[349] Turtle Bridge/Tunnel

This one can either be used on the ground to create a Turtle Tunnel or as a bridge (in the air) to be used as a Turtle Bridge. Its the exact same way to build them in both cases, although the bridge version is better than the tunnel version for several reasons.






This is the raw setup. It is important to note that people can easily vault on top of it, so the foremost piece needs to have some sort of nose to keep enemies from simply jumping on top of it. For example something like this:


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* Broken Teambridges, need to be hit once so they become neutral Teambridges.

This "nose" would make it impossible to climb the structure aswell (pro archers). and would probably kill knights who try to squeeze through the hole.
Basically you "chain" any amount of these turtle tunnels in sucession like this:

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See? Totally looks like a turtle! The good thing about this is that teammates can easily walk through but enemies will have a hard time to do so.
Now imagine the exact same thing in the air and maybe with a few more walls added in the gaps.

Its also a pretty neat stable way to build bridges (as its pretty darn hard to bring it down (not a lot area for bombs to be thrown at) and archers can shoot down through the gaps, etc.

Well let me know what you think and have fun seeing your uncautious enemies torn to bits!

DISCLAIMER: This trap can be evaded, I mean it is possible for knights to get over this trap unhurt or only slightly hurt. They just gotta know what they are doing. Do not see this as a last defense (you got walls for that) and more as the kind of forward building that will at least slow down enemies and will destroy them if they make mistakes. Obviously less skilled knights (at least at jumping) will still find this impassable.

 

Awesome, Wyeth, I'm glad to have you back, hopefully for good! :D

Also, he is showing the concept here, you can add more back wall if you think it is unstable. Though the actual "nose" is pretty low to the ground, low enough to bomb. If that is what you're talking about.

 

I dunno what Luigi is talking about exactly... dropping it from the back I think? But if you are on top of it and have allready "boarded" it... ... sure then you can do whatever to it... breaking it, collapsing it... I am not quite sure how a knight or an archer would break it, except with a bomb. But see bombs... break everything if you are skillful enough, you can obviously strengthen the nose by applying some stone bricks to the back of it (so that say a bomb jumping knight can't easily break it after boarding it)... if you want a structure that is a good defense against bombs... there are others just for that. This one is NOT very bomb-secure at all... I am not only talking about destroying it but also about disabeling it... one bomb in the lower tunnel and its gone... at least one segment, since spikes are pretty weak towards bombs. Like I said the moment when this thing really shines is when its in the air as a bridge.

 

Just dropping here thing I had come up with some time ago:


It's like your tunnel trap but more expensive and ten thousand times more deadly.
Oh, the top line of bridges is there because this photo was taken back in 'glitched ceiling spikes' build.

 

I've been playing with something similar to you Ej:







Does the same thing but is a bit easier to fool people with I think.

 

this trap affects friendlies seemingly randomly. they swear they aren't holding UP as they move through the tunnel

 

@Jackard, It can't be, I tested it throughly. I walked through it over a hundred times, just back forth (both sides) and it never affected me. Neither was any other person I tried it with got affected without jumping. I will try it again and edit the threads with the results.


I ran through it 100 times from both sides, both as a knight and builder, in various angles and ways (shield gliding into it shielding while walking through it, etc.
I wasn't hit once, I conclude that your teammates were most likely ashamed to have jumped while walking below spikes or it was a weird glitchy occurance somehow. Not sure how that would work. Maybe lag induced?

Avavado spikes (I think thats what you got there on the ceiling?) sadly are not safe anymore, they affect teammates, albeit they don't kill them just hurt them once, I don't really think its worth the extra wood paid for in this build :/ (since the big advantage of acavado spikes was that they are perfectly safe for teammates and deadly to enemies).

The spikes on the bottom left and right aren't really needed anymore... ceiling spikes are extremely aggressive (enough to overkill normally), except with doors on one side it makes sense, since they can just do small jumps with slashes.

 

make ladders to the top of the building incase people are blocking it and you cant get past.

 

Have you tested it in combination with other structures? Could there be something throwing them off?

I walked through this unharmed over a dozen times, but there was one time I mysteriously died to it.

Edit: Pretty sure I was also using bottom spikes.

 

No idea - I tested it quite a bit now again... for an hour or so... with contrary... none of us got hurt while passing through a safe one. Not once.

 

ok i am playing with dumbs

 

Yeah while I was testing with Wyeth last night I learned how to jump through it as well. Not close to as consistently as you guys but I never played on any of your jump maps so I'm not as experienced.

But anyways I think you can pretty much count on this to get the job done.

I think you might be able to get hurt by this if you hit the corner of the ceiling the right way, but only the plebiest plebs could accomplish that.