Cannon towers not working.

**Lord Golog** · June 25, 2012, 07:19 PM

Just played a siege with Averland where my Large City had Cannon Towers built in it. When the battle started, the towers fired once and then were silent for the entire battle. Despite having plenty of units nearby to establish control on them, they would not fire on the invading orc army. Any other people having this problem?

**The Despondent Mind** · June 26, 2012, 08:03 AM

Learn English .

**Lord Golog** · June 26, 2012, 02:55 PM

I take it that cannon towers have a minimum range that is very large, and as such the vast majority of siege combat occurs well within that minimum range? In that case, I shall stick with ballista towers. Thank you for the answers.

**smoesville** · June 26, 2012, 03:12 PM

Originally Posted by Lord Golog

Oh I'm so sorry. Please enlighten me as to how I have butchered the language of English. Surely such a great scholar as yourself will have innumerable tidbits of knowledge to share with a stupid yokel such as myself.

A Mod obviously deleted the post before you saw this, there was an Italian post between his and yours.

To everyone else, I take it that cannon towers have a minimum range that is very large, and as such the vast majority of siege combat occurs well within that minimum range? In that case, I shall stick with ballista towers. Thank you for the answers.

I have to admit that i haven't seen the cannon towers fire alot, but then i only started playing recently and only one of my Holds has cannon tower.

**Werebear** · June 27, 2012, 03:32 PM

Originally Posted by smoesville

I have to admit that i haven't seen the cannon towers fire alot

it fire with speed of great cannon and have minimum range

**Son of Mars** · June 27, 2012, 09:51 AM

Originally Posted by Uber Mind

Learn English .

Someone ought to remove this, I thought he was insulting the thread starter, whose English is perfectly fine, for a good 5 minutes before I read further and I was very confused.

**smoesville** · June 26, 2012, 08:25 AM

I think he said the towers can't fire below a minimum range. Though there's usually quite a distance from where they deploy and the wall.

**Lazy** · June 26, 2012, 10:09 AM

Do not build them... they only bring problems!

Have you ever seens these towers fire at enemies fighting your own units? Like on walls or inside the city?
Someday you will see half of your own army beeing killed by them... or your king while trampling down routing bastards!

Stick to ballista towers exept you follow the "sally out tactic"!
When the battle starts the enemy usually stands withing the towers range and sometimes it stays there => AI camps quite often within the towers shooting range for like 20 minutes... but thats a bit of an exploit as the AI is just stupid!
You can even "pull" them with catapults and run back into the city when they are coming for you ( of course with ALL their units )

**Ayamo** · June 26, 2012, 10:23 AM

I disagree. Especially when playing "gamey", you can use cannon towers to lure AI towards the wall with a single cavalry unit while your cannon towers obliterate them.

**Lazy** · June 26, 2012, 10:30 AM

Originally Posted by Ayamo

I disagree. [...] lure AI towards the wall [...] your cannon towers obliterate them.

Originally Posted by Lazy

...exept you follow the "sally out tactic"!
[...] You can even "pull" them [...]

What exactly are you disgreeing with ?

You just repeated the exeption... the only difference is cavalry/artillery...

And I am sure you are not moving your cannon towers to lure the enemy... but I understand what you mean