Shooting Flaming Arrows at Siege Equipment

**Cute Wolf** · 08-17-2009, 15:57

BI did could burn siege equipments with arrows!

Bet you using/against simple toxotai / skudjanz / sotaroas.... that have crappy missiles anyway....

**antisocialmunky** · 08-17-2009, 16:05

Does anyone else hate it when the ram burns instead of the towers since boiling oil makes defending so hilarious?

**Cute Wolf** · 08-17-2009, 16:10

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

Does anyone else hate it when the ram burns instead of the towers since boiling oil makes defending so hilarious?

Never use ram against stone walls and up..... time to let your peasants dig instead!

Well, actually siege towers are best manned with gaesatae / tidanotae.... try to get their service.... it really worth! (Maybe some other kind of elites works as well)

**DaciaJC** · 08-17-2009, 16:16

Nah, I prefer to have the rams destroyed instead of the towers. It's a pain to reallocate the majority of my forces from the walls to defend the now-destroyed gate because the enemy decided to drop whatever they were carrying/pushing (ladders, towers) and rush over to the gate where they can wait to be roasted by boiling oil... which, I suppose, is somewhat funny in a sense.

**antisocialmunky** · 08-17-2009, 16:53

Phalanxes aren't effective on walls though. :-D

**DaciaJC** · 08-17-2009, 17:13

Originally Posted by antisocialmunky

Phalanxes aren't effective on walls though. :-D

Which is why I prefer to fight them on walls and not at the gates.

**IrishHitman** · 08-18-2009, 03:24

No one here ever set Epirote Elephants on fire?

I'll tell you a story lads.
Epirus seemed set on taking Athens from me.
They didn't bother their arse with siege equipment and just sent in elephants...

What they didn't count on was the bloody boiling oil that cooked the elephants alive one by one as they lined up to the gate.... Ironically, had I autoresolved, I would have lost...