What's the best usage of traps?

[_Flash_]

I'm curious how are you all using your traps.
Do you use your spike traps/mines at the entrance to your gates?
Do you spread your caltrops/barbed wire near your anti-tank guns/cannon towers?
Do you prefer to create kill zones, clustering your traps?
Or, any other better ways of using traps?

I haven't been having too much success with using traps, and so, I would like to learn from your experiences on how to put them to good use in Global Age.
Thank you

 

[Eddie F1]

I got tired of resetting them all for 250k a pop so plonked them all in a corner out of the way.

Saves a few million not having to bother upgrading them too. Bonus!

 

[Brand Marrow]

I have recently copied a very tough defensive base from Old Farmer Bob in which traps are placed in wall gaps, very deadly and fun to watch!

 

[Big Daddy]

I find traps more effective when grouped together in clusters inside the walls. Ambush traps especially, strength in troop numbers. Surround them with 3-4 Barded Wire traps to slow attacking troops forward progression. Love watching all those little guys jumping out at once and taking down the enemy, atleast distracting them while giving defending troops more time to spawn out of the buildings before being destroyed. A wall opening with Versailles and 2-4 Barb Wire spread around inside its radius slow down the troops that a couple of Mortars can do serious damage to the foot troops. For fun I place land mines just outside Versailles radius, the surviving tank trip the Landmines. What the Mortars do not kill the Anti Tank guns can finish off quickly. When it goes according to plan. But lately that area is avoided like the plague till end of the attacks. Do not overlook laying out your buildings with spaces in between them and the walls when ever possible. Keeps the enemy guessing where the traps are while your being scouted.

 

[Ravenlord]

I literally just wrote this in another post - literally!! Well, actually, actually ...


One thing I've tried recently (oh, all those months wasted!) is to remove some walls from your inner perimeter and make an easy-but-meandering path inside your base towards your rss - essentially saying to your attackers ''hey, look at all these open spaces in the walls - why not go through them?'' - and place traps in and near the open spaces. Then sit back & watch the carnage ....

I can't tell you how many times I've almost fell of my chair from laughter. Why didn't I do this earlier? The AI doesn't really ''think'' for itself - it will ideally take the path of least resistance - & I have many replays with raiders or rallied troops choosing the, understandably, easiest path to my oil - only to blow up on my landmines or get bogged down by defenders/barbed wire while my towers finish them off.
And when someone uses tanks it's even more side-splittingly hilarious ..... ''Oh the humanity!!'' .....

I have three inviting directions of attack with oh-so-inviting gaps in walls. At first I was hesitant to leave these gaps but I'll keep going as long as I get a laugh out of it. Once my traps are sprung I still have towers and garrisons ''around'' and even if I lose my oil on the 5th or 6th or whatever attack, I don't care - it's just such a hoot when I log on!!


Come to think of it, I can tell you how many times - it's 27 .....

 

[Old Farmer Bob]

Those are just to catch bears Brand Marrow

 

[Ravenlord]

Hey Old Farmer Bob - can anyone come in & visit & take some ideas? I wouldn't mind comparing your layout with mine ... !!

 

[Old Farmer Bob]

You are welcome to visit my base anytime Ravenlord just don't expect to live to tell the tail. Or you could join Hobbit Zombies

 

[Ravenlord]

Umm .... I think I'll do that Old Farmer Bob ................ pssst, someone get Bob his memory pills - I think he forgot to take them!!

 

[Brand Marrow]

Bob doesn't believe in memory pills Suto....

 

[Quang t legend]

I got tired of resetting them all for 250k a pop so plonked them all in a corner out of the way.

Saves a few million not having to bother upgrading them too. Bonus!

the ambush traps is probably costly but not the most effective so you may want to keep only them away.

 

[Max_imus]

the ambush traps is probably costly but not the most effective so you may want to keep only them away.

Are they the most expensive to reset?

 

[BV123]

Are they the most expensive to reset?

Not 100% sure but I think all cost the same.

IA traps cost @10K to rearm

 

[hoffncsu]

Old Farmer Bob - do you mind posting a screen shot? I can't seem to find you through player search

 

[Old Farmer Bob]

I am Bob in hobbit zombies hoffncsu. As for posting a screen shot-Nice try. Are you sure you aren't Ravenlord in disguise

 

[Birdman]

No he isn't bob. Believe me, l should know!!