Vicarius Provinciae
Siege equipment
CAN SOMEONE PLEASE HELP? I REALLY NEED TO DEFEND JERUSALEM!
I dunno if it's a bug or not, but I am defending a city, the enemy is coming with a ladder, a tower and a ram. I have 6 archer units on the walls, some of them with golden chevrons. All of my achers are concentrating their fire missiles on one siege equipment, but they can't set it on fire.
But why??? How many archers do I have to have to burn a tower or a ram? 10+?
Last edited by Aldgarkalaughskel; April 23, 2008 at 11:54 AM.
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Senator
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
it's random, your archers can't set them on fire, only your towers...
Vicarius Provinciae
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
Originally Posted by Nick_Since_1985
I tried about 4-5 times and they always fail. This is madness!
Senator
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
Madness? THIS IS STAINLESS STEEL!
But seriously, I think only the city's towers can set them on fire, or atleast it's very very hard for the archers to do so, which is why it annoys me that they always engage the siege equipment even though I order them to fire at the ones using it.
Artifex
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
PowerWizard
Archers cannot indeed set fire to seige equipment, because well they could not in history, you needed seige like equipent on the walls (oh to be able to do that in the game). As such it is your city defenses which destroy the tower, not your archers.
Personally I play with towers doing a bit more damage, but thats becuase I want seiges to be more deadly. Remember if you do it to them, they do it to you.
To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer.
Paul Ehrlich
Semisalis
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
Is this correct?
Senator
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
It is correct, only city/castle towers or other siege equipment can set siege equipment on fire...
Civis
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
Funny thing about those people back then they put wet hides on the top of rams, and wet hides on siege towers. The defending towers where made to try an stop the siege engines,
Ordinarius
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
Only your towers can set siege weapons on fire. Thank CA for that not SS
Ducenarius
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
Quark: How can u alter tower dmg? And how much did you change it?
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Civis
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
I used to have archers light siege towers on fire, but even then that had a low chance of occurring. I do believe you can still light their rams on fire with fire arrows. Either way, ballista towers+ are much more reliable in destroying siege equipment than your archers. I would just have your archers focus-fire on the most dangerous unit your foe is throwing at you.
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
Anytime I target siege equip with archers, they attack the unit pushing the ram or tower, not attacking the tower directly. But if i just set FAW, they attack the towers. :hmmm:
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
You can upgrade your towers so they will throw rocks at the siege equipment, that works really well for me.
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
Has anyone had success with Trebs destroying seige towers?
Protector Domesticus
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
I'm assuming they'll be much too inaccurate to do any good, but I'm not sure. If you're REALLY desperate, it could be concievable to make the wall they're trying to get on down to low HP - not knocked down so they can get through, but they can't go on it. If you have good timing, you might even take out a good number of their troops.
SS Forum Moderator
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
Archers cannot set siege towers on fire? Is this a new development in SS?
Miles
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
Well NOW you tell me my arhcers can't!
Well, hey I know it and the AI doesn't!
Civitate
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
Ya, when assaulting a city, the AI always concentrates with fire arrows on my towers first, unanimously. I always thought it helped catch it on fire. I guess i'm wrong. Has someone confirmed this with multiples tests minimizing the damage towers do?
Biarchus
Re: 6 archer units can't set siege equipment on fire???
LOL and all this time I tought my archer were helping, you can get archers to target specifically the equipment, and they do set it on fire, sally out once nd when the enemy retreats fire on the equipment, takes along time though, I did it once but that was older versions
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