Noob Question... How do the Pila work?

[Havan_IronOak]

It's listed as a throwing weapon but expendable. If my colonist uses one, do they get one shot and then they're unarmed? 

I DO intend to try it but so far I've made some and armed a few colonists but I've not been able to experiment with an attack yet. I'd LOVE to know going in what's gonna happen.

[TLHeart]

it is multiple use just like a bow.

[filippe999]

it is multiple use just like a bow.

so like any gun in the game, ammo is infinite and the only thing to think about is reload time?

[Dr. Z]

Yes.

[SSS]

it is multiple use just like a bow.

so like any gun in the game, ammo is infinite and the only thing to think about is reload time?

The only single-use weapons in the game I know of are the rocket launchers. Pila can be used ad infinitum.

[Silvador]

A pila is a spear, so, just like arrows, you don't get them back once you've used them. I've never used pilas, though, so I don't know how they work, as far as ammunition goes.

[TLHeart]

in game, you have unlimited uses of the pila.

[BetaSpectre]

Infinite uses, but its such a bad weapon I often opt to punch with bare fists you'll likely never kill anything with a bow or pila unless you have a lot of them.

That said if you're just going to use fists its not bad to have something that can shoot first.

[TLHeart]

I kill the enemy all the time with pilas... they have a range of 20, are accurate at 10 and do MORE damage than the great bow, or the survivel rifle. And I can make them at the smithing bench.

[Havan_IronOak]

I'm thinking of a capture strategy in which using a pila then closing to melee might be the best. I've been using pistols and rifles as I can get them but the captives often have severe wounds and die before the battle is resolved an they can be captured and treated. I was thinking that pila might be a good alternative.

[BetaSpectre]

I kill the enemy all the time with pilas... they have a range of 20, are accurate at 10 and do MORE damage than the great bow, or the survivel rifle. And I can make them at the smithing bench.

I haven't used Pila's since Alpha like 4/5; Maybe I ought to check em out after all.

[jefferyharrell]

You guys are driving me crazy. Pila is plural. The singular is pilum, which is a type of spear. The in-game conceit is that each pawn carries a few pila and, for each attack, throws one pilum. But the game doesn't keep track of how many pila each pawn has, so each pawn effectively has infinite pila. A pawn can throw one pilum after another forever, just like a pawn armed with a gun has effectively infinite bullets.

[praguepride]

You get a pilum! You get a pilum! EVERYBODY GETS PILA!

[Kaballah]

ITSA PILA PILUM AYYYYY