Carrots and rabbits

Too much is at risk here where a single bomb will take down the entire front of that tower and allow 2-3 knights to easily finish taking it down through the inside, the idea of the original was seemingly to not lose anything but simply lure people to wasting time reaching something they cannot reach, whereas your version depicted here actually rewards them for getting in, the other does not.

e:Necroing this thread because I also have a question:

I've been slowly beginning to see things that an enemy can pass over, a builder has a difficult time reaching but knights don't but that do the knights damage (but don't kill them), what are some good things for this? What I guess I mean is ways to sparse the battlefield in your favor, something you can put in the center of a fight to give your guys an edge, so your knights will be almost always fighting a 3 heart-2 heart battle, this was the only thread I could find with a decent enough similarity.

 

Yeah, Neat had a trap like that once.

It was a wide enough spike pit that knights could almost make it, but would miss by a single tile, losing a heart, but able to get out, therefore preventing them from bothering to destroy it.

Thinking about it, you could have a tower that knights can climb up, but can't retreat though (Like Felleres old towers), but is tall enough to allow them to glide over a suitably long spike pit. Any builder will just fall into the pit. Retreat is impossible.

Here's a terrible drawing as an example;

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Main issue would be it would only take one observant builder to claim that half pyramid for themselves, so it would require fairly on the ball defence regardless.

 

https://forum.kag2d.com/threads/228-5-men-go-in-no-man-come-out.2793/

 

That trap is a trap that will kill you, you can avoid it or it will kill you, I mean traps that specifically will deal 1-2 hearts of damage without actually killing you.

Beef's example is a great one to trap the battlefield it's only problem being builders taking over the staircase, however a nice bridge from left tower to over top of right tower can handle that easily. A spike on the exact edge you'd hit when jumping over the spike pit would probably also be nice.

 

I used this quite often lately and it works fine, but needs constant repair.






You can do it on ground as well, but the aim is the same: lure a knight to your door, go thru it with enough space between you and him so that the door will close. On ground the door needs 3/4 stone tiles in order to prevent enemies jumping. The first time i built it, 10 seconds after the round began, in the mid of the map, 1 trap list posted here on the forums called 'stoppers' came to my mind. Unfortunately experienced players won't pick the lure, but playing on Beo's at top hours it's a bloody mess!