Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-25178962-20140806130856/@comment-25178962-20140808005049

And yet, with an unnoticable and placeable bomb, you CAN make a medieval wall unretoolable - by blasting off one of the ramparts. You seem to underestimate the demand for a less volatile and more practical alternative to gunpowder. With these precision instruments, you can:

- Raid more effectively, avoiding detection while making buildings unretoolable, and in the case of smaller buildings like Forges, unusable.

- Trade more effectively. Essentially, the Small Bomb would be an alternative gunpowder for warmongerer's everywhere when they are deciding what explosive to purchase.

- Defend more effectively. These small, controlable explosives can be extremely intimidating to those while pursuing you. In combination with a bottleneck (like Magma's secret entrance), this makes for a very deadly booby trap that is more difficult to notice because it does not change color on activation.

When you call it filler, you are suggesting it does nothing new, and brings no new elements to gameplay. I counter with a few more points.

Adding to the usefullness of catapaults (and thus making Engineering a slightly more important Skill). I know I have already brought this up before, but Small Bombs can be launched less noticably than gunpowder. When you have little idea of whether the ground beneath you is about to blast apart or not, you are more likely to surrender to whatever group/individual is launching them.These also would be easier to fit in the Catapault than placing a small leaves, carefully adjusting it into the catapault, putting a gunpowder on it, lighting the small leaves, and hoping the thing doesn't blast you to high heaven before you can launch it. Traditional tribal warfare would be much more practical to lead.