battering ram no use?

**Vermouth** · 05-01-2009, 09:31 PM

why my battering ram dont take casualties only my archers did.

i think my battering ram is only at the back of my archers lol

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**Darwin** · 05-01-2009, 09:41 PM

Because your battering rams never even reached their infantry before your archers killed them all.

**Vermouth** · 05-01-2009, 09:51 PM

i see thnx...

who do you think attack my archers there?

lost 2k+ archers

its the trap?
rolling logs?
or their archers tower?

**Darwin** · 05-02-2009, 12:33 AM

Towers and archers didn't do much, it was the traps. You should have brought more pikemen and swordsmen, or if you don't need speed some warriors too. The more unit types you have the more spread out the damage will be, so if you would have lost 20 units and you had 30 archers you would lose 20. If you had 30 archers, 5 swordsmen, 5 pikemen, and 5 warriors though it would kill five of each.

**Vermouth** · 05-02-2009, 03:02 AM

so the traps are the culprit.

thank you darwin you're such a great help. =

i have learned alot

**Seiki** · 05-03-2009, 05:02 AM

so so useless . WTH !

**Sebekiz** · 05-03-2009, 07:00 AM

Originally Posted by Darwin

Towers and archers didn't do much, it was the traps. You should have brought more pikemen and swordsmen, or if you don't need speed some warriors too. The more unit types you have the more spread out the damage will be, so if you would have lost 20 units and you had 30 archers you would lose 20. If you had 30 archers, 5 swordsmen, 5 pikemen, and 5 warriors though it would kill five of each.

Unfortunately, warriors are slower than archers. They will never provide cover to a unit of archers in battle. 5 or 50,000 warriors, the archers still would have walked into the traps before the warriors and instead eatten the traps to shield the warriors!