BEST! Spike Trap Guide Ever Exist, (PS: noob friendly with popping pictures & coloured text)

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I laughed

 

Okay

 

i dont get it

 

well basicly the spike traps need solid block to works...

those all layer trap u guys doing and those spike mostly in the center without any solid block (supporting it) are rendered useless,

Not only that, those spike that gets supported by your own drawbridge are gonna kill your own team (basicly you're making a trap for ur own team-mates)

above all they're waste of space and what an eyesore looking at...

 

Does it work if you put castle background behind the spikes or no? I remember it working in one of the earlier builds at least.

 

Nope, like I said, it needs "solid block", since our drawbridge is considered as "solid block" for us, that's why spike on top drawbridge (without solid block on the side) is a turn around trap for us, but not for the other team,

and yes it used to works on earlier builds, but not anymore, still ppl keeps building the layer traps not noticing the big drawback at this.

 

Your trap is also bad. It needs to be able to kill or else the first knight that hops in will disarm it, basically making it a door that covers the enemy while they tunnel. In fact as I said in the thread I made, in terms of stalling power / time spent, traps are inferior to walls.

 

That's a good point. Active defensive structures which provide a defender bonus- for example archer windows and murderholes as you were saying are even better in terms of stalling power when manned effectively. Though for arguments I'd say that those are tricky as you need have an ally there at the same time as an enemy, and when an enemy is actively engaging your fortification that generally means you have died. You would need a force of sufficient size relative the enemy attacking force to just before the time of the enemy's attack for this to be truly effective, and the timing window is made even smaller by how easily proper forts (not solid slabs) are breached. Anyways I think walls are fairly effective, as essentially they are there to buy you a bit of time and prevent the enemy from capping your outpost before you can respawn and beat them down with your respawn advantage (as your spawn point is closer, though this depends on the distance of their outpost).

Really it all comes back to the old adage "a good offense is the best defense". I was thinking about this earlier, thinking about pacing in TV shows (specifically about Fringe and Dr. Who). What if attacking wasn't always a good move? What if there were periods of peace and periods of attack within a game? I think that would help create greater highs and lows in the game. Maybe resources (the planned coins) will achieve this? I don't know just a random thought I had. It's kind of relevant in of that if you had attacking and not attacking you would have times when it's better to stay back and actively defend a fortification for an extended length of time. Then that would kind of up the value of active defense kind of structures.

But anyways my wall of text is moot as the new build we are all anxiously waiting for will change everything concerning architecture dynamics.

 

I tend to build forts with applications (space for outpost/catapult/doors for archer ports) and I tend to try and build them to allow the defenders the best possible advantage: don't make them climb loads of door ladders to get to the attackers, they should only have to walk through a maximum of 2 doors and the speed which they get to the attackers should be so many times faster than they spend getting through the defense. Digging down into the ground to put your wall is the ideal way to do this, because you give the enemy an obstacle but your own team walk on flat ground to the exit. Plus they have a nice height advantage to jump down from onto enemy knights heads.

That's about the best you can do, if it falls, it mostly means your defenders weren't good enough, rather than the building itself.

 

I really like to differentiate between moving stuff to non-moving stuff, smoothing the map pixel works great for me eye catching up me preys :)

 

In an older build traps like the first one worked very well, that's why a lot of people build them like that...

 

There's plenty of lulls in KAG, its called respawn time :P