Instead they fire over the top of walls: the rockets’ high arc and long range lets them rain down on the enemy below, setting buildings alight, sowing panic and destroying morale in the process.ĭuring the Sengoku Jidai, the Japanese used incendiary weapons such as fire bombs and fire rockets in naval warfare. However, they are less powerful and accurate than cannons, and are not used to batter down the walls of a castle.
These men are armed with large arquebuses loaded with wooden rockets that are ignited and fired into enemy ranks to cause fires and panic.īecause they are launched from hand-held arquebuses, fire rockets are much more mobile than siege weapons. Fire Rockets are a type of siege unit in Total War: Shogun 2.
