Guild Wars 2

Just wondering as to why people keep putting arrow carts or catapults behind the door and not on the wall?

It’s to counter rams and golems, pretty much. The arrowcarts can still damage anyone standing right up against the gate, and while the catapult can’t hurt rams through the gate anymore (supposedly), it can still hit other people with its splash damage and interrupt them. Also the catapult can still shoot over the wall in some instances, as a bonus.

And while things on the wall can be reached and destroyed by AoE damage or ballistas from upper positions, the stuff behind the door is quite save.

This is an effective strategy against a much larger zerg that is going to Aoe the walls and take out the siege you have up there.

Logically it seems silly to aim the arrow cart or catapult at your gate from the inside, but at the very least this will still give you a chance to buy time for additional defenders to arrive.

The sad part is all too often the additional defenders arrive and try to use their hand held weapons first rather than the strategically placed siege.

I would love to see Anet address the canon fixtures however. The way they sit on the walls limits their use a great deal, and the one at Wild Creek tower in EB is all but useless. They need to be raised up on some sort of turret so they can be a bit more effective.

The other reason to place sige behind the door is, if the door is destroyed, a good placement of sige can wipe the attackers as they come through the bottleneck.

Behind the door is easy to counter insert dragons tooth and cats behind gate don’t kill seige anymore

You can hit the enemy at the gate but the enemy at the gate cant hit your siege defens.

frostshade.3617:

Behind the door is easy to counter insert dragons tooth and cats behind gate don’t kill seige anymore

The damage is negligible, the knock back is what really makes catas effective.

Also, if you put Arrow Carts in range of Dragon’s Tooth you are doing it horribly wrong.

Rok.5260:

Just wondering as to why people keep putting arrow carts or catapults behind the door and not on the wall?

Because its generally the safest place to put siege that can defend against people attacking the gate.

The way the game currently is setup walls is generally a bad place to put siege unless you have a lot of it and they are manned. This is because attackers have a big advantage with their aoe on walls and the ability to just knock people off of walls.