arrows from castles, details please

zlefin · #1 December 28th, 2007, 04:23 PM

i was playing a small little test game on unrelated stuff.
so i attacked one castle, it was firing about 30 arrows/round in castle defense arrows.
another one i attacked later had NO arrows.
i watched over multiple turns. it was the same nation. and i was watching quite carefully. and tehre were no defending archers to confound things.
So what's up with the huge variations? it'd be nice to know the exact details of how many shots you actually get, and what causes it to vary.
the manual only gives a base number, it doesn't explain these kinds of variations.

Meglobob · #2 December 28th, 2007, 05:10 PM

All the archers were on holiday at the first castle.

This explains everything.

Gregstrom · #3 December 28th, 2007, 05:15 PM

Different types of castle perhaps?

Endoperez · #4 December 28th, 2007, 05:37 PM

It could be that the castles were different, and thus had different amount of towers. It seems that the manual doesn't mention the amount of towers each castle has.

Pity.

I think Edi's dom3 files list the number of towers.

Sombre · #5 December 28th, 2007, 10:40 PM

Different types of castle have different firepower. It would be nice if they had an overall firepower rating you could look at alongside defence value. But given that people basically ignore everything other than cost and turns taken to build, it is sort of pointless.

zlefin · #6 December 30th, 2007, 05:15 PM

i couldn't find any suhc info in the domdb stuff. at least not in the forts section.
while it may not be a big deal, it does matter some, so i'd like to know. in particular, if a fort is gonna have a significant number of arrows on defense, i'd make a point of always having a commander to defend it for a few rounds. also, it matters a good deal if your fighting a nation that's bad at taking the choke point of a castle.