Siege Weapons

[Ibrahim]

Does anyone ever use them?

I'm playing my first campaign where I'm trying out the arrow catapults, but so far it seems that these visually cool weapons simply don't kill enough to justify their huge upkeep costs.

Although there was one exception - during a bridge battle placing the catapult directly in front of the bridge and having the lowliest skirmishers flanking both sides made for the most hilarious slaughter of the AI I've ever seen...

But in general, I find they'll rarely kill more than 100 units per battle, which is alright, but not really worth the thousands of mnai I'm paying to keep them.

I only mostly use them for sieges; when I have money that is, and typically only for the duration of a war. I tend to have two stacks on campaign in that event: a full "fieldstack", with the main units, and a siege train stack, with a couple of different types of catapults, of course guarded by a detachment of cavalry.

beyond sieges, I never found that much use for them-except in moments of desperation, such as against elephants or something. for them to truly be useful, I'd ideally need them to be more mobile, able to go along with even cavalry. maybe a small catapult on a cart or something