BUG - Bombard towers do 1 damage to trebuchets

[Daniil]

Yeah yeah, title says it all. Played a practice/warmup match with my friend. Was playing Byzantines and I think it was a Briton or a Turk trebuchet that came and unpacked in my bombard tower range. I was stunned to see that my bombard did only 1 damage, it MUST be faulty parameter of sorts, because it didn't happen in the original AOE2.

Thanks in advance,
Daniil

[ジャン・デュクルー]

I'm guessing you played the original AOE2 and expansion without patches? The 1.0b (not even the latest official AOE2 patch) changed the bombard tower so it only does 1 damage to rams and trebuchets, who have tons and tons of pierce armour, yet were so easily defeated by a lone bombard tower. One can assume that AOE2 HD reflects AOE2 original with the latest patches, including the one that eliminated the bombard tower's impermeability.

Long story short, the bug was when bombard towers were doing MORE than one damage to unpacked trebuchets; Microsoft fixed this roughly 13 years ago.

[andrew_berge]

Wait, i must have misread that last comment. Are you saying it's normal that a bombard tower would have to hit a trebuchet 150 times to destroy it?

[Daniil]

@Fagasaurus
I guess you forgot to update it to 1.0c then, because I didn't have such an issue in that version.

[cncgnxcg]

This is not a bug. Bombard towers deal 1 damage to trebuchets in the original AoC as well.

[Daniil]

I'll have to dig up my original to check it, then.

[Loukfour]

Yeah, it's definitely a bug, same for the siege rams, which are now impossible to destroy with a bombard tower.