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Knight
I know recoverable weapons have been suggested, but I looked through the stickied frequently requested features and didn't find any suggestions of this nature regarding missiles, so here goes:
Often times, I'm fighting on a field littered with punctured corpses and see a wave of enemy reinforcements coming to avenge the waves of their ilk I just slaughtered. Among this veritable forest of javelins I often wish I can pull one out of a corpse and hurl it at the cavalry that is about to ride me down. Of course, we all know you can't recover missiles yet and I end up trampled under hoof.
A lot of mods have already implemented scripts that allow you to pick up weapons from the fallen, but never recover any missiles actually embedded in the corpses. Granted, not all missiles can be recovered since they can be damaged when piercing armor, or designed to break like the Roman pilum so it can't be hurled back, but some of them should be recoverable.
I would like to see a new variable for missiles (throwing knives, daggers, axes, arrows, javelins, jarrids, etc) that govern the percentage likelyhood that it can be recovered from a corpse, with 0% being unrecoverable. Axes may be harder to remove as they have blunt edges that make it hard to slice backwards out of flesh The armor of the corpse should also determine if it can be recovered. Going through thick plate will damage the missile head and render it ineffective, and reduce the chance of recovery. Recovered missiles should also have a chance to be damaged when recovered.
Different projectiles should also have a different height from which they can be recovered. Long throwing javelins should be able to be recovered from horseback, albeit more difficult (lower %chance)
Finally, I also would like to see the AI programmed to take advantage of this feature.
Well, that's my suggestion. Let me know what you think.
Often times, I'm fighting on a field littered with punctured corpses and see a wave of enemy reinforcements coming to avenge the waves of their ilk I just slaughtered. Among this veritable forest of javelins I often wish I can pull one out of a corpse and hurl it at the cavalry that is about to ride me down. Of course, we all know you can't recover missiles yet and I end up trampled under hoof.
A lot of mods have already implemented scripts that allow you to pick up weapons from the fallen, but never recover any missiles actually embedded in the corpses. Granted, not all missiles can be recovered since they can be damaged when piercing armor, or designed to break like the Roman pilum so it can't be hurled back, but some of them should be recoverable.
I would like to see a new variable for missiles (throwing knives, daggers, axes, arrows, javelins, jarrids, etc) that govern the percentage likelyhood that it can be recovered from a corpse, with 0% being unrecoverable. Axes may be harder to remove as they have blunt edges that make it hard to slice backwards out of flesh The armor of the corpse should also determine if it can be recovered. Going through thick plate will damage the missile head and render it ineffective, and reduce the chance of recovery. Recovered missiles should also have a chance to be damaged when recovered.
Different projectiles should also have a different height from which they can be recovered. Long throwing javelins should be able to be recovered from horseback, albeit more difficult (lower %chance)
Finally, I also would like to see the AI programmed to take advantage of this feature.
Well, that's my suggestion. Let me know what you think.
