Mini Archer Nest

I shamelessly combined this arrow slit and this spike trap to make a cheap, fast archer's nest that's effective at holding back enemy knights in the middle of the map.

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The biggest problem it has so far is that a knight can stand right next to the bottom team door on the left and an archer in the top can't do anything about it. Does anybody have any input for fixing this? Or pointing out any other shortcomings of the tower ? I've been using it with great effect so far but want to know how to keep making it better.

 

You know what you can add, instead of that team bridge there in the corner it would be easier if you put a archer shop there so its more easier for the archer to get arrows.

 

" A Xorlathor archer tower appears! The tower uses archer attack! It's super affective! " :)

 

Hm that's a good idea, either putting an arrow workshop or a healing station there would help the archers a ton...

 

Ground doors!


I added a second trap to try and break up the vulnerable ground doors, and added an arrow shop and a few more improvements here and there.

 

You could put a small spike pit out front to keep the knights at bay.

 

too easy to bomb jump.... hurry up update

 

Also, a few knights may be able to form a shield ladder then shield-parachute over...

 

yea no good none the less

 

I think something like this:



Might work even better. I put the quarters in there instead of an archer shop so it can be useful to all classes, archers will probably have arrows from base, or get them from the tree behind the tower. If the knights do manage to get through the first door, (unlikely cause you have a murder hole:)) they will fall into another BC 2x3 trap. I also put some corner spikes to deal with bomb jumpers, and there is easy access to the roof.

 

Yeah, always when I play an archer I find instant healing more useful than instant ability to buy another 40 arrows. Because you know, you don't usually run out of 40 arrows in 10 seconds.

ERGO: The first shop near every archer nest should be quarters.

 

now if only more people would use it...

 

Short, to the point, negative, 1 helpful suggestion. Sorry for "Spam" but that was just mean Blue.

Pretty much what my last post said, though I forgot to mention that it would be quite easy to bomb jump over it, so don't really need to put the spikes on the roof.

 

Which I agree completely with everything you said there, but the way you put it in your original post was just mean. . . The creator of the building (and the community reading this thread) learn nothing from: "Too many faults, needs kneecaps , too short, inner spike pit is poop and shallow", this says nothing about how to fix it, and how is anyone supposed to know what a "kneecaps" is. I know what it is but that is besides the point.

I really don't want to start an argument here, just trying to tell you that you should try to be more constructive. "If you don't have anything good to say, then don't say anything" Is a rule to live by.

 

Haha thanks for defending me Killatron, I'm still a newbie at KAG and everything BlueLuigi said is pretty much right - the reason I posted this little structure was to learn, not to say that my way was the best (which it obviously isn't).

Anyways, I'll read through the tutorial mentioned and come up with a new version. I've looked through a bunch of tower designs in the builder thread, but I was looking for a small and quick archer's nest that could be built right behind the frontline and I didn't see anything like that.

 

Actually, this isn't a truth. Today I had a trap like this (well, my was 2 tiles wide but no more differences) and even when trapbridges are damaged you can just brake them (they are not needed anyway). Spikes in this configuration aren't too easy to brake.

 

Honest opinion?

If i saw this as a knight I would facepalm hard. Kudos for trying and working on things but as a fairly experienced player this is laughable to overcome given enough time, or simply bomb jump/laddered over.

Keep working on it, we all started out and its good that you're experimenting and participating in the community.