Horses can WALK through stakes....

[warblah]

Plus siege equipment(Anything with wheels) can crash the stakes and make them useless...

Also stakes will be ineffective after many kills.

[misfitsfiend138]

as in wooden stakes? where do u get those?

[jimbob]

as in wooden stakes? where do u get those?

Certain archers can use them. You place them when you're deploying your army.

Thats really dissapointing to hear. Despite many tries, I've never managed to coax the enemy cavalry into charging them

[the_mango55]

ok

Why wouldn't they be able to?

[lawngnome]

Plus siege equipment(Anything with wheels) can crash the stakes and make them useless...

Also stakes will be ineffective after many kills.

Ah, so you mean just like in real medieval combat? Good to know.

Stakes are available as a defensive measure to Longbowmen and Jannissary Archers. They are for protecting against cavalry charges, and work perfectly in that capacity. Don't expect to form an impromptu Magniot Line out of them, for crying out loud.

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I just noticed that if you move siege equipment through stakes, like the original poster mentions, that the stakes disappear. Don't know if this is quite a bug or a "feature", but it could be handy to know.

[Wurfspiess]

I just noticed that if you move siege equipment through stakes, like the original poster mentions, that the stakes disappear. Don't know if this is quite a bug or a "feature", but it could be handy to know.

Uhm do you fear that the AI charges your archers with Trebuchets?

[legend101]

has anyone seen AI use stakes?

[Fondor_Yards]

Uhm do you fear that the AI charges your archers with Trebuchets?

No but an elephant charge is quite real, and elephants and blow through them and remove the stakes like seige equipment.

[mercja]

Ah, so you mean just like in real medieval combat? Good to know.

Stakes are available as a defensive measure to Longbowmen and Jannissary Archers. They are for protecting against cavalry charges, and work perfectly in that capacity. Don't expect to form an impromptu Magniot Line out of them, for crying out loud.

You wanna place a bet on how many people have already tried. lol

[Red Paladin]

cavalry's biggest advantage is their charge anyway, without it they are nothing more than overpriced (and low defense) heavy infantry.

[shadyrome]

if u walk thru stake its fine.. but if u run into it it dies.. i tested it. seems perfect to me?

[Dckw]

I killed some of my calvary by accident this way.

[LoudHoward]

Why aren't my stakes mowing horses down from 1000 yards like a machine gun *cries*

They seem perfect to me.

[OG Grenadier]

Why aren't my stakes mowing horses down from 1000 yards like a machine gun *cries*

They seem perfect to me.

Nothing half a dozen monster tribualts wouldn't fix..

[Lionel-Richie]

You mean horses don't slowly impale themselves on pointy stakes that they see? :O

[a8686]

Use them in sieges, right in front of gates... Stops those pesky cavalry from overrunning you...
Cheap... But effective against mongols

[monkian]

I manged to kill 17 of General's body gurad on my OWN stakes

[munrock]

Use them in sieges, right in front of gates... Stops those pesky cavalry from overrunning you...
Cheap... But effective against mongols

You can deploy stakes in siege battles? when you're attacking you can't, and when you're on a paved surface you can't so I'm pretty sure you can't do it in defense.

They work on bridge ends though, and that seems to be the only place where hte AI is dumb enough to charge into them.

Why the hell would anyone want to roll their siege equipment over stakes? You might as well attack with the siege equipment... It's like using a sniper to take out a mark's bodyguards so that the guy with the knife can stab him, even though the sniper has a clear shot on the mark.

[Elmar]

The stakes are indeed only there to slow you down, you'd be foolish to rush through them. Not that I haven't killed off plenty of cavalry during the mopping up phase by having an unattended cavalry unit chase down routers through them. Ouch!