Walls and siege

**Sonny WiFiHr** · August 04, 2007, 07:13 PM

I think that walls should be stronger and/or non gunpowder siege engines weaker on att walls.Ballista should be inf killer unit (not siege engine) with longer range than longbow (or x-bow) and firing rate should be faster (not faster than bows).Catapult should have shorter range than longbow.Catapult is now ultimative killing machine for Generals and for awoiding that I move them up and down, left and right (very boring).Sieging army should be spawned far more from the walls and town centar (why to defend town center when all (most important) action is on the walls) should be erased in towns (when attacker take walls coundown begin and walls should be trigger for winning siege).Is to easy to retreat to center and win the battle. Defending the walls is piontless.Attacking army should be restricted to attack only one side of town.Casttles could have town center in most defended area (city not).This is my first suggestion if I remember more I will post them

**Space Voyager** · August 06, 2007, 07:35 AM

We've had this discussion. Lusted opted against it because it would mean the AI might have very few succesfull city atacks.

IMO it would be best if balista is simply removed from the game or made a non-siege unit. Which may not be possible because they push the damn thing in front of them.

**Turbo** · August 07, 2007, 06:44 PM

I had to drastically increase the ram because the incompentent AI just mills around when it tries to take the walls. This is one of the worst flaws of MTW2. I have held off huge armies with just peasants on the walls once the ram burned. At least now defending against a gate breach is fun.

**Garnier** · August 07, 2007, 07:04 PM

Thats one reason I removed firearrows in my addon. Now the AI equipment doesn't burn. (Nor does the player, but the player knew how to cope with it while the AI didn't).

**jegui** · August 08, 2007, 04:34 AM

Originally Posted by Garnier

Thats one reason I removed firearrows in my addon. Now the AI equipment doesn't burn. (Nor does the player, but the player knew how to cope with it while the AI didn't).

Actually in LTC 3.0 it didn't matter how many fire arrows we threw at them they would not burn at all

I had to sally out with my cavalry to slow down AI siege push... I haven't played a siege yet in 3.1 but I hope that still is the case