Shooting Flaming Arrows at Siege Equipment

[DaciaJC]

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]

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

[DaciaJC]

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

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

[IrishHitman]

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...

[V.T. Marvin]

My observation is that siege equipment catches on fire more easily if hit from a side, rather than directly from the front.

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

From what I've seen, they seem to have a completely random chance for lighting on fire. Sometimes the first volley sets them on fire and sometimes it will take forever. One time, I had my archers firing at a tower while it unloaded its troops and it caught fire at the last moment and burned down just after the last guy jumped onto my wall.

I also agree that hitting on them in the sides seems to be most effective.