Do ballista towers have a minimum range or something?

[Kaboodles]

I just lost a game for the dumbest reason possible.

My kill-team of a dozen veteran snipers got wiped out by a an absurd number of harpies and chubbies near the map edge, which led to a horde breaking into one of my outlying districts. It could have been salvageable, except my ballista tower absolutely refused to target the harpy that was attacking it, shooting the weaker targets instead. So I got to watch that harpy kill the tower, all the surrounding buildings, and eventually the rest of the colony.

[[para]dox]

ballistaes are bugged since last patch - sometimes they work, sometimes they dont
its not the close range thing - they might also not shoot a lonely zombie chewing your wall in half of a ballista range radius
use at least one archer/sniper with one ballista to prevent this
ps similar bug was present in previous patch, but it could be solved by switching nearest/highest priority targets, which is not helping now

[njkkfish]

thats why i have sniper towers next to my ballistas/executors.

[MajesticIX]

Those harpies are a ♥♥♥♥♥. The wall jumping and what not I wouldn't be surprised if they were glitching partially "inside" the tower and it couldn't see it.

Having said that, I think it actually makes sense that these ballistas have a minimum distance. Would be more realistic since you don't typically fire large weapons like cannons at targets adjacent to you. Same would apply to Executors but not Shock Towers. Yup, let's make the game even harder.....hmmm.

Ah well, I can't tell you how many colonies I've lost due to one freaking zombie.

[Kaboodles]

Usually the one freaking zombie moment happens early on in the game. I had already made two and a half housing districts, all with cottages, and I was already starting to crank out Thanatoses.
by the time the death spiral started.

And I had such a great map layout too. Ughhhh

[MajesticIX]

I lost one in 50 day range on Map 4. Spitter shot through a 1 tile wedge between forrest and mountain and dropped a sawmill. Destruction ensued as the map aggr. Yeah, I raged lol

[oFFICERbOb]

Ya ive learned that if looks like an ify spot then dont trust it and also i drag my archers across every forrest ,you will find that theres always at least 1 passage 1 unit wide and every once in awhile it will be hid by the position of the forest and a ridge...