#Reduce Blockhouse + Watchtower Population Requirement

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Okay I'll just be blunt; needing 2 people to man MASSIVE structures such as the Garrison and Armored Fortress makes sense.

However, both the Blockhouse and Watchtower are smaller structures, with smaller defense radii, and are eventually outclassed by the Lightning Tower (which only requires 1 population anyhow and STILL beats them in range and space taken up on the map [2x2 as opposed to 3x3]).

To make both of these structures more feasible to keep around [looks wise/battle wise].... just require 1 population instead of 2.

That and it makes no sense that Pillbox -> Armored Pillbox is just 1 population, but the next step up, Blockhouses, requires 2x the manpower to man it.

At that point you're stuck deciding between 2 pillboxes/armored pillboxes or 1 blockhouse, when they should each be direct, CLEAR upgrades over each other.

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humble plume
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only someone with 150 defense buildings on their base would make this suggestion

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Am I wrong though?

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Why do you need 2 guys to man a watchtower

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blockhouse I kinda get since you have to point guns out the other way too and there's 2 ports of guns active in battle

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but like

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what's the other guy doing in the watchtower as one dude's sniping

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filling jarate bottles?

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I mean i guesss there's 2 gun ports but in that case just double the damage

humble plume
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elite fortress knowledge

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i mean the pillbox has 4 guns with 1 pop so thats fair

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Yeah

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exactly

noble nimbus
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To be pedantic, probably comms and spotting. Solo snipers aren't as common as the game makes them out to be.
But yeah, that's just an excuse. Greedy defensive structures, sucking up my population for no discernible gain. Surely there's no problem with relying on militia and reactive strikes!

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make the garrisons actually do something in encounters ffs

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Hey I kinda want to build a blockhouse

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but what's the point if I can build 2 lightning towers instead for the same pop cost

bright igloo
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Don't forget that Flame Turrets, Chemical Sprinklers, Lightning Towers and Armor Mulchers are all automated defenses and yet still require 1 pop for some reason...
By that logic the Ancient Artifact should need 1 pop since Percival literally says that it needs to be activated manually, but when has anything in this game made sense?

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Sighhh

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it hasn't

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also the flame turret's completely outclassed at this point by... everything (hell the unmanned flame turret is a significantly better investment) and the armored mulcher is...

... costly for just defending 10 spaces and you NEED to build 2 of them (????) for a mission.

Chem sprinkler is... uh. Its there?

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None of these are useful

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with the ancient artifact, i guess its the player who activates it manually when they collect the tax?

humble plume
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flame turret is even outclassed by the others in pixel density

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provided they even load on iOS and aren't a fuzzy mess

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yeah

pale ferry
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The one guy supposed to hold both guns in the block house

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hey rambo did it

humble plume
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those aren't even pecs anymore