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    Quote Originally Posted by bubleve View Post
    I think I have had too much caffiene today, couldn't seperate what he said

    If you really want to be effective you need to have a good combo of stuff anyway. The main reason to have balista is to increase your range and for NPC towns.
    *shrug* I took the 1vs1 to mean that equal footing for both sides.

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    Why on earth would you care?
    Who is retarded enough to send a wave of naked ballistas at someone?

    Fun note, go to your rally, add 1 unit of every type to both sides, and then give one side 2000 ballistas and the other side 10000 archers and see how they fare.

    Anyway, go play for yourself and let others play the way they want to. I use each and every one of my tens of thousands of ballistae, and they've paid for themselves 100-fold over what any amount of archers would have.

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    Saying dont build Ballista on this forum or dont do this or do that has little weight. Server 1 people would be well within thier bounds to make Ballista. Server 6 people should stick to the hack and slash 50K Archer system untill more people get thier cities defended in some form that actually works.

    Saying dont build Ballistas is misguided at best.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Sisohiv View Post
    Saying dont build Ballista on this forum or dont do this or do that has little weight. Server 1 people would be well within thier bounds to make Ballista. Server 6 people should stick to the hack and slash 50K Archer system untill more people get thier cities defended in some form that actually works.

    Saying dont build Ballistas is misguided at best.
    true that also ballistas aren't made to be used alone whey would anyone send 90k of them at any city without back up?

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    archer are pretty weak...they are quite useless...
    i might try a different approach on this game...

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    what is important here is who is attacking who
    the levels of research(lev10archery lol) is whats gonna give you a major advantage over someone who has a lower level, the hero of course
    effectively using range
    then u take into consideration the troop size
    we all know how to attack with ballistas and have 0 casualties, becasue we know who we are attacking

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    Quote Originally Posted by nate_tureboy View Post
    what is important here is who is attacking who
    the levels of research(lev10archery lol) is whats gonna give you a major advantage over someone who has a lower level, the hero of course
    effectively using range
    then u take into consideration the troop size
    we all know how to attack with ballistas and have 0 casualties, becasue we know who we are attacking

    and if you want to afford it you can attack archers with 60%-65% their number of Cataphracts with 1 archer and 1 cavalry with zero losses if techs and hero are equal

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    Quote Originally Posted by bubleve View Post
    and if you want to afford it you can attack archers with 60%-65% their number of Cataphracts with 1 archer and 1 cavalry with zero losses if techs and hero are equal
    I have always wondered where every one is who knows archers can be easily slaughtered as they are many units favorite target to target.
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    Quote Originally Posted by bubleve View Post
    and if you want to afford it you can attack archers with 60%-65% their number of Cataphracts with 1 archer and 1 cavalry with zero losses if techs and hero are equal
    Cataphracts also cost almost 4 times the upkeep that archers do. That means you would need a 1:4 ratio of cataphracts to archers to be cost effective; your ratio is 3:5. I can build archers and lose over half of them in battle and still be more cost effective than cataphracts.
    Last edited by BBQ_Sauce; 05-22-2009 at 02:09 AM.

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    Er... In a way don't you think you made it a bit of an unfair contest? I mean 10,000 archers v 2000 ballista. Outnumbering much?

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