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The ballista tower, or simply ballista, is a strong defensive structure built from a high tier archer tower, unlocked by the Ballista Hermit, and operated by one builder.

Building[]

Building a ballista requires the Ballista Hermit to be riding with the Monarch in front of an already built triplet archer tower. Once paid the price of six coins in New Lands or fifteen coins in Two Crowns, all archers on that tower turn back to their routine of hunters, and one or two builders come to build the ballista.

Manning[]

Once their work is done, one of them will jump up on the new tower, and will only get out of there if caught by the Greed.

Kingdom Two Crowns Kingdom Two Crowns – Similar to archers on towers, if the ballistas are inside the walls, builders will only occupy those that are relatively close to the outer wall.[2]

Direction[]

Just like the catapult, it can only shoot in one direction: always towards the wilderness, or in other words, from the town center towards the extremities of the island. It can never shoot backwards.

Firepower[]

It fires piercing bolts with high accuracy and an impressive range. It is a bit slow to reload, but can kill swathes of greedlings (including masked greedlings) with a single shot.

Kingdom: New Lands Kingdom: New Lands – The ballista has a range of about three-quarters of a screen,[3] and can kill as many floaters each of its shots pierce through.

Kingdom Two Crowns Kingdom Two Crowns – A single shot from a ballista cannot kill a floater with full health. But it still applies serious damage to all types of greed, including crown stealers. The ballista has the longest range of any weapon, able to hit ground ennemies at a range of 1 and 1/3 plazas[4]

Vulnerability[]

Just like archers on top of uncovered archer towers, builders are not immune to floaters while manning ballista towers. They can also be hit by boulders thrown by breeders.

But unlike archer towers, and similarly to catapults, if the Greed happens to destroy one side of the Kingdom, and approach the ballista from behind, the builder manning the tower won't be able to shoot at them.

History[]

Date       Game Platf Version
2021-11-16 Kingdom Two Crowns All 1.1.13
Change
The patch note reads: "Ballista towers are now far more accurate and deadly."
Increased range from 3/4 of a screen[3] to 1 and 1/3 plazas[4]
It's uncertain if the damage was increased.
2018-12-11 Kingdom Two Crowns All 1.0.0
Nerfed range and damage.
2016-08-09 Kingdom: New Lands All 1.0.0
Introduced.

Gallery[]

See also

Kingdom
structures

References[]

  1. This is an approximate value, calculated by counting hits in game. It is close to the correct number, but not exact.
  2. The workers and archers will leave towers too far away from the walls to be helpful defending. If the walls fall, they will fall back and enter those towers again.—Developer Alan Kertz on Steam. 25 May 2022.
  3. 3.0 3.1 Mesuring the horizontal distance in the game with "screens" is extremely imprecise. To know more about that see this thread.
  4. 4.0 4.1 Measured in 1.1.18
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