Can someone tell me the differences between castles???

[iceboy]

Why would you pick one over the other??? Advantages/Disadvantages??? Why would you pick a mountain citadel over a dark citadel when they are exactly the same but a dark citadel is cheaper? How are they different?

[Torvak]

For the looks and one comes with a laundry service.

But seriously, they aren't exactly the same. Have you looked at the stats?

[archaeolept]

Also, there are differences even beyond the stats, having to do w/ how they are set up for defense and what degree of defensive archery fire they have - ie. how good they are when defending against an opponent storming your castle.

[Taqwus]

A Dark Citadel has no towers, whereas a Mountain Citadel has quite a few if memory serves. The entrance layouts also differ somewhat.
Towers are unkillable, and keep firing as long as a single defender remains.

[iceboy]

Originally posted by Torvak:
For the looks and one comes with a laundry service.

But seriously, they aren't exactly the same. Have you looked at the stats?

Yes the dark citadel is cheaper and takes less time to build and has more administration. But otherwise everthing else is the same. So why would I pick a mountain citadel if I get so much more for so much less with a dark citadel???

[st.patrik]

Like Taqwus said - there are a lot of towers which fire at your enemies on the mountain citadel, and they have to run through a long narrow passageway flanked by towers at point-blank range. The dark citadel doesn't have any towers and just a simple opening - no corridor of death approach.

So there is a huge difference, if you actually use your castle ever for defense. If you're facing a nation like Ulm in a mountain citadel and you have access to spells like 'sleep cloud' or 'poison cloud' or pretty much any cloud you can hold them for a long long time by choking up the passageway with these 'clouds' and watching them take their effect. The best part is, as soon as the people in front of them die, the others in the opposing army will run straight into the poisonous clouds and die themselves. Caution, castle defenders not included.