Aerys Targaryen Posted July 22, 2018 Report Share Posted July 22, 2018 Hello everyone! I was just wondering, why elephants were used as a replacement for seige machines in 0ad? Historically they were used to scare away enemy troops, break formation, trample and kill enemy soldiers quickly at the start of the battle etc.., Elephants are, more like Iberian fire ship, vulnerable unless used in the very beginning. Or they were made to damage buildings because of lack of replacement for seige? I'd suggest the following, (1) Aura - War elephants scare away enemy military, especially cavalry. All enemy cavalry has -20% attack and enemy infantry has -5% attack within X meters. (2) Elephant madness - War elephants, once it comes under attack, should be used within Y seconds. Else, elephant becomes mad and tramples nearby troops (even friendly troops) (3) Elephant Charge - War elephants can charge towards enemy troops.to kill them within a particular radius, then die. Charging speed should be at least 15 or so. If the enemy formation is tightly packed, then the elephant will kill more and if not, elephant will kill fewer troops. Civilizations like Mayurya, Carthage needs some seige machines like catapult or rams. I don't know specifically about those two civilizations, but other Indian civilizations had used catapults and bolts (bolts were sometimes placed above elephants too), so it won't be historically inaccurate to give bolts and catapults to those civs. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nescio Posted July 22, 2018 Report Share Posted July 22, 2018 Yes, I know, war elephants had many functions: prestige, intimidation, command posts for generals, lookout platforms, moving turrets for archers to shoot from, shielding infantry aganst cavalry, etc, however, they were *not* living battering rams (at least not in the Hellenistic Mediterranean). Gameplay (and conservatism) occassionally conflict with historical accuracy, though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted July 22, 2018 Report Share Posted July 22, 2018 I guess it's mostly because those mechanics were harder to make than the art for them (And the art is already hard) 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerys Targaryen Posted July 23, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 23, 2018 Oh I see. Thanks for the replies Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aerys Targaryen Posted July 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2018 So I was looking into different mods and I found this implementation in a mod named Delanda Est (I'm posting here so others can know and play that one). They have implemented some burning pig to scare off the elephants too The mod was really good and I'd recommend everyone to have a try. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asterix Posted July 30, 2018 Report Share Posted July 30, 2018 @wowgetoffyourcellphone seems like your mod is getting more popular 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lion.Kanzen Posted July 31, 2018 Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 6 hours ago, asterix said: @wowgetoffyourcellphone seems like your mod is getting more popular Because add many game play features and add more factions, basically the fandom wish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sphyrth Posted July 31, 2018 Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 Add to that the DE is the "fix the main game" vision mod. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 31, 2018 Report Share Posted July 31, 2018 21 hours ago, asterix said: @wowgetoffyourcellphone seems like your mod is getting more popular Indeed, 2.2k downloads on mod.io, Actually, 0AD’s mods are one of the most popular content on the site. About to hit 10k total downloads. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 10 hours ago, (-_-) said: Indeed, 2.2k downloads on mod.io, I desperately want to update the mod download to version 2, because I've fixed a ton of problems. The archiver is killin me though. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 Do you happen to remember which commit was at the time of bundling the one on mod.io currently? (I really dont want to have to clone the whole repo, disk space and stuff) If I have time I could try it on linux to see if that would make a difference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wowgetoffyourcellphone Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 1 hour ago, (-_-) said: If I have time I could try it on linux to see if that would make a difference. According to @stanislas69 the archiver will work fine on Linux but not Windows. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stan` Posted August 1, 2018 Report Share Posted August 1, 2018 Yup. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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