These two things combined make it very hard to get into the city proper without massive losses even if you cheese the gates by having your hero destroy them without taking any damage. Second of all, ranged units *on* walls are super deadly and they have help from the towers which are also super deadly on top of that. They do almost 0 damage to units on and behind walls, so massing ranged units is a bad idea in general. First of all, archers/slingers/javelins are basically useless. Sieges are actually very hard in Troy for numerous reasons. The biggest issue is that you can't destroy walls ever, even in myth mode with the literal power of the gods helping you out. The walled sieges are still technically the worst part of the game, but they are not nearly as cancer as in WH. I can only speak of the sieges in Troy as I haven't played the others, but they are much better than in any WH iteration. That said, I think settlement defenses can be really fun. Cramped settlements make spamming archers and magic 10x stronger in a game where they are already the dominant strategy and melee fighting is disadvantaged. Several races either can't fight towers at all, need high tier units to fight them, or need units that are otherwise pretty much useless for any other battle circumstance.Ĩ.

Even if you want to kill towers, they are free for the enemy to respawn eventually while your ammo is limited.ħ. Funny enough the best way to take them out becomes rushing under them and shooting with archers, because they have the DPS and don't really miss.Ħ. Even if your artillery has a good angle, artillery sucks because it misses and doesn't actually do much damage to take it out quickly. Settlement obstructions prevent tons of race's artillery from shooting them in their weird spots (they of course can arc fire over obstructions to hit you). Towers have way too much range and damage, able to take apart units halfway across the map from them with arcing shows that go over buildings.Ĥ. Way too many of them you have to fight if you don't have an army that can autoresolve them easilyĢ.

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