Weapon Ranges and Melee Damage

[zarlor]

I have a couple of things that have cropped up recently that I'm wondering if anyone else has some ideas on, both from Weird Wars: Rome.

The Mighty Throw edge should increase the range increment for thrown weapons. Does anyone know if there is a way to do that? My only thought currently would be to have a separate set of each of the thrown weapons just set with that range but that all have a pre-req of having the Mighty Throw edge. Maybe doing something to tag them so they are automatically added to inventory but hidden unless the Edge Exists?

The other one is I want to throw out there is for the Blood & Guts edge, where I would like to add a +1 to damage, but only with melee weapons or when unarmed. I suppose I could just throw out an activateable modifier on the In-Play tab for it, but maybe there is a way I'm just not thinking of right now to conditionally add that modifier in for non-ranged weapons that I'm not thinking of that some of you might have some ideas about.

 

[zarlor]

Caped was gracious enough to point me in a better direction for these so I have one working, but not the other.

For adding +1 to all Melee Damage I used the following at Pre-Traits/5000:

foreach pick in hero from WeapMelee
   eachpick.field[wpDmgBonus].value += 1
nexteach
perform hero.child[wpUnarmed].setfocus
   focus.field[wpDmgBonus].value += 1

Doing the replacement on thrown weapons, however, isn't quite working. I've tried the following at Pre-Traits/5000 and, Final/5000 and even Render/5000 but I can't seem to get the thrown weapon ranges replaced with 4/8/16. here's the code:

foreach pick in hero from WeapRange
   if (tagis[Weapon.Thrown] <> 0) then
      eachpick.field[wpShort].value = 4
      eachpick.field[wpMedium].value = 8
      eachpick.field[wpLong].value = 16
   endif
nexteach

Anyone have some ideas what I might be messing up there? I'm just not seeing it.

 

[Mathias]

I'm not seeing any problems, either. Is that all of the code in the script? If there's anything else, the problem could be elsewhere.

 

[zarlor]

No, but here's the full thing if it helps.

  <thing id="edgWRMigTh" name="Mighty Throw" description="The hero has learned special throwing techniques. He increases the range brackets of thrown weapons to 4/8/16. He also causes an extra +1 damage when using thrown weapons at targets within short range." compset="Edge" summary="Increase throw range: +1 throwing dmg at short range" uniqueness="unique">
    <usesource source="WWR"/>
    <tag group="MinRank" tag="1" name="Seasoned" abbrev="Seasoned"/>
    <tag group="User" tag="NeedWild" name="NeedWild" abbrev="NeedWild"/>
    <tag group="EdgeType" tag="Combat"/>
    <eval phase="Render" priority="5000"><![CDATA[foreach pick in hero from WeapRange
   if (tagis[Weapon.Thrown] <> 0) then
      eachpick.field[wpShort].value = 4
      eachpick.field[wpMedium].value = 8
      eachpick.field[wpLong].value = 16
   endif
nexteach]]></eval>
    <exprreq message="Throwing d10 required."><![CDATA[#traitfound[skThrowing] >= 5]]></exprreq>
    <exprreq message="Strength d8 required."><![CDATA[#trait[attrStr] >= 4]]></exprreq>
    </thing>

 

[Mathias]

Well, time to start testing all the details:

debug "Starting the script"
foreach pick in hero from WeapRange
debug "Found weapon: " & eachpick.field[name].text
   if (tagis[Weapon.Thrown] <> 0) then
debug "It's a throwing weapon"
debug "Current ranges: " & eachpick.field[wpShort].value & "/" & eachpick.field[wpMedium].value & "/" & eachpick.field[wpLong].value
      eachpick.field[wpShort].value = 4
      eachpick.field[wpMedium].value = 8
      eachpick.field[wpLong].value = 16 
debug "Final ranges: " & eachpick.field[wpShort].value & "/" & eachpick.field[wpMedium].value & "/" & eachpick.field[wpLong].value

   endif
nexteach

 

[zarlor]

********** Start Evaluation Cycle **********

Starting the script
Found weapon: Axe, Thrown
Found weapon: Pugio (Dagger), thrown
Found weapon: Sling


That's odd. Sling, of course, should not have show up as as Thrown weapon. Both of the other's are the Thrown version of their weapons.

So what I can see for the Axe, Thrown entry I have is this:

  <thing id="wpWRAxeTh2" name="Axe, Thrown" description="(This version is automatically added if you acquire an Axe)." compset="Ranged">
    <fieldval field="wpDamage" value="Str+d6"/>
    <fieldval field="wpShort" value="3"/>
    <fieldval field="wpMedium" value="6"/>
    <fieldval field="wpLong" value="12"/>
    <fieldval field="grCost" value="Mil"/>
    <usesource source="WWR"/>
    <tag group="Weapon" tag="Thrown" name="Thrown" abbrev="Thrown"/>
    <tag group="WeaponType" tag="MedRange" name="Medieval Ranged" abbrev="Medieval Ranged"/>
    <tag group="Hide" tag="Equipment"/>
    </thing>

So the tag looks right to me, but it's not showing the "It's a thrown weapon" debug message.

 

[Mathias]

Sorry I missed this one:

if (eachpick.tagis[Weapon.Thrown] <> 0) then

 

[zarlor]

Oh! Duh. Obviously I completely missed that part too. Thanks!