RBP2 Lurker Discussion Thread - No Players!

[regoarrarr]

Two reasons for the spear:

1) (real reason) They probably only had a spear available.

2) In MP, unless you've got a forest hill or want to devote the hammers for an axe+spear sentry net, which is expensive if you need to watch 6 different hills, your sentry unit is pretty easy to kill by using its counter. So an archer could be killed with a sword, spear with axe, you get the idea... The reason we use spears is because they're the only sentry that forces the enemy units to at least show themselves. With an archer, axe, or even sword the enemy can be clever with movement and often kill a sentry with a pair of horse archers without you seeing the attack. Only a spear forces the enemy to walk an axe up, letting you know what direction the attack came from and how many units were on the tile.

Anyways, since Speaker is on the team there may just be a bit of residual ladder-play mentality leaking through.

While your points are all still valid, Sullla's sentry on the hill is a chariot (which can be killed with a spear)