How to "arm" your towers

**gardibolt** · 01-10-2007, 19:15

I posted 'yes' because although I knew you had to have troops by the towers, I thought they had to be up on the walls. If they can man the tower by being down on the ground, which is much safer, that's certainly useful information.

**Kraggenmor** · 01-10-2007, 19:41

Originally Posted by gardibolt

I posted 'yes' because although I knew you had to have troops by the towers, I thought they had to be up on the walls. If they can man the tower by being down on the ground, which is much safer, that's certainly useful information.

He's referring specifically to Ballista towers and Ballista crews. To man a Ballista tower you have to park your ballista and it's crew on the ground next to the tower.

**Elmar Bijlsma** · 01-10-2007, 19:49

Originally Posted by Kraggenmor

He's referring specifically to Ballista towers and Ballista crews. To man a Ballista tower you have to park your ballista and it's crew on the ground next to the tower.

Okay, who broke the wrong-o-meter?

**Kraggenmor** · 01-10-2007, 19:52

Originally Posted by Elmar Bijlsma

Okay, who broke the wrong-o-meter?

Care to be more specific?

**Chosun** · 01-10-2007, 20:21

Originally Posted by Kraggenmor

Care to be more specific?

What happens if you do not park your ballista crew next to a ballista tower? What if only peasants are manning the ballista tower? does it not work?
I think the question is, does the ballista crew add anything additional to a functioning ballista tower?

**Kraggenmor** · 01-10-2007, 20:28

Originally Posted by Chosun

What happens if you do not park your ballista crew next to a ballista tower? I think the question is, does the ballista crew add anything additional to a functioning ballista tower?

Then the Ballista cannot draw a line of site to the enemy and cannot fire on them.

If you man your Ballista tower with a ballista and it's crew, then your ballista may fire on the troops outside your walls.

I don't think you get arrow fire from a tower if you don't have missile units manning it but, I don't know that for a fact.

**Elmar Bijlsma** · 01-10-2007, 20:56

Kraggenmoor, your towers will fire regardless of who is nearby. The projectile fired by a tower is entirely dependent on what type of tower you built in that city/castle. There isn't any LOS issue either, on the walls or behind them, the towers fire isn't influenced in any way.

**zulukiller** · 01-10-2007, 21:42

Originally Posted by gardibolt

I posted 'yes' because although I knew you had to have troops by the towers, I thought they had to be up on the walls. If they can man the tower by being down on the ground, which is much safer, that's certainly useful information.

Heres a good tactick for deffending citadels have your cavlary stand next to the towers on the first ring and pull all your men back to the second ring and man those walls. When it looks like your front walls are gone pull your cavalry back to the second ring fast when the enemy gets near that way you get the maximum amount of casualties to the enemy from your towers without loseing a single man. Doing that even with a small garison against a full stack of mongals ive never lost the second wall and wiped out there entire army on a VH/VH campaign.

You can do the same sort of thing for cities aswell use the cavalry to man the towers and then use pike/halbred/spearmen to block the main street directly facing the gate near the city square with archers/crossbowmen just to there rear. The towers will do maximum damage this way without any loses and you get plenty of time to setup your spearwall & schiltroms to grind the enemy down in the main street.