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The type of [[wood]] that is used for the arrow impacts its strength, where heavier types of wood such as [[glumprong]] or [[blood thorn]] are better. Both ballista arrowheads and the completed ballista arrows are stored in Furniture/Siege Ammo stockpiles. | The type of [[wood]] that is used for the arrow impacts its strength, where heavier types of wood such as [[glumprong]] or [[blood thorn]] are better. Both ballista arrowheads and the completed ballista arrows are stored in Furniture/Siege Ammo stockpiles. | ||
| − | For such a big, cumbersome, inaccurate weapon, wooden ballista arrows are surprisingly ineffective, dealing only comparatively minor amounts of blunt damage. Metal ballista arrows, on the other | + | For such a big, cumbersome, inaccurate weapon, wooden ballista arrows are surprisingly ineffective, dealing only comparatively minor amounts of blunt damage. Metal ballista arrows, on the other leg, are extremely lethal, and can kill two fully-grown [[elephant]]s standing in a line if the arrow hits squarely; any [[goblin]]s you hit will be smeared all over the space on which they stood. |
Creating arrowheads is tedious and resource-consuming, and both [[catapult]]s and [[ballista]]s train the [[siege operator]] skill, at the same rate, when used. Since [[catapult]]s use [[stone]]s you can literally pick up off of the ground, they're a much better practice platform for your operator, whereas a ballista armed with ''metal'' arrows is a much stronger actual weapons platform. As such, there's never much reason to produce wooden ballista arrows. | Creating arrowheads is tedious and resource-consuming, and both [[catapult]]s and [[ballista]]s train the [[siege operator]] skill, at the same rate, when used. Since [[catapult]]s use [[stone]]s you can literally pick up off of the ground, they're a much better practice platform for your operator, whereas a ballista armed with ''metal'' arrows is a much stronger actual weapons platform. As such, there's never much reason to produce wooden ballista arrows. | ||