have any ammo left over either.
Each stone tower will take half of a large onager's ammo. This is so the onager isn't useless after one tower.

What I hope to achieve is a balance and change up in strategy. More focus towards the artillery being used to roll over walls rather than through them while wall breaches become rare and expensive. Gates have also been buffed to promote cover fire from artillery before charging men up to the gates where they would otherwise be shot to death.

Aside from all of these new habits, free of charge, it should allow the new siege escalation feature to be a bit more useful, and players may consider carrying artillery around now.

Leave any comments below so that I can gather info on how the balance is working out for people. Otherwise, please enjoy the mod. I will hopefully be able to delight you with more soon.

Stronger_Fortifications.7z

**Karnil Vark Khaitan** · February 18, 2015, 04:31 AM

Welcome to the modding scene !
Hope to see more of this :3

**Antiokhos Euergetes** · February 18, 2015, 04:47 AM

Sounds good, I haven't had a campaign yet to really comment, but whole point of city walls in this period was defence. So good stuff.

**Greenpatriot** · February 18, 2015, 05:26 AM

Also, forgot to mention that barricades have been increased substantially. Magnar's still had them die in a few second due to the nature of how soldiers damage the structure. I may increase their hit points further in the future.

**The Wandering Storyteller** · February 18, 2015, 06:35 PM

This shouldn't cause any crashes or anything like that? I've just got ATW and I think I'm gonna let it be a while before I try out the mods.

**ABH2** · February 18, 2015, 07:11 PM

I'd really like to see (and may take it up myself, or at least my team) constructable walls make a return to the game. I don't know your personal modding areas, but with the new map tools, I'm hoping this is one of the real possibilities that opens up. Though minor settlements, from my quick playthroughs, are improved. Still not good enough in my view.

Anyway, nice work with this. Thanks.

**Greenpatriot** · February 18, 2015, 07:29 PM

Thank you so much or the feed back and I am primarily looking into the scripting mechanics of the battles. Map design will not be on my priority list, but I may look into custom maps eventually. I will be tampering with the fire values soon though and hopefully set the playing field for some very big changes for the better. Also, I have a link to my tower mod since towers are way too OP:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...ncing-project)