siege tower upgrade

[Heretiv]

Can siege tower upgrade to something else?

 

[4N4C0ND4]

IIRC they upgrade to trebuchet

 

[Heretiv]

oh great.
so the 6+ siege towers my friendly city state gave me will become my artillery army.

 

[mclericp]

how the hell u get siege tower @.@
what citystate was that?

 

[Heretiv]

Um, Budapest.
Not very close to Assyria but there you go.
Gave me 6 of the things.
Kinda rough since I aim for diplo win.

However I am next to Alexander so I think I may use them soon

 

[4N4C0ND4]

Don't forget that they do lose their bonus on upgrade. So it's actually better to save a tower till the end of the game for the constant +50% bonus

 

[vivalamexico]

Yeah, upgrade all but one. That way, all of them will get the sapper bonus even after upgrade, as long as they are near the original. Whatever you do DONT LET IT DIE!

 

[kaspergm]

Don't forget that they do lose their bonus on upgrade. So it's actually better to save a tower till the end of the game for the constant +50% bonus

This works better in theory than practice, however. Since Siege tower needs to be adjacent to city to provide the +50% bonus and it will die just anybody sneeze in its general direction from late medieval and onwards, in reality I find this is very hard to pull off effectively.