Catapults, are they any good?
Catapults are the most powerful units in Evony, they throw huge rocks at the enemy from a very long distance. Catapults are really cool, and for an attack force nothing beats a 125k catapult attack. There are many problems with them though, number one is that they take an extremely long time to build and you need level 10 barracks to build them in. Many players have 100 total barracks that are level 9, but very few have even close to this many level 10 barracks. In addition to level 10 barracks you also need level 10 metal casting and level 10 archery.
From a defensive standpoint, the max archery technology and max walls give these a massive range. They are good at killing approaching units together with your archer towers and archers. Using the upkeep and build time to train more archers would have done just the same though. I think it’s sad that the catapults don’t do better compared to their upkeep and building costs, cause it’s usually fun to have a bunch of the elite units in any game. Maybe they will be improved with Evony Age 2 coming, who knows.
I just thought I’d add a report to show you how the catapults do against archers, rams and good layering. They did win the battle but had heavy losses.
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well i got to say that Catpults kick some manger butt. i hear they are only good for defense and ppl rarly use them for attack.
K.C.
4 Feb 10 at 3:47 pm
i can attack this with 20 waves or more of scout bomb and then few finally waves of 90k archers plus layers with the same result but less costly. are you kidding me? 65k catapults lost?! for what?
therefore catapults are useless.
rhett
5 Feb 10 at 8:43 am
They are also VERY SLOW!!
UPYOURS
10 Feb 10 at 10:59 am
hahaha catapults suck balls and ballista are only good for npc’s i will stay with the 1.5 mil archers and 500k cav
kazz
26 Feb 10 at 3:43 pm
Again, I reiterate my post on the archer page. Very disappoint with the lack of balance in this game. Going to play till the bp is up and see what happens. Cav are nice, but against a massive archer wall(which most pc’s have), they’re pretty much useless, just like all the other units…
Vortex138
26 Apr 10 at 7:49 pm
lol only idiots would use that many catapults, if you’d used 50k rams and added the excess numbers to archers you’d have a lot less casualties, try looking in exercise sometime and place rams v’s catapults then come back and apologise for such a pathetic article on pults.
aLk
27 Apr 10 at 8:46 pm
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Alesha Wohlwend
12 May 10 at 7:23 pm
Hey aLk, are you a tard when it comes to the exercise?.. Do you not realize that it DOESN’T FACTOR HERO AND RESEARCH?
The best bet would be strat cracking and figuring out..
Pults vs (Insert defense/troop type)
For E2, I suggest building Catapults for 12+ npcs maybe 10′s. Yall say they suck but look at a scout report of a level 12.. Oh wait here’s one
http://battlena4.evony.com/default.html?logfile/20100527/02/2a/022ad154385b941771aece749cc88ada.xml
Just imagine how much damage the catapults will do to the defenses of that sucker. I’d rather make catapults and lose them to a level 12 and destroy enough defenses that I could start sending in my rainbows and warrior waves. But that’s just me.
By the way aLk, Don’t be an ass to the guy. He’s just trying to be helpful ;p
Sci
28 May 10 at 12:16 am
Sci does have a point, he is only trying to help. Do you see a sign saying that he is the end all be all of experts when it comes to Evony?? No. I mean I realize that here in America we expect everything to work the way we want it period and that everyone who posts anything to be perfect. However this is a FREE game mind you (well if you so chose to pay you can). Any work done to it is done with no guarantees of payment, so be much nicer to people who spend their time to give us FREE entertainment
mizzouKC
23 Jun 10 at 6:06 pm
yeah but scouts sent in good numbers with a bit of troop defence can tear apart catapults! just test it out in your rally spot! scouts are cheap and easy!
Johnwils
15 Jul 10 at 9:42 pm
DO NOT TRUST THE EXERCISE! It doesn’t factor in your heroes, wall defenses and research. If you intend on using one, use evocal.
Sci
27 Jul 10 at 6:04 am
if the combined attack value of all your pults is higher than the combined att value of any other troops then scouts will tear into them just as if you were hitting arch
Dante
23 Oct 10 at 3:33 am