Is There A Way To Control Cannon Towers?

**Rozanov** · 04-13-2007, 10:40

As ballista vs cannon towers.

Both can be effective but in different circumstances.

eg If you have cannon towers (well for those of us who haven't fixed bug, I'd better say towers that fire cannon balls) they can be devastating if you sally forth - they can hit targets further away than ballistas and do more damage. (I say sally forth - I usually go and make a cup of tea and wait for the cannons to demolish 40-50% of the enemy army so it runs away.)

Whereas ballistas seem to do a better job at siege equipment that is approaching and at close range.

**zstajerski** · 04-13-2007, 12:19

I have a slightly different tactic, as soon as they besige my city I attack out, but, I only come out with my generakl so that the door opens... And just wait for my canon towers to take them out, i put it on 3x speed so i smoke my joint and by the time the battle si over, they loose always more than half of their numbers..
It gives a draw, but you have erased half of their numbers without loosing 1 unit yourself

**Shahed** · 04-13-2007, 15:20

Originally Posted by Rozanov

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....eg If you have cannon towers (well for those of us who haven't fixed bug,.....

How do you fix that bug ?

**Rozanov** · 04-13-2007, 16:06

Fixing the cannon / ballista problem - I was going to point in the general direction of the link that Durallan has in his sig line.

Only when I tried it there was nothing there.

(Will go away and see if I can find another fix for the bug)

**Bobo** · 04-13-2007, 17:29

It would indeed be nice if you could select the target or choose whether to use flaming ammo. Is that on the 1.3 Wishlist already?

**HRE_HeinrichV** · 04-14-2007, 03:00

I dont think the AI has ever attempted to assault one of my cities. under seige a few times, but i fight them off before they have a chance.

**Shahed** · 04-17-2007, 00:22

Originally Posted by Rozanov

Fixing the cannon / ballista problem - I was going to point in the general direction of the link that Durallan has in his sig line.

Only when I tried it there was nothing there.

(Will go away and see if I can find another fix for the bug)

I found it !

Check here:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...at&id=7&page=3

For some reason I can't load the site right now, so I can't give a direct link, but it's there in that downloads section (along with many other fixes and improvements uncluding highways).

edit: found direct link in durallan's signature:

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downl...do=file&id=973

**Rozanov** · 04-17-2007, 14:36

re the link to the ballista / cannon bug fix.

If I follow the link in the sig i get:

Ogre's Network WRONG PAGE

in big letters.

Problem is this board edits the link so it doesn't work.

Try here instead:

"http://www.twcenter.net/forums/downloads.php?do=file&id=973"

(remove the quotation marks and paste into browser.)