"Tim Burnett" <tburnett2@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> In the manual for BTS, it is mentioned that siege units no longer cause
> damage to units that have health below the siege unit's damage limit.
> This applies when you use the unit to attack a city. You can no longer
> roll up with 10 trebuchets and beat a well defended city so easily.
> However, the thing that I have noticed is that when you bombarding a
city,
> the number of % points that you lower the cities defenses is much
smaller.
> A catapult with the bombard promotion takes 4% off and without the
> promotion takes only 2%. In Vanilla Civ4 and Warlords, I think it
started
> at 6% and went to 10% or 12%. The result is that if you roll up to 80%
> city with 5 catapults, it now takes a few turns to beat it down enough
to
> attack. BTS seems to make it easier to defend your cities.
>
> Tim
>
>
Ive found the % is lower for some sities in ome games than others.
I'm not sure what factor determines this. Maybe the defenders.
As an average ho, my siege eem to be doing about as well at bombarding as
before.
My guess is you were using ancient units against modern a fairly modern
civ.
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