Shooting Flaming Arrows at Siege Equipment

[DaciaJC]

Sometimes I will focus fire my archers/slingers/skirmishers at the troops behind the ram or siege tower. The delay produced when the enemy moves additional soldiers forward to the equipment to replace those killed by my missiles sometimes results in enough time gained for my towers to set the equipment on fire.

[ldb88]

Sometimes I will focus fire my archers/slingers/skirmishers at the troops behind the ram or siege tower. The delay produced when the enemy moves additional soldiers forward to the equipment to replace those killed by my missiles sometimes results in enough time gained for my towers to set the equipment on fire.

That is a good idea! I had not thought of that.

[Cute Wolf]

Well, I remember I have experience about setting enemy rams on flame whithout archer towers (just use Payai dunai), with woodwn palisade as my only defenses. But sure, towers did the job faster and better...

[Andy1984]

I believe in BI siege equipment catches hardly ever fire, neither from towers nor from archers. So if you do not want to see enemy siege equipment destroyed before it is even used: play with the BI.exe.

About using archers to set towers ablaze: make sure they actually hit the tower. If the tower is too close to the wall, some of your archers may fire to the upper-platform of the tower, where the enemy infantry masses before scaling your walls. If they fire at that area, there's little hope for the towers to burn. If you want to set a tower ablaze that has been positioned close to your wall, you'll need a small angle to hit the towers side (use archers that are not standing close to the tower).