Military miners

[Wastipk]

I thought it would be cool to have a miner class in sappers, or just give sappers a pick so they can attack stone walls or dig at the bottom of them. It seems very rarely in history did cannons achieve a clean breach without the help of sappers and miners.

[Vicccard]

first of all, there's no thing as a 'clean' breach. Second, Miners were used to dig the siege lines towards the fortress, but eventually, the cannons had to do the final work.

[Wastipk]

Yes but don't you think it would be fun? Whenever I  pick sapper there is usually someone better than me who has used the build points, leaving me with not much to do except repair/destroy items and hit people.

I think being able to help with the main objective of getting a breach would be rewarding.

[Feldmarschall_Ben]

material to repair a broken wall would be fine
All kinds of wood and other stuff.

[Vicccard]

It's called a chevaux de frise. Or sandbags. Or a gabion.

[Wastipk]

It's called a chevaux de frise. Or sandbags. Or a gabion.

I think he means being able to use materials lying around rather than waste build points.

[Widow_maker]

Hmm it would be interesting but probably is not going to happen/

[Feldmarschall_Ben]

That´s what I meant.



For example.

[Widow_maker]

Ok, still that's a big update.

[Wastipk]

I don't see why my original idea is a big update, the walls can already be damaged, and picks wouldn't be hard to make?

[Widow_maker]

Your adding a new concept to the game. Its like adding new units. Would probably have to pay?

[lord_olafson]

We have mine and trench digging, just no maps with it, because its so boring. Back in the beta days we had a test siege map with mining.
You can still create a custom map with it.

[Vicccard]

we have mines? Or do you mean the crates?