Walls: Love 'em or leave 'em

[Guest Protoss_Carrier]

A lot of people say you don't need walls in GB, like you did in AOE. Well, you do need walls, despite air units and ranged units.

1. They slow the enemy down. Even with air units, you can build those nice AA towers behind walls. Also, the AT-AT has range, but if you build the wall far enough from your town, you need not worry.

2. Security. I feel safer with walls than without them. Especially since I don't want enemy units marching into the center of my town. They're going to have to fight to get in!

[darthfergie]

I never really use them...at least until I play Eets...

[jeffdark]

ah good old walls. I love em..so cheap, and make me fell safe from the boogie rebles.

[Guest DarkTrooper]

walls are good and so are heavy walls i dont know if anyone does this but if u build a research center u can get a research for med turret and hvy wall. they help out a lot.

[jeffdark]

yup! imperial medium turrets look soo cool I can wait to see what the heavy one looks like:D:atat:

[Jedi_Knight]

Walls help keep enemies out and a stormtrooper behind a wall could probably take out a jedi or wookie beserker before the wall is crushed

[Guest dlayers]

I usually don't build walls until the very end...a strategy that often ends in my base being nearly destroyed.

[chrisw_30]

I love using walls...they are a great defence and will be better once we can upgrade to the heaviest wall....

 

I tend to only use walls once I am going smoothly in my current game and dont have any distractions

[Guest Admiral Thrawn]

I use walls to keep out raiders, mainly.

[Young David]

I don't use walls very much in AoK ... execpt while playing on Black Forest maps sometimes.

 

Walls aren't that hard to beat. They can be torn down pretty easy, and when you're in the slaughter will be no different.

 

And ofcourse walls can limit yourself. If you make your base too small, you might run out of space.

 

Usually I defend the center of my town with houses ... they are stronger ... and serve a purpose.

[Guest Admiral Thrawn]

In BF, I win 80% of the time so HAH!

[Guest Paladin]

And dont forget.

TECH LEVEL FOUR HAS SHIELD WALLS.

[Dagobahn Eagle]

May just be me, but it appears Artillery cannot fire over walls. There's one advantage. Plus, 70% of the game's units are ground units. The only disadvantage of the wall is that if you wrap it tight around your base, you haven't got enough space and will have to expand outside of it (building new walls), and if you build it too "loose", you will have a large area and it'll take longer to get troops out to the edge of the walls.

[Guest Master Yoda]

But if you build your walls and towers just right they can be nearly inpenetrable, assuming you have a decent army to back them up.

[GB_StormTrooper]

heck if i dont use walls, ill be killed so eaisally.............

[Zygomaticus]

i find walls useful cuz they slow down the enemy but i only use them when im in a real good position like when i have lots of resources

no wasting resources of hard times on walls

[Guest Paladin]

I agree with krkode. Also, sometimes it takes too long to make walls.

[Guest xwing guy]

I use walls whenever I get a chance to keep somebodys army out of my base because I just hate it when a bunch of strike mechs or something runs in and kills a bunch of my workers without having anything to stop them except some units and turrets.

[idiot00001]

I use them most of the time, and they have saved me many times.

[Guest Master Yoda]

They actually can save you rescources, if you dont have walls all the enemy has to do is send in a dozen men and he could take out a bunch of workers and some of your troops, while if you have walls with turrets he has to a mass a large army before he attacks you.