Talk:Castle (Age of Empires II)/@comment-77.251.151.97-20151223152155

An empty castle fires 5 arrows, not 4. The number in brackets refers to the additional arrows besides the first arrow. A watch tower garrisoned with a single villager for instance will say (1) but fire 2 shots.

This can also be verified by opening map editor and pitting a post-imperial castle from a civ that gets bracer and chemistry (such as the Britons) against a post-imperial hunnic 2H swordsman (the huns don't get champion or plate mail). The castle then has 11+4 damage whereas the Hun 2H has 60 HP and 1+2 Pierce armour, meaning he'll take 12 damage per shot, taking exactly 5 arrows to kill.

And indeed, the Hunnic 2H will occasionally die in a single volley (if all arrows manage to connect), something which would not be possible with a volley of only 4 arrows.