Quote Originally Posted by Celegans View Post
This is wrong. In city battles, the starting distance can be much less than 5000 if no traps, abatis and defensive trebuchet are involved.

The report in OP in this thread supports <5000 assertion - just ignore rants of the OP.

http://bbs.evony.com/showthread.php?t=25439

It is possible that starting distance can be much greater than 5000 if traps, abatis and defensive trebuchet get wall range bonus.

In my opinion, one of the bigger unknown is the contribution of the hero - probably affecting all aspects of the battle including range in some unknown factor with no published cold-hard numbers aside from hero attributes.

Good luck.

I'm not seeing it. I agree that my theory on starting distances is almost certainly wrong, but that post doesn't prove it. The reason the defending archers didn't target the other archers isn't because they started too far away, it's that by my targetting theory, they see the ballistas as a more significant threat.

Is it something else in there you saw? I am interested in seeing contradictions to my theories, theories are useless if they aren't correct, just don't see the one in that post.