How Multiple Projectiles Work In AoE2 

kipchaks and cho ko nus' secondary projectile also deal 0 melee damage, which turns to a +3 against rams due to their negative armor, that's why they kill them 10x faster instead of 4x

Double crossbow actually does 50% of the damage of the original projectile with a slight spread added so that they don't always follow the exact path as the first projectile. This is according to the wiki and SotL's video on ballista elephants not any in game testing by myself but unless the devs make a change in the last year or so it should still function the same way.

I think one example that should bear mentioning is garrisoned watch towers. Their secondary projectiles do bonus damage against stone defense buildings, but the primary projectiles don't, which is why garrisoning has a disproportionate impact on who wins a tower war.

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Kipchack and Chu Ko Nu extra arrows actually deal 3 pierce + 0 melle damage. In most cases that ends up beeing 1 dmg/extra arrow, but in a few cases it is more, e.g. vs siegeram with +3 melee armor the extra arrows will deal 3 damage each (3 pierce atack gets fully blocked, the 0 melee damage deals 3-(-3) = 3 damage).

Nice topic, I would’ve liked to see talk on towers and their extra arrows too. Also, it would’ve been nice if attack rate was factored in when saying that the one shooting extra projectiles does more damage, since they often fire slower.

Very useful AoE2 guide! Thank you.

Longboat and that new Galleon-like ship?

The video increased my understanding of the mechanic a lot, thank you

thx 4 the vid!

I wish u explained how garrisoned unites affect the attack and projectiles of castles and tc

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This video is perfect. Thx Hera, what u do for the comunity 👏👏👏👏 u and viper, are amazing for us 😌😌

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It's mainly the 0 melee attack of the ckn and the kipchaks that make them so good vs rams. Rams have -3 melee armor. So 0-3=-3. So the extra projectiles are doing 3 damage to the ram. So for ckn, 7 damage per volley, and 13 with the elite upgrade.

It might be worth mentioning that there are some other examples where you got multiple projectiles, which all deal full (or nearly full) damage: → garrisoned towers/towncenters/castles → (after recent changes, if I remember right) the organ gun.

¿El segundo proyectil del skirmisher tiene bonus contra el arquero y piquero o solo hace 1 de daño?

The skirms for the Mayans is huge! Great and cheap way to counter siege to some degree now

You should have briefly mention the maths behind projectiles of tower, castles etc.

THANK YOU finally after idk possibly 10 years I finally understood multiple projectiles 😅

Hey guys, spirit of the Hera here.

It used to be for a very long time that when garrisoning units with extra projectiles nly the last projectile was counted so Chuks and Kipchaks were horrible when garrisoned in a tower or Castle. That was changed like a year ago and now the total damage of all projectile counts for the extra arrows of the buildings. While normaly the DPS of a unit gets converted into tower or Castle arrows Chuks and kipchaks likely increase the damage output since their extra arrows have a nominal damage of 3 but that usually get reduced by armor to 1. This is why Chuks in Teuton bombard Towers fire 3 shots.very relevant for Team Arena 1111111

Is this the same kinda thing for organ guns? I've started playing the Portuguese a fair bit but dont really understand their mechanics.

Well, I didn't know that. 😊 Perfect!

It's a bit strange that the graphic for the extra projectiles also get the fire from the chemistry upgrade, although it doesn't do the extra chemistry damage.

Ok cool video but what about organ guns? Doesn't those fire multiple shots as well???

If the second projectile hits a target that the first projectile didn’t hit, would it be full damage or just one? Like that scorpion shot sometimes moved away from the first projectile

Does the extra projectile from mayan skirmishers deal bonus damage against archers ?

No amount of extra projectiles will deter me from making huskarls 11

You missed organ guns, mangonels, armanian galley and hussite wagons. Also, can you please explain the multiple projectiles of defensive structures.

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Im surprised how much more I know about this game than a top 3 player. (Dont get mad Hera luv u 😘)

3:40 alrighr wheres spirit of the law heras givin two +50% dmg stats and both made my head hurt to try to figure out how he got those numbers

Damn i thought this was a Spirit of the Law video

liked !!

Can you explain extra arrows for TCs and towers?

2:28 i knew maths was backwards !

How well does a chu ku nu with a sarrassin ally break walls then ? :D

What about organ guns ???

Well this is simply wrong. The secondary projectiles of all of those units except the Mayan Skirmisher deal more than 1 damage, though in many cases, the damage is so low that it isn't higher than the opponents armor.

Yeh, we know how it works, sporitofthelaw covered this literally years ago

Hera tryna put SOTL out of business

Broke: multiple projectiles rule Woke: multiple projectiles suck Bespoke: multiple projectiles can be very effective on specfiic scenarios

its simple: in aoe2 it works like 💩 how it should work: 1. miltiple arrows with full damage each 2. random accuracy for each projectile like arambai 3. be great vs group of units

organ gun？

He forgor about Armenian ship

I watch on my phone and the unit stats were barely visible. Please increase the size/font for further videos.

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Ok cool video but what about organ guns? Doesn't those fire multiple shots as well???