[228] ASB

All spikes bulletin, a structure largly containing of spikes.



Like someone else building a very similar structure worded it: Basically acavado spikes married to 2 block drop spike pits. One good point of it is that no matter how careful you are as a knight you will loose some hearts from it, as soon as you have at least 2 of those things next to each other. The 2 block long drop into spikes cannot be stopped and the acavado spikes on top make you unable to jump or close the distance in any way. The entry area has normal spikes, then air spikes and in the actual spike put we only got 2 air spikes aswell. Since air spikes impale extremely easy and upon walkover this is very dangerous to walk into and most knights I have seen simply treat it as if its a solid wall, meaning they will not even attempt to get into it. The ones who atempt it, mostly die very quickly. This all in all sort of expensive, but easier to travel through as over walls and cheaper than a 3 block thick wall aswell. Your team can easily get on top since its only 3 blocks high counted from the trap bridges on the side.

Note: The one piece of castle back wall on the top makes the structure harder to collapse since its not possible to mess the structure up completely even if a knight were to invest the time to destroy all the destroyable castle wall pieces.

Cost:
7 castle walls : 70 stone
7 spikes: 70 stone
14 castle back walls: 28 stone
5 trap bridges: 100 wood
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168 stone
100 wood

For reference a standard wall construction with trap bridges on the one side and ladders on the other costs about:
~190 stone
~70 wood (+60 if you add teamdoors on the top of the wall)

so its actually a bit cheaper than using a normal wall, but its a tradeoff. ESPECIALLY since a single one of these cannot be seen as a wall since enemies can still theoretically get through without dying, you would need 4 of them to have enemies die guaranteed, but mostly 2 of them are enough to discourage them enough to stop trying.

 

I like it. I'm all for saving resources, and this trap looks double-deadly compared to your conventional trap bridge spike trap.

 

Why would you want to put four of them? If you only put two of them in a row, you could let a couple get through. This would encourage more of their knights to attempt the feat. (Most of them die.) Getting more kills.

Just my thought on the matter.

 

I haven't been able to build one of these in-game yet, but it looks very deadly. Another good structure Wyeth!

 

Wyeth i name you MASTER ARCHITECT OF THE KING