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Rohan's defence mechanism

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Lille Rambo:
If we compare Rohan's defence mechanism to the other factions with walls, they are quite bad. They have no catapult option on the wall, to take out long ranged siege weapons. They don't even have an upgrade for their towers. Dwarves have forged blades, Gondor: Fire arrows, Elves have silver thorn arrows, and I was thinking if it is possible to give Rohan something like an spear upgrade for their towers or fire arrows just to level it out with the other factions defences. Secondly later in the game when the soldiers have upgraded armour the arrow tower just tickles them. And yes we can argue if their defence mechanism is the riders, and you use them to take out the catapults, but that is so obvious and easy to counter, they just spam spears. I'm interested in your thoughts on this subject.

Sawman:
I really like your idea to add spear throwers to the arrow towers that would even the playing field I think and see for adding a catapult option for the wall there is a huge problem and that is the Rohan catapult is god awful it is so bad it's not even funny it does nothing and so I feel it would be a waste because no one would ever get it for their defence because the enemy catapults will kill them over and over because of the damage they do

So I think riders are Rohan's only real option for taking out siege effectively

AmosVogel:
Just remember:

Rohan is weak, poor & has no really siege might!

Maybe archers-spearthrowers could enter the defensive towers & make them reach even greater distances to reach siege machines.

Elite KryPtik:
Rohan is not weak or poor, they are just not technologically developed upon the siege path, unlike dwarves. Théoden states in RotK "We are a people who fight rather in the open and on horseback". They are not poor or weak by any means, indeed they have the 2nd largest human kingdom in Middle Earth in the Third Age.

That said, something to give them a long range counter would be nice. I think that simplest solution is to give Flag Towers a range buff for archers nearby, this combined with the Rohan Archers ability Give Them A Volley! would allow them to counter siege quite nicely. I also really like the idea to give the wall towers a spear thrower upgrade, similar to Theodreds towers.

Dendrotheos:
A spear throwing addition would be quite a unique upgrade for the Rohan towers. That doesn't sound to bad an idea. Concerning their lack of tower defences, I think it fits Rohan thematically quite well. Rohan acted in the book as a kingdom that very much prefered to fight in a pitched battle but retreated to their castles if severely outnumbered, in order to bide their time to turn the tide with a sally. Rohan is thus not a defencive nation but nevertheless has a defencive side, which I think comes across very well in Edain (an BFME1) with the lack of powerful defencive weapons, but having a large imposing castle as a base.

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