The larger siege towers have absolutely fantastic firepower, and can blow away major units on the walls with incredible effectiveness and speed. I wish I could build them for all any any battle, they are that good. I wish I could use them on the defense, too. ;)
I managed to kill the enemy general with my siege tower fire when I was sieging large stone walls (forgot which city, probably one of Carthaginian)
Enemy general was at the town square and I was amazed at the fire range of my siege tower (and power too.)
Good money sink when you've got loads of money and not much else left to build.
It began on seven hills - an EB 1.1 Romani AAR with historical house-rules (now ceased)
Heirs to Lysimachos - an EB 1.1 Epeiros-as-Pergamon AAR with semi-historical houserules (now ceased)
Philetairos' Gift - a second EB 1.1 Epeiros-as-Pergamon AAR
I rarely build large stone walls anywhere save occasionally at my capital, mainly because I find them ugly and it would be a shame to overlap those great EB oppida-ish city-walls found in celtic and iberian settlements and I also prefer sieges with both ladders and towers.
Build great stone walls for roleplay reasons in your capital for example or very important cities.
Yes small siege towers do have ballistae too. Funny that it took me years of RTW and EB gaming without even noticing until I read about it on the forum...
I don't think the siege towers are overpowered. Indeed siege towers were extremely sophisticated works of the best engineers of their era, with multiple "calibres" of ballistae attached to various levels and a giant wheel driven by oxen inside the basement which propelled the whole tower over some kind of gear.
Quid ais, homo levior quam pluma, pessime et neqissime, flagitium hominis, subdole ac minime preti?
-Plautus, Menaechmi
Alexandros Syriakos in WOTB
I also have been terrorized by the large siege towers. I was defending on the walls and this thing absolutely decimated all my troops up there before I could even get them out of the way. It's like a machine gun ballista, it's crazy.
Perhaps unrelated, one of my more embarrassing losses was while defending large stone walls. The AI was building sap points, so I placed all my units at the place where I thought the holes in the wall would be. The problem arose when the sappers brought down the walls, instantly flattening all of my troops who were standing too close to the falling debris i guess. I had no idea what happened at first, and then i saw the funny looking piles of bodies![]()
Last edited by Grriffon; 09-21-2008 at 14:01.
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