[758][Gen] Long Boats

What benefits do long boats do. Wouldn't be better to just have a warboat.

 

Is that all it does better. If so, long boat<war boat

 

War boat can only be rowed by 3 people at a time, im not sure about the limit for longboats but it is FAR greater then war boats

also

wrong

longboat>warboat for early game rushes (oh god this game is starting to turn into starcraft :P)

warboat>longboat later in the game when you need to defend from 7 different turrets and stuff

 

A catapult on a longboat that is fully manned can be devastating, there is little to no time for the enemy to prepare, and by the time they do mount the bows the cata has already taken down their defences.

A warboat however, is slow enough for the enemy to prepare for the attack, and the warboat does not protect the person sitting on the cata.

 

^ That's true.
To sum it up:
1) Longboats can be accelerated more easily compared to war boats.
2) The maximum of people that can row a war boat at any one time is three, as opposed to the virtually unlimited rowers of a longboat.
3) Mounted bows can be set up on war boats (to devastating effect), but can't be set up on longboats (I'm quite sure that this is the case).
4) War boats offer mediocre protection against arrows, while longboats have none.
5) Longboats are easier to get into while in the water! Sometimes you drown while trying to get into a war boat.

 

As far as I can tell, longboats are useless in the current version. The shielding, ladders, and ability to act as a spawn point and class changing station of warboats outclasses them in every way except for a somewhat slower speed.

 

Boats will need some major overhaul in the design and functionality, they are nice looking and they function but they are incredibly glitchy at this moment.

 

Longboats can ram, absolutely destroying walls, but warboats offer spawn and decent protection. Neither is universally better than the other, but one can be dramatically superior in the right conditions.

 

Longboats turn on a dime, and are very fast, so if anything, they are something to be feared.
They can eat through walls without needing to ram, with enough rowers.

Warboats are spawn points, and can hold a siege engine, slower and slower to turn, they are more protected from debris and arrows.
Their main issue is that bombs stick to them.
But they ram hard at a good speed.

 

I tally-
Longboats - 6

+2 to longboat ​

War boats - 4