Redoubts in IA/GA

[Gargantuar]

With the predominance of tanks and planes in IA/GA, does anybody find redoubt towers useful? IMHO they have been rendered useless. even british archers shoot them off from far . Guess with the passing of days of infantry being the bulk of attacking army, even the days of redoubts are over. Your thoughts ...

 

[Brand Marrow]

They can be useful in defending your oil refinery, two adjacent redoubts can help take down a herd of raiders while they try to break through the refinery stockade, cannons are only good at taking out the wall miners, mortars are generally spread out to cover the whole base.

 

[Gargantuar]

Interesting, my next post was going to be about raiders becoming useless. Haven't been attacked by them since weeks as my mills and markets are all outside walls, and only oil is protected. Can u post a snapshot if possible please.

 

[Brand Marrow]

I think this may be because you are at the higher medal levels. I drop down to gold/silver league when I want to stock up on rss.

Unfortunately, my base is not optimized for oil defense right now, if I get it back in shape, I'll post a screenshot.

 

[BV123]

Raiders usually thrive below the 1k range.

 

[Yellowmar]

And also between 2400 - 2600 range. where I live.

 

[Furyan]

They can be useful in defending your oil refinery, two adjacent redoubts can help take down a herd of raiders while they try to break through the refinery stockade, cannons are only good at taking out the wall miners, mortars are generally spread out to cover the whole base.

I use my x4 cannons on each side of my wells with storage right in the middle with a couple of traps. But it depends on where and how you have them placed. my wells are walled into a T shape. I only stolen by srsly hord of raiders 15 or 20+ then they might only get one or two wells max or I get it stolen by zeps. Thats it.

 

[Quang t legend]

With the predominance of tanks and planes in IA/GA, does anybody find redoubt towers useful? .

They are the reason you don't see heavy infantry much, just build them but need not to rush upgrade.

 

[BV123]

With the predominance of tanks and planes in IA/GA, does anybody find redoubt towers useful? IMHO they have been rendered useless. even british archers shoot them off from far . Guess with the passing of days of infantry being the bulk of attacking army, even the days of redoubts are over. Your thoughts ...

Like what some have mentioned above. Redoubt are weak but not totally useless. They are there to help keep footies, rifles and planes in check.
I don't consider them key defences but they do play a role in defence support. Who else is there to prevent/deter footies from overrunning your mortars, anti-tanks and towers.

Give a break to the little guy standing at the top of the tower with his little gat.

 

[Funks]

Give a break to the little guy standing at the top of the tower with his little gat.

There are probably two or three of them actually, sitting round playing cards, drinking snapps and scrolling through porn mags, lazily smoking a ciggy (Ive zoomed in and peeked through the slit)

 

[Motaz Tarek]

yep they r completely useless they can be even sabotaged to let the raiders in, so, no I don't agree that they r useful aganist raiders too
but i think they r the main reason why heavy infantry is obsolete now so that might be the main role why they were made

 

[Funks]

anyone fully upgrade one though? wonder what those ones are like.

 

[BV123]

anyone fully upgrade one though? wonder what those ones are like.

I'm 75% completed IA. And my redoubts are still level 1. Sorry I can't help you there. Lol

 

[Funks]

I'm 75% completed IA. And my redoubts are still level 1. Sorry I can't help you there. Lol

 

[BV123]

You laugh?? I know of global guys still with lvl1 redoubts! Hahahaha

 

[Nathan Win]

Yeh I'm not too worry about them when attacking and they're pretty useless on defense unless the troops are distracted by another building. All mine are still level 1. Last on the upgrade list. I prioritize other buildings first.

 

[Magnifico]

The Machine Gun unit (from the Factory) suppresses defenders. The level 3 Redoubt is a machine gun tower, so I wonder if it also causes suppression. Even if it doesn't kill anybody, maybe it can slow them down . . .

 

[Funks]

Nah Id believe what you said, I just place Nam-Dog cause you said you still cant help haha.. nm

 

[Ravenlord]

anyone fully upgrade one though? wonder what those ones are like.

I've got a couple of lvl 3s and a lvl 4 and I can tell ya they're great for taking out numbers of troops at a time as well as giving planes a headache. Like any other building they can be taken out with multiple planes or a bomber or massed archers but they'll give you a headache before they go down.

 

[BV123]

The Machine Gun unit (from the Factory) suppresses defenders. The level 3 Redoubt is a machine gun tower, so I wonder if it also causes suppression. Even if it doesn't kill anybody, maybe it can slow them down . . .

Yes... I have been wondering about that too.

@Ravenlord.... please enlighten us. Do they have the slow effect? The same as the factory gats.