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Article #350Re: how to best use Catapult in Warcraft I?
From: cot... Chris Cothrun
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 00:00
Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 00:00
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Station some of the foot soldiers (forgot exactly what they are called) or some knights in a line in front of your archers. When an enemy rolls in, the knights will delay the enemy long enough to let the archers finish them off. If you put a catapault in behind the archers the catapault will take them out even faster. The catapault has a longer 'vision range' so if you put it far enough back that it only sees the enemy when they roll up against your line of knights it will fire then and take out the enemy quick. the catapault is also handy against the enemy catapaults that roll in. If you can get the shot off first, you have a good chance of taking the enemy catapault out before it does any damage to you. If you like archers you probably bunch them up where the enemies come through and a fireball from a catapault does you a lot of damage. Make sure you can see far enough to know someone is coming. sl...@lrc.med.uwo.ca (Stephen Lai) 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?
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From: cot...@ix.netcom.com (Chris Cothrun) Subject: Re: how to best use Catapult in Warcraft I? Date: 1996/01/05 Message-ID: <4cjmol$mt4@ixnews8.ix.netcom.com> X-Deja-AN: 134390278 references: <slai.555.00AB1063@lrc.med.uwo.ca> organization: Ingenuity Inc. x-netcom-date: Fri Jan 05 9:22:29 AM PST 1996 reply-to: cot...@ix.netcom.com newsgroups: alt.games.warcraft MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit