Hi, I was thinking about making a mod called "running with swords", but I had some questions

1. Is it possible to have a melee weapon as primary while reducing the killing power of knives, or remove them alltogether?
2. It seems making a bow and a crossbow would be easy, as the crossbow would be a slow but high powered weapon and the bow a quick, low power weapon. (not a question I know, just an observation.)
3. Is it possible to make a horse as vehicle with capacity for one?
4. Is it possible to replace the mortar with a catapult effect?
5. What would be a medieval equivalent to grenades? related to 4.

Thanks!

They had clay grenades

1. No, not at this point. AI would not be able to handle it, also the weapon system currently relies on having projectile-type weapons around. It is likely this will be generalized in the future, but it's hardly a priority right now.
3. No, currently the vehicles are just hardcoded. I'm about to expose their definitions soon which will allow vehicle modding to some extent, but I suppose a properly animated horse as a vehicle will be out of scope. Having said that, in my opinion, "RWR goes Mount & Blade" would be about the best thing ever
4. Mortars are hardcoded as well. I have ideas how to make them configurable and sit better in the item system in the game in general, but I don't have an idea when I'm able to work with it.

Fuck yes,

RWR plus Mount and Blade with an rts engine like warlodsbattlecry and... yeah... maybe it should toast bread you put in!

But i have an idea for the catapult. make a trebuchet and let it throw cows like in stronghold! would be funny as hell!

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For point # 1, what about (as a workaround) having a ranged weapon with max 0 ammo? (I haven't looked too closely at modding so may be way off the mark.)

What if it was, the gun has a remodel of a sword, and max ammo of 0, and the knife was that same sword? You wouldn't have long ranged, but it would still be 1 hit kill knives. :U

And grenades would still be there.

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Those are actually very good ideas.

AI would still mostly try to fire from a range, so their behavior at a distance might be a bit dumb but once you'd get close they'd use stabbing at least. I'm hoping they wouldn't try reloading all the time because of having 0 ammo.

What's next then, a bow?

Shortbow, longbow, crossbow, slingshot... And of course vehicles (horses for the jeeps, trebuchet for the APC, and maybe a "bring out your dead" wagon to replace the truck?!? ).

This sounds like it would be awesome!

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Well one way of making a bow is having a gun with one bullet and a longer reload time. Once you made an animation for a soldier pulling a arrow out of a quiver then that will work. I don't know about how the arrows would fly thought since the bullets are not there and how to make it effect gravity.