Siege Towers

[Ephialtes The Dog]

How do you get siege towers to shoot arrows?

[joerd9]

set the unit operating them to 'fire at will'

[Kratos]

It also has to be a large siegetower, the one you need to assault large or epic stone walls.

[joerd9]

No, it hasn't. Works with all siegetowers.

[Wanted]

do siege towers shoot arrows??

[Vault Dweller]

Ja. Just put the unit equipping them to "Fire at Will" and they will shot at any defenders on the wall. It's handy for culling defenders before you engage, and evens out the pre-battle losses. (When the towers shoot your men)

[movemove]

the qeustions been answered already, but I wanna add that only certain units controlling a siege tower can be set to fire at will for exammple afaik, a peltasts cannot shoot with a tower while hoplites can.

i remember a tower of mine taking out 3/4 of a unit of armoured hoplights

[Vault Dweller]

Ah, are you sure about that? Every unit yet tht I've assigned a tower has been able to do it. And belive me, that range is very wide, as I've had some desparate wars where I've even used peasants.

[movemove]

Maybe something is wrong with my game, Im not sure.
I had a siege tower equipped by peltasts and the fire at will was greyed out.

[Domitius]

The siege towers are effective. When I used 4 of them in a siege (costume battle) I took out about 6-8 units. they were everything from archers to hoplites. Very effective...

[joerd9]

lol. I call that siege tower abuse! Your supposed to take the walls with them, not using them as tanks...

[Emperor Leo]

I didn't even realise seige towers were capable of firing arrows. Could've made my seige battles a little easier if I had known.

[Pius Aeneas]

well now you do.

[General_Zavier]

I hate the super siege towers in BI. With their freaking machine guns, they are damn near impossible to defend against, they always take out 3/4 of your troops before they even get to the walls.

[Severous]

Hi

Here is a siege tower being used as an artillery piece.

WRE had reinforcements arriving to try and save this town. I used one tower to get onto a quiet spot on the walls and the other to shoot up reinforcements.

When firing the tower runs out of ammo quickly. Its the towers ammo..not the unit pushing it. So units that cant normally fire can use this. In my case its a mercenary unit with their own pila. They might use their pila once the tower is out of ammo.

[Selifator]

Lots of things about towers I didn't know yet. More ways to kill yet more enemies!

[Vault Dweller]

Once i had 6 towers and the enemy sallied. I put my heavily armoured troop on the towers and everybody behind. The enemy didn't stand a chance. As soon as the units hit my lines, they routed because of the losses due to my towers.

[billerator]

Those BI towers 'machine guns' are so smegging unrealistic!

[gargarensi]

The Siege towers don't neccesarily fire "arrows" but rather ballistas. Pretty much scorpians mounted on Siege Towers. Let the Bloodshed Begin!

[Vault Dweller]

It's really fair enough that they fire machineguns. 6 archers, say, without any hindernce from return fire, can get of quite a few shots. I love seige towers for Large and Epic stone walls - mounted rockets!