Mangonel Emplacement is a weapon emplacement in Age of Empires IV: The Sultans Ascend for the Outpost and Keep unique to the Byzantines and available starting in the Castle Age. After upgrading, the structure gains a defensive long-range mangonel attack. It replaces the Springald Emplacement available to other civilizations.
When researched at a Tower within the influence of a Cistern with the Dialecticus ability active, the research speed of this technology is 30% faster per water level at the Cistern.
Comparison[]
 Mangonel Emplacement
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 Springald Emplacement
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| Gold | 75 | 50 |
| Stone | 200 | 125 |
| Attack | 7 (x3) Siege | 40 Ranged |
| RoF | 4.12 | 3.88 |
| Attack Bonus | +24 | +40 |
Compared to a Springald Emplacement, a Mangonel emplacement notably also does area of effect damage. It fires three stones within a 0.75-tile radius spread, and each stone has a 0.875 tile radius area of effect with full damage scaling across the whole area.
Tactics[]
In general, because they do less raw damage at a slightly slower rate of fire, Mangonel Emplacements perform more poorly against single targets than Springald Emplacements, only dealing a maximum of slightly more than 50% as much damage as a Springald emplacement if the projectiles fall close enough together. One exception is against units with a large amount of ranged resistance, such as siege engines, because the Mangonel Emplacement deals siege damage. Another is vs Ships, which are likely to be hit by all 3 projectiles and take the full 21 + 72 bonus damage (93 total). They also deal much more total damage against large groups of units due to their area of effect damage.
Changelog[]
- Originally, each projectile dealt 8 damage. With update 10.0.576, this was reduced to 7 damage.
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