@@legasius9358 bro what. Friderick is literally the strongest AI in the game. Sure, he progresses slowly but once he hits that economy point he is unstoppable.
@@venomm4563 Frederick is objectively pretty bad. His attacks are useless and even when he has like 100 000 gold he's not ever gonna kill you. And his defence isn't that great either.
@@venomm4563 his economy never matched Saladin, Emir, or Wolf his castle is very weak compared to Wolf his attacks are rather... pathetic imho (compared to other competent AI)
Aside from the usefulness of them all, I've always found defensive towersto be very nice from an aesthetic point of view. And since I love to waste some time during missions to just give a good look to the castle and enjoy the atmosphere...I think there's a reason to build them :D
Love using the lookout towers to stack a few crossbowmen and archers along with shields to basically chip away the bots. Very long range helps. Stacking units on towers is also pretty much a necessity for the extreme version of the game I think. I don't know, I'm not a pro player by any means, but I had to make a few square or round towers at the very start of the game on each level to defend against the early waves coming from bot outposts.
The size doesn't matter. They are all beautiful :< Always wondered if the lookout tower can be made tankier by shielding it with a wall. Or can catapults hit above wall height? Okay, reinstalling once more.....
yes, you can build walls around the lookout tower to make it tankier, and yes the projectiles can still directly hit the tower if they happen to fly higher than the walls. Doesn't matter tho. Building a lookout tower with 5 shields, 5 crossbows, 5 archers and 5 arab bows on top of them pretty much covers an entire flank. And if you build them as forward as possible, the enemy engineers will try to build their catapults within the range of the tower, so yeah. Quite a cheap way to defeat a lot of missions.
Better yet, use a Large Gatehouse to serve as both a shield and an entrance for your units. If you're only attacked from the front at flat floor level from catapults, the gatehouse has enough height to block all of them. You won't have the same luck against Trebuchets though, but good defense is better than no defense.
Huh. I never thought to actually put shields on top of towers. Didn't even occur to me that that was possible. XD But yes, I love using Lookout Towers in my castle defenses too, simply because of the sheer range boost they provide. What's more, they're so high up that horse archer shots still have a tendency to miss them, so they can defend quite easily vs massed horse archers. To help protect them, I usually also place the Lookout towers within my walls, and then put an extra layer of wall + crenallations outside. I also use Square and Round Towers in my defenses, although it's partly as much for aesthetics as it is practically. I hardly ever use Turrets unless I'm placing them for aesthetic reasons (like building a small walled outpost around my quarries or mines, complete with a small gatehouse, and the biggest Towers would just look out of place.)
I play stronghold only campaign and war path(or however that map with road with missions is called) and i think lookout tower is straight up the best. You plop one down, slow down the game speed, select groups of 5 archers and fill the tower until there's ~200-300 archers
Watch towers are great for the first defenses you build. Then you expand the castle with thicker walls and round towers and perhaps even a third short wall to annoy the opponent... (with a trench in between). That stops assassins, torch bearers and really slows down the opponent.
@@Gopiciko2 Towers are actually good in single player especially in hard defensive missions, but online since people are gonna abuse the hell out of the catapults towers are generally a bad idea there
Against bot, Aesthetic matters for me. I use pretty much everything in order to fits them. Hence I don't usually overcrowd my tower. I set them in patrol. XD
tue for pvp but against bots...the watchtower does protect your archers to an insane level they are basicly invulnerable up there and you can fit dozens of them in one if you time it right. The only real downside being not having siege equipment. The 2 towers with siege equipment are both nice, but the round tower doesnt give your archers half the defense bonus of the other so thats a no brainer in my book
Look out tower is the best against bots hands down. That range is op I used to make them with stairs until I realized you can attach them to a small gate house and never bother with it again.
I've seen a video a long time ago that actually square towers are better because they give more protection for the units than round towers. Can you test it?
