Crossbowmen on the walls

[Triumvere]

Did anyone ever come up with a way to make crossbowmen more effective at defending walls? (A search of the forums suggests not...) Ideally they should be able to shoot through the crenelations, but they don't seem to be able to, so they arc their shoots inefficiently reducing the number of casualties they inflict.


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Edit: OH WOW. I spoke too soon. Just changing the max angle to 30 massively improved performance! I thought the problem was that they douldn't fire DOWN, but actually it was that they chose to fire UP when they didn't need to!


Edit 2: Now, is there anything that can be done for gunners on the walls? I tried the same angle adjustment but it didn't seem to help. Or do they just
fire too slow?

[Gigantus]

They are just slow. Their best feature is the scare, not the punch.

[MAG]

@ Triumvere

Hi, did you finally get a satisfying results with crossbowmen/gunpowder units on the wall?

[AnthoniusII]

Yes both crossbowmen and javelin men require a spesial use on walls.
They both have to aim in a more or less straight line of "fire".
Both must use their weapons near maximum range.
That means that crossbowmen always must aim enemy units that are in some distance from walls.
Javelinmen also!
See this picture for javelinmen.


Now the same area for crossbowmen is in bigger distance from the walls.
Crossbowmen are a very usefull unit if you combine them with other units.
Aim always distand enemy troops!

[MAG]

@AnthoniusII

Thanks for advices. On your picture it looks like only the cavalry which probably just stood for too long in front of the walls got some damage. With such missile units as javelinmen or crossbowmen the assaulting troops should have sustained much more damage before and under the walls as these kinds of weapons allow to shoot strait downwards. I was curioused if anyone succeeded getting such properties of projectiles in M2TW:-)