Archer Towers are worth it?

[Regicide]

I'm honestly not sure if they're useful at all. Early on they do fine, but in mid and lategame, when Invasions become stronger, it feels like they don't cause any realy damage at all.

Dragons, Ogre and Catapults are the most troublesome and all of them are best handled with Ballista. And for the smaller groupes I go for the fire towers.

So, do you guys use Archer Towers in mid and lategame?

[Mr. Hanky]

oddly, I find that if no archer towers are present at all, ogres break through more often than if I have some archer towers present. They maintain a constant rate of fire and seem to have a broader range of fire.

[Regicide]

Ogre's are really no issue for me, because I give all my Ballistas max range so they attack them from allready far away. And depending on the number of ogres, I send knights to hold them off, so my Ballistas have more time to cause damage before they reach the wall.

(That reminds me that I think the trench which description reads "Able to slow down Ogres" also seems to not affect them pretty much. I once tried with 2 blocks wide trench but the Ogres were moving thro it like it's normal terrain?)

[Shadow Wizard Fluffy Gang]

I use them in late game because they look pretty

[cas1510]

I also can´t really tell but you guys probably use an other playstyle when it´s about defending...like doing walls all around the town and throwing defenses on,right?
I myself handle it with towers through the town with at least 3 blocks for putting a ballista,an archer tower and a bunch of archers on top...so with the archers and archer towers you do the fire rate and the ballista does the damage...but overall...they do something

[OldScout]

I'm not sure what you define as mid to late game, but for me I always try to get the main castle walled in first, then put up a couple small archer and ballista towers. Then I start doubling them up. 1 Archer and 1 balliista side by side. And I start building them higher and higher.

Then, as I progress more into the late game as I view it. I have 3 of them side by side. 2 archer, and 1 ballista.

I also start to nest my defenses. I have the main keep area with walls and moat, inside another wall, with things like food and forestry, with a moat and more triple towers.

Then I start building the far out defenses. Just a block of 3 towers at the far edges of the island to take the enemy under fire as soon as possible. Plus I throw in random walls and moats to slow them down while the towers shoot at them.

I also have everything connected so my archer companies, as well as the swordsmen, can rapidly get anywhere, but the enemy can not get up on the walls.

By the time I get tired of a game, there's no place on the walls that aren't covered by multiple archer towers, and several ballista. Most dragons and vikings die long before they get to even my 2nd level defenses.

This game is surprisingly addictive. The only problem I have with it is why can't we kill viking ships before they land the troops any longer??

[disasterofdaeast]

i usually make towers like 12 tall and 3x3 sprinkled around to get full coverage and will do archers on corners with ballistas in the others

[Regicide]

Originally posted by OldScout:

This game is surprisingly addictive. The only problem I have with it is why can't we kill viking ships before they land the troops any longer??

I haven't tested it, but there is a mod that makes your archers able to fire while they are on a transport boat, so you can use them to attack Vikings while they are on the sea.

[LittleRed Does]

Mid to late game, you focus on expanding your economy and usually your kingdom and it's power, so wolves are easily taken care of my archer towers, and viking foot soldiers, (infantry) are going to be easily wiped out even with one or two, so yes, archer towers are decent for mid to late game, it's great for early game, making it an early defense for really anything. Archer towers really support your defenses since viking foot soldiers could easily get by a balista tower, unless you have multiple balistas.