Please add slings to crpg.. slings are cool..

[Ninja_Khorin]

A sling can be done with a crude animation. Flails not so much.

[Teeth]

Do you know what a flail is? It is a weapon you can whirl around. Do you know the engine doesn't support it? (according to the DEV's)
Do you know what a sling is? It is a weapon you can whirl around. Hence....

Get fucked nerd! (Thanks to Shik for teaching me proper responses!)

Your problem solving abilities are lacking.

On the topic: No, they have no business in this mod historically nor do they have a their own niche to fill. Although I agree on the slings are cool part.

[Inglorious]

Buff throwing stones! haha noo... But cool idea

Can you imagine how annoying a professional peasant rock thrower would be, if you were a knight with a tin can for a head IRL? We already know what frug can do with them in game

[Rumblood]

Your problem solving abilities are lacking.

On the topic: No, they have no business in this mod historically nor do they have a their own niche to fill. Although I agree on the slings are cool part.

Uhh no, I'm not a Dev and not the one who said that the engine does not support whirling weapons.

Did laying on the floor and kicking your feet while crying help as a child when told you couldn't have something? Someone lacked parenting abilities.

[Snoozer]

Buff throwing stones! haha noo... But cool idea

Can you imagine how annoying a professional peasant rock thrower would be, if you were a knight with a tin can for a head IRL? We already know what frug can do with them in game

dear god i cant imagine how painful a rock would be to a full plate helmet *shudders* it would be like a giant bell surrounding your head the sound would be terrible and if it dents the helm into your skull your dead X_X

[Callan]

Slings do look awesome, maybe make them more accurate than bows but make them do less damage (blunt) if they can be implemented properly.

[Torost]

On the topic: No, they have no business in this mod historically nor do they have a their own niche to fill. Although I agree on the slings are cool part.

Partially true, if the aim is medieval Europe only. But we all know that the limits are a bit stretched already. Slings were popular among infantry in spain and portugal at this time vs AGI-Moors.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sling_(weapon)#The_sling_in_medieval_period

And if you read further down, there are other types of slings aswell.
Staff slings/stave slings and a cool type made from leather used to sling darts
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kestros but they were popular much earlier than the medieval period.

[LordRichrich]

Do you know what a flail is? It is a weapon you can whirl around. Do you know the engine doesn't support it? (according to the DEV's)
Do you know what a sling is? It is a weapon you can whirl around. Hence....

Get fucked nerd! (Thanks to Shik for teaching me proper responses!)

... or you just have a rigid piece of cloth that rotates in the hand without flail physics.

Get fucked nerd!

[CrazyCracka420]

dear god i cant imagine how painful a rock would be to a full plate helmet *shudders* it would be like a giant bell surrounding your head the sound would be terrible and if it dents the helm into your skull your dead X_X

I imagine me (as someone who hasn't played baseball in 10 years) could still do some blunt damage to your head in a full plate helmet with just throwing it (depending on the size and weight of the rock and how close I was).  This is obviously true if you think of a few hundred pound stone being "thrown" (dropped) on someone's head.  It's just a matter of at what point is the weight of the rock and velocity of the rock going to be too light/slow to cause damage.

If I had a sling I could pretty much guarantee it would do some damage to your head protected by full plate.

[Snoozer]

I imagine me (as someone who hasn't played baseball in 10 years) could still do some blunt damage to your head in a full plate helmet with just throwing it (depending on the size and weight of the rock and how close I was).  This is obviously true if you think of a few hundred pound stone being "thrown" (dropped) on someone's head.  It's just a matter of at what point is the weight of the rock and velocity of the rock going to be too light/slow to cause damage.

If I had a sling I could pretty much guarantee it would do some damage to your head protected by full plate.

yep yep thats why i never understood why rocks didnt do more damage to plate.

[Strider]

If this was added I'd change my build to sling shooter rigt away! 

[Rumblood]

... or you just have a rigid piece of cloth that rotates in the hand without flail physics.

Get fucked nerd!

That's called leather glove with throwing stone 

Hey whatya know? It's already IN GAME!

[Teeth]

Uhh no, I'm not a Dev and not the one who said that the engine does not support whirling weapons.

Did laying on the floor and kicking your feet while crying help as a child when told you couldn't have something? Someone lacked parenting abilities.

I'm glad you are not a dev. I am going to slowly explain it to you even though it has already been mentioned twice in this thread.

The entire slinging part can be recreated with a animation, you do not need a proper physics system for a sling. A simple animation with an arm spinning a sling would work perfectly fine. Much like drawing a bow, clicking would start the animation and when you release the button the finishing part of the animation will be played which consists of throwing a round shaped projectile. That is all you need, an animation, a sling model and a round projectile model. It is all perfectly possible within the Warband engine. I am pretty sure I have played a mod for Warband which already had slings, Brytenwalda probably.

[Rumblood]

I'm glad you are not a dev. I am going to slowly explain it to you even though it has already been mentioned twice in this thread.

The entire slinging part can be recreated with a animation, you do not need a proper physics system for a sling. A simple animation with an arm spinning a sling would work perfectly fine. Much like drawing a bow, clicking would start the animation and when you release the button the finishing part of the animation will be played which consists of throwing a round shaped projectile. That is all you need, an animation, a sling model and a round projectile model. It is all perfectly possible within the Warband engine. I am pretty sure I have played a mod for Warband which already had slings, Brytenwalda probably.

Yeah, because having the Dev's code in a new animation where the arm rotates like a spinning prop so that it can still just throw a rock is exactly how they should spend their time. And it still wouldn't look like a sling.

[WITCHCRAFT]

Can we have spear throwers too? I've always wanted those to be in the game...