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Re: how to best use Catapult in Warcraft I?

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From: cot... Chris Cothrun
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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Date: 1996/01/05
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