Talk:Castle (Age of Empires II)/@comment-43582698-20200103053541

It seems like Castle has an attack bonus against stone defense armor class. From my test, it's roughly 11 per arrow, and for some reason, the main arrow doesn't seem to be doing this extra damage. I don't think this damage "ignores" armor because I never see a Post-Imp Barrack taking that amount of damage from a single barrage from castle.

My test, for example, with Castle shooting 15 arrows per volley, dealing 184 damage to a Guard Tower with Masonry.

Guard Tower with Masonry has 9 (8+1) pierce armor, so the castle should be doing 11*15 - 9*15 = 30 damage, but Guard Tower actually took 184 damage, which means there are 154 extra damage. And a funny fact: 154/11 = 14.

One more proof is, when I spamming F3 to slow it down, the first arrow actually did just 2 damage (11-9 I guess) to Guard Tower with Masonry, but all following arrows are dealing 11 damage respectively.

More info about the castle's damage calculation is appreciated.