Useful Structures - a community effort.

Which kind? A catapult? A ballista? A trebuchet?
I'm a personal fan of the mangonel.

Also, what ever happened to the stockpiles and rock bucket things?

 

Just remember you lose 2 coins per block when you destory them again. Not that it matters much if you are a builder, but I like to build stuff during setup and use the coins for bombs as a knight at round start a lot of times.

 

I believe the whole point of a stockpile is to be like a network: if you had two stockpiles and you put 10 stone in one, it would appear in the other. It works the same way with retrieving.

 

Yeah that's me not reading the changelog completely :>>

 

Yeah pretty sure even bombs and arrows eventually disappear. Its a decently long timer though.

 

Nobody posted the one-way staircase yet? Or the skybridge?!?!?

 

Asterix's Corridor of Death

Okay, so here's my useful structure:




Okay, so what this thing does is fairly clear. With the new patch, and the inability for enemy knights to destroy stone, the concept behind this 'trap' is to severely inhibit strong knight pushes to retrieve your flag.

There are a few key elements to the corridor:

• Firstly, the 3 gap spacing. The 3 gap spacing allows for spike stabs when enemies try to move through the corridor, jump, fall, or walk into sets of spikes. The main benefit of this is that those pesky knights will be getting stabbed often.
• Secondly, the corridor must be built 7 blocks high (not including the trap door layer). This allows for 2 sets of 3 gap spacing, with the allowance for a block in the middle (note, it can be multiples of 7 blocks high, i.e. 14 blocks high if you want a really tall corridor).
• Thirdly, Ladders. Ladders have 2 benefits in this case - firstly, they slow down the knights. secondly, they create obstacles that need to be overcome.
• Fourthly, lots of spikes. the more spikes the better. As soon as a knight gets stabbed once, he is essentially dead - as they hit a set of spikes, the recoil/bounce effect will most likely cause them to get hit by another set of spikes, and then another.
• Fifthly, durability. As the map wears on, and the corridor has been bombed to shreds, it only gets more and more powerful - the opening of passages through the corridor challenges knights with the ego to try to pass through, and with arrows and mayhem surrounding it, their chances of getting through are slim

Summary:
Of course there are always going to be the usual ways around fortifications (i.e. digging under it, or a lame skybridge), but for the most part, this is a durable and great way to stop powerful pushes. The madness of a large fight only adds to the strength of it (i.e. archer fire from the ladders) as it means knights have to worry about more things other than just making their way through the corridor.
It is also relatively cheap to make these (being largely built out of backwall and ladders), and is easily makeable during build time with a bit of practice!

 

An archer could easily get through this by skipping across the drawbridges. In fact even without that an archer could probably snake his way through arrow laddering around, though that would be more difficult.

Knight can bomb jump over or even just jump through if they makes sure to land on the blocks on their corners. Lowering himself down via the ladders may or may not prevent him from damage as well.

I don't mean to be a dick but you're probably better off just building a straight up wall.

 

It needs a wall in front of it, because a single builder can easily come and destroy it in 20 seconds, and a catapult could tear it into pieces in seconds.

 

I think the point of it is that people can actually go through, meaning they will try to and then a lot of them will get killed. You're always talking about increasing incentive to travel the ground route, I think this would increase the incentive at the cost of a lot of your dead units. While being manned at the same time, I can honestly see this being a death trap. It's quite wide, so a bomb jump might not make it over the whole thing.

 

This would destroy the sole purpose of it: Attracting players to walk into it and die.

 

Well that is true. I am thinking in ideal terms- I forget the stupidity of the average player, which should never be under estimated.

This is a good trap.

 

Looks good but i think the defence on it is no good so yeah but i like the traps so ty =)

 

Ideally, you'd want a hole just before the first spikes too, because you can walk through spikes without taking damage, you only get hurt if you jump on them. The hole means you'll jump on the first spikes too.

 

^ Agreed ty Neat for agreeing =) i also had a similar idea so ty

 

I don't mean a tower RIGHT next to it, but a bit further. That'd add even more viability to the trap, because when it gets destroyed the attackers go on adrenaline rage, "fuck yeah I'm pro" and run straightly to the trap.
At least average foe.