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How many people actually use these? I use them all the time, I NEVER see people use them. I usually play vs corps to 1+2 leuts. I build a fb near the enemy, have an artillary foundry and stables (I play french), and spam petards. You can get them instantly with engineering school and they take 5 to down a wall. While you do this massive wall killing, rush in with gendarmes to reduce his economy to rubble.

Not only are they good at putting down walls, but if you find a FB, you can use the gather point to right click on a barracks, click twice on the petard button, find another, do the same. It takes them out quickly.

 It just puzzles me, as no one I know has ever used them, except one person.

Derek_Zoolander:

How many people actually use these? I use them all the time, I NEVER see people use them. I usually play vs corps to 1+2 leuts. I build a fb near the enemy, have an artillary foundry and stables (I play french), and spam petards. You can get them instantly with engineering school and they take 5 to down a wall. While you do this massive wall killing, rush in with gendarmes to reduce his economy to rubble.

Not only are they good at putting down walls, but if you find a FB, you can use the gather point to right click on a barracks, click twice on the petard button, find another, do the same. It takes them out quickly.

 It just puzzles me, as no one I know has ever used them, except one person.

I use them quite often, im captain rank and when i use ottos in treaty pettards are one of my fav units to use, since jans can build a ton of barracks if you have alot of wood and then just make a ton of pettards and keep fb.  I was once called a cheater for doing that and the guy said he was gonna report me if i kept cheating with the pettards...lol.  I wish the asian civs had those types of units, id like to see india with petards.

pr0methi0us:

Derek_Zoolander:

How many people actually use these? I use them all the time, I NEVER see people use them. I usually play vs corps to 1+2 leuts. I build a fb near the enemy, have an artillary foundry and stables (I play french), and spam petards. You can get them instantly with engineering school and they take 5 to down a wall. While you do this massive wall killing, rush in with gendarmes to reduce his economy to rubble.

Not only are they good at putting down walls, but if you find a FB, you can use the gather point to right click on a barracks, click twice on the petard button, find another, do the same. It takes them out quickly.

 It just puzzles me, as no one I know has ever used them, except one person.

 

I use them quite often, im captain rank and when i use ottos in treaty pettards are one of my fav units to use, since jans can build a ton of barracks if you have alot of wood and then just make a ton of pettards and keep fb.  I was once called a cheater for doing that and the guy said he was gonna report me if i kept cheating with the pettards...lol.  I wish the asian civs had those types of units, id like to see india with petards.

China has them with allies (Brits I think)

Unless I'm mistaken, I thought the imperial howitzer damage is something like 825? That'd mean you'd need three. But a petard moves faster, and does its damage quicker. By the end of the game, 100 wood and whatever the other resource is isn't that much of a cost for me. It's all about taking down the walls as quick as possible.

 But, -shrug-, I do like them when you have a chokepoint and you can mash yours units together to cause a wall of units while your howitzers blast his walls down.

petards arent much used coz they are not really cost effective. It takes like 5 to kill a wall, but ur opponent will probably see more coming, so he will have a small army at ur broken wall, which kills petards easily as they die waayy too fast before they an do damage.

Petards cant be used at spots where u are fighting, coz they will be shot. They could be used for distraction maybe.. But id rather have mortars..