You forgot to mention the probability of units getting hit by arrows which is lowest for square and round tower (less than 20%, if i remember correctly) and much much better than gate houses or other towers. Still, conclusion stays the same... Round tower is more tanky and square tower the cost efficient with similar stats.
its not really cost efficient though as the square tower has less hitpoints per stone compared to the round tower. its just a little cheaper and tbh, the most important part is the balista on top against opponent siege weapons ... ^^
Square Towers are useful for the starting point since you can make Barracks and this one (+2 stone for low wall and stairs bruh) But in my opinion, towers are useful for the ballistas and magnobels lol
Well you ban catapults on multi anyway and if you are not tryharding you can build a wall with 10 stone towers for fun. Btw 35 stone towers are go-to if you want longer game against bots with swarms of catapults as they take less space so you can fit more ballista on fewer surface as these are 1 tile smaller
Just build walls infront of the towers? Lookout is insane (especially in single player) due the extra height advantage. Put 5 shields in there and stack some groups of 5 crossbows and they will never ever die. It's also really cheap so it's easy to plant down whilst building up your castle without having to spend a ton of stone on it.
Square towers are nice vs bots in maps where your bases are super close to each other - you just buy stone, build like 4squares, stack them with mangonels, target lord keep and you can just focus on economy. 10mins later you see enemy base only consists of Castle and Lord going up and down :) so on maps where you start very low on gold (2000), that 5 stone difference is nice.
Square towers are best 👌 simply because your towers will go down anyways but at least they're cheaper lol, can fit them with mangonels and ballistae early
Wait, do the tower ballistas gave the same range on square and circle towers? I always built square towers because I thought they were taller and gave more range
Because in multiplayer (especially due to UCP allowing for faster construction of siege units) people tend to make lots of catapults, therefore you're basically playing a losing game if you try investing in towers when a group of catapults can easily melt the towers.
i always use round towers best one ever and the one that you can put catapult best for your friend enemy xD i alwasy put some towers that can hit him at maximum range
@@TheUbiouS UI use many melee unist, few siege, and towers with range units + ballistas are good against it. in pvp players use range unit+shields. towers go down to fast, units lose 1/2hp. but some times it can be helpful, in game 1vs1 with timer ~20min before players can recruit military
Because anyone can build 50 catapults and there is no tower after one shot. You mix that with horsearchers with shields amongst them and then you got that classic multiplayer orgy game of same fights over and over again
i love playing Stronghold against bot, build tower and stacking lot of longbowman or crossbow on it while pretending it was lord of the ring battle of helms deep.
@@Jefflenious Good job man , but let me show you a other two ways . 1 make a tour first then make a wall next to it and make the ladder in the opposite position, then bring any number of men and make them go up , but don't point the mouse on tour , no , point the mouse on the u made next to the tour . After you do it few men will left behind then u take them again and make them go up the wall again not the tour , keep doing it till u make them all in the tour
@@Jefflenious 2 Make game speed at 20 Biggest tour can take 50 troops Then you have to make groups of 50 troops and select every group and make them go up the tour with simply aiming the mouse up the tour , u won't need one more war next to the tour in this trick . Make game speed at 90 again if u wish
0:37
Jeff: "Bro this tower is useless"
Emperor Frederick: "And I took that personally"
That might be one of the reasons why emperor Frederick is useless
@@legasius9358 bro what. Friderick is literally the strongest AI in the game. Sure, he progresses slowly but once he hits that economy point he is unstoppable.
@@venomm4563 nah i dont think so, his attacks are dissapointing, defense is okay . Deffo does not bit emir, or wolf, as their attacks are stronger
@@venomm4563 Frederick is objectively pretty bad. His attacks are useless and even when he has like 100 000 gold he's not ever gonna kill you.
And his defence isn't that great either.
