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ulaw
whats the best way to kill ballista towers late game? they have same range as id fire from flat ground and outrange archers. plus ballista towers with king of the mountain kill most dragon units in 3 hits, archers in 2 and geishas in 1. they also cost only 50rice and rebuild fast. whats the deal! one ballista tower is better than arrah tower! try killing 4 of those suckas. im talking about the map freedom where there is no high ground cept in the corners, and that always gets covered by towers anyway.

 

Nevaul
Well, if your talking strictly any unit, Samurai with the Dragon Skin upgrade will be able to do the trick. While thier DS BG is in effect, they won't take any damage from the shots fired from the Wolf Balista unit in the tower. While this will work strictly against towers alone with very little problems, your units will soon be attacked by the wolf units on the ground while their attacking the wolf tower as well, but that's a different matter all together really.
ulaw
druids deactivate the dragon skin when they hit ur sams, plus dragon skin doesnt last long enough when the sams running at a tower.... especialy not to kill more than 1

ulaw
i think the answer may be chemists with starburst and dmg upgrade with dragon skin sams in front.

5 chemists can kill 3 towers ez. havent seen how they do vs ballistas tho

link0
I would use hit and run fire arrows. Fire one volley, get out, rinse, repeat. It's far safer than engaging with melee units.

Chronark
I think using 4-5 dragon warriors with flame sword might work.


CraiG
fire arrows works for me ...hit and run...but kinda difficult


blo0d angel
just build a tower just outside of their towers range and put arah in it and then back her up with pk cannoneers with indirect fire and just smash his whole base from afar untill he comes 2 you then attack him with your main army

w00t!

Bob the Sage
Aye, inderect fire is the way to go.

Tallyho!

Pin
indirect fire is a good idea.
But ulaw tried this exact strategy on me in 1v1 @ freedom. I think the best way to deal with offensive towers is to just ignore them. If the towers are outside your base, then they aren't back at his. I ran around his towers and nailed his base.

 

Braver
Well, since Ballistamen take a mighty long time to load his arrows, you just rush at the tower. He might nail you once or twice with the tower charge, but just crowd around the tower and destroy it.

 

ulaw
braver, you obviously have never seen 3 ballsita towers with king of the mountain upgrade, they kill ur guys in 1-2 hits and have good accuracy.



Pin
well said mystic
Clueful
quote:

i think the answer may be chemists with starburst and dmg upgrade with dragon skin sams in front.

5 chemists can kill 3 towers ez. havent seen how they do vs ballistas tho


I think this is maybe the best answer. Chemists have good resistance to the ballistamen's piercing attack, and with their rocket BG they can take down watchtowers like almost nobody. One volley from a half dozen will knock it right down I think.

Mystic
Sam with dragon skin 4-5 tiles into tower range( only need 1 ) or DW with chi shield. Since he can't choose which units to target, it will only attack the sam/dw. Then come in with fire archers, fire one volley at each tower. Then better get ready to attack, because at 50 rice it costs nothing to rebuild the towers. I think thats probably the best option, anything else will get tower stuned. Btw, the towers being unable to fire on a unit directly below it is not a weakness you can exploit. 4 towers will continually fire at something as they cover each other, not only that but all the ground units will rape you when your stunned by tower. Some people seem to think attacking towers with melee is an option, well its not.
ulaw
thnx mystic, thats an excelent idea.


 

Mystic
You should see towers on a hill with all the upgrades, sometimes it will take out a full health archer in 1 shot thats just SICK!!
Rohdri_Eagle
Myself, I play on maps where this is not an option. If it's a 1v1, I only build two towers. I never need more.

 

GLENN_3E
balistas are GOOD

That ORC is gonna need a witch doctor, to surgically remove my foot from his arse

Braver
So sorry, I have done this mistake a lot of time, I was assuming you guys were talking about a single tower.

Damn, next time I should read more carefully before answering.

Anyway, I think Dragon Skin is the answer, or if you have 20 yangs, Yang Blade is it, no kidding, I have tried it, I destroyed a keep with 6 Samurai in less than 8 seconds with Yang Blade.

 

blo0d angel
hey Pin he let you run around his towers ? on freedom he should be able to see the whole corridor. The main reason I use the indirect fire\arah in tower tactic is to either kill his towers or lure him away from them because your chances of winning a battle are increased tenfold when it takes place infront of your towers. Also I never risk bringing him charging at me unless I am confident my army can beat his so I would have engaged you with my army when you tried to run by then killed it and proceeded to bombard your base once more