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[Leonidas]

I've been away from this game for about a year.  Are siege engines still pretty much useless?

[Warlord255]

With the proper contrivance, a well-orchestrated ballista bolt will make just about anything stop living.

However, they cannot cross Z-levels, and this makes them useless to me.

[Magua]

Can't cross z-levels, can only fire orthogonally, siege engineers tend to run away from monsters.

But that's just part of the challenge!

[PencilinHand]

On the plus side, siege engines have been reported as hitting things as much as "3 screens" away(I am guessing that is at least over 30 tiles and probably close to 45 tiles).

But yeah, about the only thing catapults are good for is an easy Legendary and public welfare.  But ballistas can kill anything(assuming it is firing down a 1 tile wide hall that is really long), making them ideal for "happy fun times."

[Yanlin]

But if we let them fire on different Z levels they'd just have more directions to miss in!

[Footkerchief]

But if we let them fire on different Z levels they'd just have more directions to miss in!

They'll almost certainly get a base accuracy boost to compensate.

[Jay]

I can't see a legendary siege engineer shooting a ballista in a wrong direction.
At all. (As in, skill should add accuracy)
And I'm pretty sure that ballistae are designed to prevent vertical failure at all.
Even though they're aimed slightly upwards to begin with to compensate for that omnipresent force called gravity.
Hmm.
Ballista isn't a registered word on Firefox.