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    Default Are Trebuchets (Rockfall) worthless?

    In my opinion Trebuchets are worthless. Why? I was recently attacked and the attacker sent 3 waves of warriors to take my trebuchets out. The cheapest troop able to get rid of the supposedly "best", most expensive, fortification? I do realize that the trebuchets "fire", and they have to be rebuilt after only able to fire once. And I also realize that they are the unit with the farthest reach. If you were the mayor of a city like this in real life would you waste your trebuchets on a weak unit like warriors? Hardly. That's what archer towers are for right? Makes no sense at all. I hope somebody reads this and sees the need to change this ridiculous flaw.
    The game says they are great against siege weapons. Why not make them smarter, we get reports about who is coming, why would our trebuchets be left in the dark? Have them fire at ballistas and catapults. Make building these things worth it.
    I'm not crying. I'm not mad that I got defeated, just mad that something that costs so much in resources can be defeated so easily.
    Let me know what you think. Your input would be appreciated.

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    You shouldn't lose the trebechets, one shot per battle is fine but you shouldn't lose them, they are completely worthless because people do exactly what this guy said, they send a 1000 warriors and laugh at you for wasting your time on stupid defenses. Its not even an option, build Archer Towers and be like everyone else or simply stop playing because you will be raped all the time.

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    Archer Towers with 1K Abatis.
    Trebs are junk, Logs are junk, traps are junk.
    Trebs and logs trigger and detonate, waves of warriors void them out.
    traps cost what 5 warriors cost. No, you don't need to feed the traps but by week 2 you are holding an army no city can feed anyway so 50K/hr upkeep on top of the 2 mill defecit won't make that much difference.
    In fact, I doubt Archer Towers provide you with that much dps. 16K archer towers stand alone won't hold out against one wave of Archer/ Ballista. They get added because they remain and the spots are there. It's I expect 1% of the damage a defending city that is well defended needs.

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    traps serve a purpose by forcing the attackers to start at 5k range (which abatis won't do if they aren't using cavalry), and after the recent stealth patch they respawn more than they used to, but still no reason to have more than a few of them.

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    I reckon trebs are quite good. It's just that ur attacker was a tactical player.

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    Trebs aren't worthless, but close. for exactly the reason mentioned, they are hitting infantry units and so can be warrior purged easily. They should be fixed to target only mechanical units, and then they will ROCK once again. get it, ROCK? muwhaha

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    Quote Originally Posted by FurryBrigade View Post
    Trebs aren't worthless, but close. for exactly the reason mentioned, they are hitting infantry units and so can be warrior purged easily. They should be fixed to target only mechanical units, and then they will ROCK once again. get it, ROCK? muwhaha
    and sending mech unit against player is stupid. which makes treb worthless.

    EDIT: well, you could argue it helps defend against 100k ram (if programmed to work only against mech)
    but really if you stack enough treb to actually make any difference against them(ram), you are losing out on AT. now that makes you even weaker.
    Last edited by imnub; 08-17-2009 at 03:20 AM.

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    you know what i love aboot trebs? i send in a couple waves of warriors, they all die...but my hero instantly goes back to my town. by the time the warriors are dead my archer wave hits. after that my cav hits, AND i can send out a couple more cav waves. it's great.

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    I agree, trebuchets are expensive, they take a long time to build and they can easily been taken out ny waves of warriors, the same with traps
    choan85
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    I'm going to hold on to my 4k trebuchet in the hopes a patch in imminent, as far as I've ever heard the warrior spam works to rid single shot wonders of resource consumption.

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