@@venomm4563 his economy never matched Saladin, Emir, or Wolf
his castle is very weak compared to Wolf
his attacks are rather... pathetic imho (compared to other competent AI)
I’m sorry but you forgot to mention the most powerful tower… the Siege Tower.
… I’ll show myself out.
xD
Nah the best tower is the wall, wall best tower waifu
also the big gate, if want to put ballista or catapult.
I mean you’re not wrong, get yourself
a tower who can defend & attack.
Except Lookout Tower, the remaining tower can hold big flag, so it can make your castle looks aesthetic and beautiful.
Always go for square tower for me. The temptation of tower installed siege equipment is always alluring.
Aside from the usefulness of them all, I've always found defensive towersto be very nice from an aesthetic point of view. And since I love to waste some time during missions to just give a good look to the castle and enjoy the atmosphere...I think there's a reason to build them :D
Love using the lookout towers to stack a few crossbowmen and archers along with shields to basically chip away the bots. Very long range helps.
Stacking units on towers is also pretty much a necessity for the extreme version of the game I think. I don't know, I'm not a pro player by any means, but I had to make a few square or round towers at the very start of the game on each level to defend against the early waves coming from bot outposts.
yeah, thats what the strategy was.
I pick Square tower for aesthetics lol
Its ugly to stick Round Tower against each other like in 2:07
same
The size doesn't matter. They are all beautiful :<
Always wondered if the lookout tower can be made tankier by shielding it with a wall. Or can catapults hit above wall height?
Okay, reinstalling once more.....
yes, you can build walls around the lookout tower to make it tankier, and yes the projectiles can still directly hit the tower if they happen to fly higher than the walls.
Doesn't matter tho. Building a lookout tower with 5 shields, 5 crossbows, 5 archers and 5 arab bows on top of them pretty much covers an entire flank. And if you build them as forward as possible, the enemy engineers will try to build their catapults within the range of the tower, so yeah. Quite a cheap way to defeat a lot of missions.
Better yet, use a Large Gatehouse to serve as both a shield and an entrance for your units. If you're only attacked from the front at flat floor level from catapults, the gatehouse has enough height to block all of them. You won't have the same luck against Trebuchets though, but good defense is better than no defense.
Huh. I never thought to actually put shields on top of towers. Didn't even occur to me that that was possible. XD But yes, I love using Lookout Towers in my castle defenses too, simply because of the sheer range boost they provide. What's more, they're so high up that horse archer shots still have a tendency to miss them, so they can defend quite easily vs massed horse archers. To help protect them, I usually also place the Lookout towers within my walls, and then put an extra layer of wall + crenallations outside.
I also use Square and Round Towers in my defenses, although it's partly as much for aesthetics as it is practically. I hardly ever use Turrets unless I'm placing them for aesthetic reasons (like building a small walled outpost around my quarries or mines, complete with a small gatehouse, and the biggest Towers would just look out of place.)
That what she said
I play stronghold only campaign and war path(or however that map with road with missions is called) and i think lookout tower is straight up the best. You plop one down, slow down the game speed, select groups of 5 archers and fill the tower until there's ~200-300 archers
All good until they treb that tower. 😅
Watch towers are great for the first defenses you build. Then you expand the castle with thicker walls and round towers and perhaps even a third short wall to annoy the opponent... (with a trench in between). That stops assassins, torch bearers and really slows down the opponent.
Let’s be honest, towers are just for a look lol
True
why do you think so? I mean, I only play singleplayer but want to know why do you think they are useless :D
Cuz aid dumb enough and nothing can stand 20 catapults
@@Gopiciko2 Towers are actually good in single player especially in hard defensive missions, but online since people are gonna abuse the hell out of the catapults towers are generally a bad idea there
Put 50 Crossbow on round tower and then see the defense
I like the round tower the most, it has a large capacity and can put engineers with their Mangonel/Balista
Against bot, Aesthetic matters for me. I use pretty much everything in order to fits them. Hence I don't usually overcrowd my tower. I set them in patrol. XD
tue for pvp but against bots...the watchtower does protect your archers to an insane level they are basicly invulnerable up there and you can fit dozens of them in one if you time it right.
