Towers, Archers, Ballista

[Chaotic Neutral Honk]

I've been playing the game since very very early; but took a big break.

I noticed something last night. You can build towers almost as high as you want. One of the ways I would defend my town were just building super tall towers centrally and placing archers and ballista on top. I noticed I stopped getting a significiant extention to my range after only 9 or 10 wall pieces.

Were archer and ballista range capped in a recent update?

[Kharn]

The max range is capped.

I'm curious...why do people build archers? I haven't found a use for them except to build one or two until I can afford a ballista. After that there seems no purpose to a archer towers as their power is so weak and ballistas have essentially no downsides.

[Chaotic Neutral Honk]

Well shucks. I was afraid of that.

I'm playing on hard and am spread pretty thin on wall and tower coverage. I noticed ballista have a very slow turn around and aiming spreed. I can get more bang for buck with the archer tower because I can have fewer of them covering more ground.

That way while the dragon flys by not stopping the archer tower is able to do some damage. I've watched the ballista tower not be able to make a shot because of the speed and timing.

[sleeper]

Originally posted by Kharny:

The max range is capped.

I'm curious...why do people build archers? I haven't found a use for them except to build one or two until I can afford a ballista. After that there seems no purpose to a archer towers as their power is so weak and ballistas have essentially no downsides.

We should get some sort of more powerful but version of the archer tower. Crossbows maybe?

[pufaxx]

Tested it very, very intensive ...

Don't really know how to upload screenshots on steam, so there's an external link: https://www.bilder-upload.eu/upload/c4c880-1538770179.jpg

Marked tower is 11 units high. Higher than 11 units doesn't improve the range of weaponery any more.

To be honest - Towers too high don't look great anyway.

[War Pig Wizard]

Originally posted by Kharny:

The max range is capped.

I'm curious...why do people build archers? I haven't found a use for them except to build one or two until I can afford a ballista. After that there seems no purpose to a archer towers as their power is so weak and ballistas have essentially no downsides.

In the beta, which should be a patch release soon, archers are now good vs vikings and wolves. The Ballistas are good vs Dragons and the trolls.

I usually build double towers with one of each, that way they support each other. Then I build my towers to have over lapping fields of fire.