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Comparing to militia:
Militia: Die easily by arrows, so even if they charge the towers, most will be dead b4 getting to the building and wasting the rocks. Charge makes some rocks miss. Extremely cheap to make.

Ram: Hardly suffer damage at all from arrows. Two rocks from towers, ram is dead (so in that sense is similar to militia, because militia will make the rocks miss while ram has defense against them). Very Expensive to make.

Wait a second, kridge wrote three rocks, ram is dead:

Ram is able to survive 2 stones from the towers (because of the hides, no specialty).

Yes. You saw that correctly.

i saw this picture of a tower from the alpha version (the right one)



the idea was to take 2 bowmans on the top. But it was canceled.

this would be a nice feature for the remake, i think.

The idea was to take 2 bowmans on the top [of the tower]. But it was canceled.

this would be a nice feature for the remake, i think.

i have the impression something like this was already discussed... i don't remember the outcome though :x

Archers on a hill get slightly longer range (calculated from height of archer tile relative to target tile)

Source: http://code.google.com/p/castlesand/sou ... uglist.txt

Hah! I'm a fan of that tower. It's realistic and looks nice too.

Just some minor questions/concerns:

-How do the archers enter the tower? Automatically, just like recruits go to the barracks, or do we select and command them ourselves?
-Only archers, or also Crossbowmen/Slingers?
-How are the archers going to be fed? Can we command them to come out of the tower, or do serfs go inside the tower and when they come out the units are fed?


Curious to see what Lewin thinks of this tower

I disagree, 3archers or crossbowmen in a tower isn't that OP, but it makes the game more defensive.
So, I think it is a good idea, but lets not have it any time soon. Lets first find out how best to counter a good tower defense.

Pros and cons for the tower discussion :
-cons :
I think it's against the kam style, because the military units are completely different of the citizens, how would the archers/crossbowmen be fed ? Should they go to the inn (a military unit ? no !) or be fed like normal military units ? (strange too).
It's already hard to kill towers, but with an archer/crossbowman with increased range on top of it ? Let's imagine, you would have to kill towers with a looot of archers, and most of them will die because of the great range of the tower. Being able to kill the archers on top of the tower while the tower is still alive would be ridiculous too, let's see how you want to balance that
-pros :
But ! It'd be quite realistic too. (more than recruits throwing rocks :p)
Maybe the use of a new citizen unit, the "town defender", that'd be totally strange too.

-> As it is now, I think it's a bad idea.