Amazed by seige tower

**Besieger** · 01-02-2005, 06:29

Hi all....Happy New Year!!!! A couple of days ago while i'm still playing germania attacking the roman pennisulla....i am suprised by a sight when i seiged the epic stone wall of the roman city with a strange looking and larger seige tower

....that is the first time i saw e tower and wat amazed me is that when e tower start approaching e wall which is defend with lotsa enemies....IT suddenly start SHOOTING MISSILES

at the defenders and almost all of them was killed before i could land any troops on the wall.....am i the onli few who experience this or are there anyone too seen it bfore....pls feel free to share any info u know abt e seige tower with us....thanx alot!!!

**IrishMike** · 01-02-2005, 07:24

Yup, those towers appear with the epic walls, because the walls are so big. I guess activision thought people might need a extra hand to beat an epic wall so they added the balista part to it. Kinda handy against the walls if you ask me.

**Mikemyers64** · 01-02-2005, 10:17

all of the siege towers have missles. just the bigger ones have ballistas. its fun to sit in front of the wall and let them use all their ammo before you assault the walls

**KiOwA** · 01-02-2005, 15:24

It's funny that the arrow towers don't use flaming arrows to burn up the siege towers, which they definitely should. This would force the siege towers to close the distance ASAP instead of just standing off and sniping the defenders, which is totally unrealistic IMHO.

**Shahed** · 01-02-2005, 16:06

I had an online multiplayer battle just for fun. My host, chose the Rome map. I took some Heavy OWNagers and used flaming missiles on the huge towers. Once on fire they start to crumble and people are falling out of the sides. It's really well done, they look far better when on fire :D .. and eventually they collapse. Eye Candy FX Extraordinaire !.

Just in case you are wondering the FPS was not that bad for two full armies and buildings aflame, battling it out in Rome.

**Akka** · 01-02-2005, 19:10

It's one of the problem I have with the game. Siege towers shouldn't be upgraded automatically to fit the wall, especially with something as powerful as the machinegun-ballista. It makes epic wall harder to defend than plain stone wall

There should be three kinds of towers that you can choose to build, whatever the wall.