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Stephen Lai (sl...@lrc.med.uwo.ca) wrote:
> I find them quite useless, because as they fire, the enemy units are moving 
> away from where the fireballs land; as matter of fact, a bunch of archers are 
> much better than the catapults. However, as many of my units are stationary 
> in a defensive position, enemy catapults end up doing a lot of damages to my 
> units. How can my catapults be better utilized?

It depends, are you playing against the computer or a human?  

(Assuming against human)

A wall can be useful here.  If you erect a wall between you and your
opponent, and if he just tells his troops to attack something behind the
wall, his troops will get confused and stay put.  Easy targets for the
catapult.  (There can be no way around the wall though...)

If he is just sending in his troops all in a line, your catapult can hit
the ones behind them.  Setting up a formation of footsoldiers or grunts
and a catapult can be nice.  The grunts will stop the knights or ogres
giving enough time for the catapults to shoot at them and damage them
greatly.  

An under used feature (and with fairly good reason) is the attack ground
option.  You can aim the catapult's shot in front of the advancing unit and
hope that you have really good timing :)  Or just leave it as attack
ground at that point and hope by sheer luck that it will hit something
(though it may be good if you have 4 or more catapults going at the same
time).

Comments encouraged.

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Shawn Rycroft
Carleton University
Email address: sryc...@chat.carleton.ca
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