Uh, yes, actually.
I'm not going to drive a trebuchet to my kids' school to pick them up.
Obviously you are meant to place trebuchets along the route and be shot from one to the next. With exact timing you could even use another trebuchet to slow you down each time.
For sure, the unit cap impact alone sells the abrams.
bad math, trebuchet is 200 gold AND 200 wood, unless you're in a civ with gold or wood discount
This is a Canadian instance, so I'm pretty sure the wood discount applies.
M1 Abrams: Requires an advanced economy plus an army of General Dynamics contractors for maintenance
Trebuchet: Can be completely repaired by one hammer-wielding villager
Plus, I assume that tanks count as a cavalry archer unit, which means any old monk can start converting them. Meanwhile trebuchets can't be converted until your enemy researches redemption at the monastery.
in AOEIII artillery are siege weapons so I think tanks would count as that, I remember getting my onagers converted in AOE but I don't remember if that's a thing in AOEII
Do they come with the required manpower though?
Crew of 4 for the tank. Crew of... thousands? To move and use 541 trebuchets?
Easy, slap an ebike on it and you cut it down to one per trebuchet.
Many thousands if they're traction trebuchets
At that price, everyone should have a trebuchet!
You mean you don't??
Not enough wololo.
If anything there's been too much of that shit lately
In the older civ games, unit stacking was a thing. The maintenance would be costly and you might break the game with some kind of unit cap, but I think the trebuchets would eventually win.
I play freeciv which is civ 3.5. Unit stacking is a thing and a stack of whatever can defeat whatever
Incidentally I like to give competing civilizations railway technology so when I attack them I can easily overrun all their big cities in a single turn
If only ceramic armor had an answer for the minimum damage limit.
I’ll accept your concept if you’ll sell me 200 gold for 11,457 dollars
Adjusted for market, 200gold is $8M
What if the trebuchets threw dragons teeth instead of ball shaped rocks ?
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