The Redoubt

[Denquin]

When you have entered the gunpowder age of muskets and musketeer-ing and fancy stuff, you unlock the defensive tower known as the redoubt, which fires volleys of bullets (I mean, musket balls) at hordes of halberdiers. However, a ACTUAL redoubt is not a rapid-firing-area-spread tower, but rather a "...defensive position you can fall back upon.". Why a tower? And how many arquebusiers are in that tower to accomplish that fire rate? This isn't a serious question. Just wondering. (Not complaining)

 

[Denquin]

It looks small for such a great fire rate.

 

[EternalRookie]

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Plenty of room in redoubts for mass minions archers

 

[Denquin]

But... They shoot bullets!

 

[Djinn]

I've noticed also how weak the structure is when I smash it with minimal effort.

 

[Denquin]

But that's just balance. I'm talking about game logic

 

[Bigpapa97]

You make a good point, but I think what they were trying do was make a tower that can perform its function, and that's the best they could do. Doesn't make a whole lot of sense, but it works good for me. Maybe they could change its appearance a little in an update

 

[Denquin]

Man you have been commenting a lot on my posts... Not that it's bad or anything!

 

[David Pasquinel]

Redoubts are fortified placements (sometimes improvised on the battlefield, sometimes built as a fixed construction) where soldiers can fall back to.

Instead of a tall tower, the building should be something like a little fortified trench hole with guys firing organ guns that at Enlightment ownards are replaced by heavy machinegun guys.

 

[Bigpapa97]

Yeah I don't have much to do, and I really like this game

 

[Jasonian Empire]

A google image search shows a lot of them to be squat circular, square or pentagonal structures. The pentagonal ones seem to show up the most in image searches. Anyway, Dominations is not intended to accurately simulate historical battles. Most of the troops are not used in even vaguely the same way as they have been, historically. Pikemen, for example, are most effective at knocking down buildings. I'm pretty sure that's not the role they were most often employed in historically- although imaging the general ordering his men to put the tips of their pikes against the sides of the buildings and "PUSH!" does amuse, I must admit. lol