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2.2: The Porcupine | [Back to the WarGuide]
Cavedog only put in two guard towers per race, except for Zhon who only has one, and Taros only has one good one. Even though, porcupining is still very possible, but just not as pretty as it was in TA. The Art of Porcupine is a dark, dangerous road you can take. Most players will dis you, because of the fact they can't kill you, and if they can, it would take around 4 hours. Other players (Me!) will find your weaknesses, and exploit them to the fullest. A porcupine is a mammal that has sharp quills to discourage predators from eating it. A Porcupine defence is a base that's sole purpose is to build defenders to keep the enemy away. A Porcupiner, or PORC, is the person who builds this porcupine base. A porcupine base mainly consists of walls, towers, and builders. Porcs usually start off with building walls all around their base perimeter. An easy way to build walls is to click on its build pic, hold shift and slowly drag walls across the screen. As you get more mana and builders, start building towers like mad. If your Zhon or Taros, just build Death Totems or Mage Towers right next to each other along the length of your wall. If your Aramon/Veruna, build alot of Strongholds/Bastions and leave a space between some/most of them. Fill these gaps with Gaurd/Watch Towers, which will take care or any air attacks. Start stacking units one right behind another; If the one in front gets killed, its got backup. Becareful when you do this though, because friendly fire does exist, so if your Aramon/Veruna you might just want Gaurd/Watch Towers as backup. These also provide more air defence. Most towers can shoot outside their Line of Site (LoS), so get a few scouts or cheap combat units to patrol outside your wall. This will clear out some Fog, and make your towers more effective. Also make sure you have some long range units or a small army of melee units to take out any long range units your enemy has, such as Catapults, Cannoneers, Fire Demons, Stone Giants, and Trebuchets. Once your enemy has realized that you are porcupining, he will try to send these kind of units non-stop to bring your defences down. Although the Porcupine might sound like a great defence, it does have one big drawback; Structures count towards the unit limit in TA:K, so you won't be able to make a huge attack force. A basic perimeter defence of a porc