The only real downside being not having siege equipment.
The 2 towers with siege equipment are both nice, but the round tower doesnt give your archers half the defense bonus of the other so thats a no brainer in my book
1:41 Wait, what did UCP do to towers? I can't find any changes.
Why the Arabian lord always has LOOK OUT TOWER and ROUND TOWER together ?
Sultan, Saladin, Caliph, Wazir, Nazir and Emir
I don't agree with you on the defense turret. It is pretty good for defending internally in some situations.
But lookout tower is very usefull when bots use fire balista. It neutralized their attack.
Look out tower is the best against bots hands down. That range is op
I used to make them with stairs until I realized you can attach them to a small gate house and never bother with it again.
Instructions unclear; Made 50 catapults.
I wish I could a find a video fully explaining whatever UCP is
I uses Lookout Tower to protect my Inner Ring Castle, then moving on to the next bigger towers as they can holdout many damages before get ruined.
WOW YOU ARE A LEGEND PLAYING IN 2022 I AM STARTING AGAIN
I've seen a video a long time ago that actually square towers are better because they give more protection for the units than round towers. Can you test it?
Love how you givin tips on 20 y old game
watches video intently with interest
continues to only build the towers I think look the coolest in a given situation, Square towers ftw
You forgot to mention the probability of units getting hit by arrows which is lowest for square and round tower (less than 20%, if i remember correctly) and much much better than gate houses or other towers. Still, conclusion stays the same... Round tower is more tanky and square tower the cost efficient with similar stats.
its not really cost efficient though as the square tower has less hitpoints per stone compared to the round tower. its just a little cheaper and tbh, the most important part is the balista on top against opponent siege weapons ... ^^
Square Towers are useful for the starting point since you can make Barracks and this one (+2 stone for low wall and stairs bruh)
But in my opinion, towers are useful for the ballistas and magnobels lol
your content is great jeff i see them everyday
Iirc round towers are also immune to tunnelers.
Well you ban catapults on multi anyway and if you are not tryharding you can build a wall with 10 stone towers for fun. Btw 35 stone towers are go-to if you want longer game against bots with swarms of catapults as they take less space so you can fit more ballista on fewer surface as these are 1 tile smaller
Just build walls infront of the towers? Lookout is insane (especially in single player) due the extra height advantage. Put 5 shields in there and stack some groups of 5 crossbows and they will never ever die. It's also really cheap so it's easy to plant down whilst building up your castle without having to spend a ton of stone on it.
Hey jefflenious how are?
Can you make a video about wolf castles and how to beat them
BTW amazing content ❤️❤️
Can you make a video about what happens when you leave a crusader lord and an Arabic lord? Who would win?
The arabic lord is weaker. The crusader always wins exept the have some bonus in them. Otherwise the arabic lord is weaker
Square towers are nice vs bots in maps where your bases are super close to each other - you just buy stone, build like 4squares, stack them with mangonels, target lord keep and you can just focus on economy. 10mins later you see enemy base only consists of Castle and Lord going up and down :) so on maps where you start very low on gold (2000), that 5 stone difference is nice.
great video
Square towers are best 👌 simply because your towers will go down anyways but at least they're cheaper lol, can fit them with mangonels and ballistae early
would have liked to see the different the height makes.
Brought to by Tower Defense genre games. :v
Do look out tower has increased range?
Wait, do the tower ballistas gave the same range on square and circle towers? I always built square towers because I thought they were taller and gave more range
maybe towers are good against decreasing youtube viewer numbers?
Round tower has high edges it prevents some arrows to reach your troops (more protection)
Wait what? Towers are bad? I mean the catapult you can put on top of them are pretty good.
I never play multiplayer, but why are towers useless in PVP?
