Good morning everyone,
This idea follows exchanges on the thread “Alternatives to double/triple walls”.
I wanted to suggest an idea that could potentially satisfy players who would like to stick to a single wall layer to organize their defenses without requiring another buff to stone walls.
An issue with walls today, is that you can’t do much while raiders are smashing them until they get inside your city. You can send your garnison, but sending it outside of the walls can be very risky, and towers are not very effective against invading armies.
The idea is a wall equipped with a boiling oil cauldron. Essentially, the item to build is just going to be a new type of wall - so the cauldron would be included when the wall is built.
It would work as such: this piece of wall has an effect radius (mostly covering its base). When raiders are entering in the radius, the cauldron would spray the oil (automatically, to make it simple) dealing high damage to raiders.
The cauldron would have a long cooldown phase before it could be triggered again.
Please, let me know what you think!