What are these things???

**Barkhorn1x** · 09-23-2004, 14:51

http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/...07.html?page=5

They look like some kind of super Armored Tower.

I've never seen these before.

Barkhorn.

**Degtyarev14.5** · 09-23-2004, 14:57

That, sir, is a city on the move.

A.

**The_Emperor** · 09-23-2004, 15:10

Carthage is Bankrupt, The bailiffs have moved in and are confiscating buildings...

"Come along Carthage, I got Egypt to do today, bloody shift it!"

**Scipio** · 09-23-2004, 15:12

Rofl yeah I noticed these b4, almost looks like they should be from old screens but the other things in the pic suggest otherwise

**Bob the Insane** · 09-23-2004, 15:27

Armoured Seige Towers???

Did such a thing every exist???

**Nobody You'd Know** · 09-23-2004, 15:35

I don't know if they existed, or if they're better than normal siege towers, but I suspect they are what you would use to assault an epic stone wall - since it's so much higher than a normal stone wall.

**Nelson** · 09-23-2004, 15:39

They look like buildings sailed by accountants.

It's fun to charter an accountant
And sail the wide accountan-cy,
To find, explore the funds offshore
And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.

It can be manly in insurance:
We'll up your premium semiannually.
It's all tax-deductible,
We're fairly incorruptible,
We're sailing on the wide accountan-cy!

Monty Python

**Bob the Insane** · 09-23-2004, 15:45

Originally Posted by Nelson

They look like buildings sailed by accountants.

It's fun to charter an accountant
And sail the wide accountan-cy,
To find, explore the funds offshore
And skirt the shoals of bankruptcy.

It can be manly in insurance:
We'll up your premium semiannually.
It's all tax-deductible,
We're fairly incorruptible,
We're sailing on the wide accountan-cy!

Monty Python

You mean Corporate Raiders??

**Tamur** · 09-23-2004, 16:47

They're called a helepolis. These are slightly post-Alexander monstrosities, loaded with catapults on the lower floors and oxybeles on the upper floors. The largest recorded was something like 30 meters tall (100 feet)! I can't believe they actually got these in the game...

Maybe they're just normal armoured seige towers (i.e. no armaments, just hide covering and a stairway for troops to climb up to the top). That would be VERY cool if they are helepolises.