Because in multiplayer (especially due to UCP allowing for faster construction of siege units) people tend to make lots of catapults, therefore you're basically playing a losing game if you try investing in towers when a group of catapults can easily melt the towers.
I always use round tower, I'm not greedy?? hehe I'm but you do not know yet about the range right?
if my castle doesnt look like Neuschwanstein then what keeps me from not deleting system32 exe ?
i always use round towers best one ever and the one that you can put catapult best for your friend enemy xD i alwasy put some towers that can hit him at maximum range
2:31 stone needed
You versus 7 Abbots........
Bro. stlye > function
All towers have their place because your castle needs drip first and foremost
Why towers are bad against skilled players in online skirmishes?
Because catapults,trebuchets and mangonels obviously lol
@@Ugh718 Thx for answer!
@@jimcrow582 make 50 catapults and see it melt
why u did not talk about reach ?
I think the round towers are the best towers because they never get hit head on cause they are round.
My mom got mad at me when we were visiting a local round tower, and told me to stand in the corner.
@@nunyabizznez2805what?
wood needed.
Never played against people, why is it useless to build towers?
mb cos of fair rules in pvp, that dnt exist in pve))
@@leelees I thought it is because of meta. Maybe building is useless in pvp
@@TheUbiouS UI use many melee unist, few siege, and towers with range units + ballistas are good against it. in pvp players use range unit+shields. towers go down to fast, units lose 1/2hp.
but some times it can be helpful, in game 1vs1 with timer ~20min before players can recruit military
Because anyone can build 50 catapults and there is no tower after one shot. You mix that with horsearchers with shields amongst them and then you got that classic multiplayer orgy game of same fights over and over again
how do you record this game?
look up some screen recording software, like obs for example
There's no range bonus of any tower
How does UCP balance towers?
I never played against other players why are towers actually bad?
The biggest flaw in this game is that towers don’t give you any range bonus. That’s why they’re useless in online matches
i love playing Stronghold against bot, build tower and stacking lot of longbowman or crossbow on it while pretending it was lord of the ring battle of helms deep.
How do u place troops on tower
How to give money to enemy in costume game?
Stone need---
☹️ Towers useless in PvP? 😞 For some reason that made so sad.
Well they're still used on UCP bootstrap mode, but in the regular horse archer arena they're useless!
Why did i even watch this? I don't even play this game
U cant shot the soldiers who on lookout towers easly one from them kills about 7 from ur army
Lookout tower to harass worker
unless you do not care :D
Learn this game bro
square tower !!!!
I just use the useless tower to go thru extreme campaign T_T
it's not useless if it works man
My.lord you vídeos aré amazing but i dont understand 100%. Because i dont speack English 😢😢
And assasins cant climb round tower
defense towers:
I'm surprised 😮.
You really don't know about make an entire army inside one tour ???
If u really don't know I can show you
Here!
ruclips.net/video/qRVMP-kT0uQ/видео.html
@@Jefflenious
Good job man , but let me show you a other two ways .
1 make a tour first then make a wall next to it and make the ladder in the opposite position, then bring any number of men and make them go up , but don't point the mouse on tour , no , point the mouse on the u made next to the tour .
After you do it few men will left behind then u take them again and make them go up the wall again not the tour , keep doing it till u make them all in the tour
@@Jefflenious
2
Make game speed at 20
Biggest tour can take 50 troops
Then you have to make groups of 50 troops and select every group and make them go up the tour with simply aiming the mouse up the tour , u won't need one more war next to the tour in this trick .
Make game speed at 90 again if u wish
@@Jefflenious the trick in number 2 is make all troops above tour before any of them could actually go up there
Eeeew last Video i looked from you. AI voice no good
Ok boomer
Puh. Sorry, I’m out! I cannot stand the computer voice
All good man
I'd like to talk during my playthrough videos but apparently my mic sounds horrible, can't figure out OBS settings for mic!