You need to sound the alarms so your villagers are prepared to attack/defend. They will automatically enter the watchtowers. Make sure you keep an ample supply of weapons on hand (I arm everyone). Haven't had a problem with raiders due to that. Also helps I got dogs up the ass

Walls are pretty weak, and towers are definitely useless but as far as your specific battle.....

If you had a population of 80, it seems that usually about half the population are kids and another quarter are "old". So 54 Raiders most likely will win against that number from what I've seen. That's just been how it's worked for me so far.

Originally posted by Rux:

You need to sound the alarms so your villagers are prepared to attack/defend. They will automatically enter the watchtowers. Make sure you keep an ample supply of weapons on hand (I arm everyone). Haven't had a problem with raiders due to that. Also helps I got dogs up the ass

I've seen the alarm thing mentioned, but haven't found where or how to do that.

You can add a Defenses toolbar at the top of your screen to see Alarm On/Off + Gates Close/Open. Or you can go into Manage -> Defense on the bottom. Or hit F6.

Dunno. i just sound the alarm and kill 30+ raiders each time. I even dont close the gates. Loosing all the time 0 - 3 peple, watchtower and sometimes a donkey.. n exchange they bring me ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of spears, swords and bows which i dont have to produce myself and Im very thankful to them. Raiders are very Welcome! ))))

Yeah sound the alarm, highlight the people waiting together and right click the raiders, your people will attack. Also double right clicking makes them run ;) AND your people if not carrying a weapon will run back to their huts to arm themselves, so make sure you're not setting houses miles away !

Thanks guys, I wasnt aware of the alarm feature. Now the raiders are welcome to try

Anyone know about any Cheat Mods for steam in the making? or anything? i wanna have fun and free build and have some powerful army.

Originally posted by FeLoNiouS:

Walls are pretty weak, and towers are definitely useless

Towers do break quickly, but if you put enough of them together then they can really help thin the enemy out and save you from taking casualties. I found that raiders would only attack walls if there wasn't a gate nearby so it's actually better to spread gates around your town and then concentrate your towers around them (I was using up to 8 towers per gate by the end).

Gates are essential to defense not by their "stopping" ability but as point where your people gathers for waiting raiders. If you have no gates, people would first gather at the village center and only afte raiders start to crush, they'll move to fight.
But if you have a gate, just a single gate in the open field with no walls, if it is closer to raiders than village cnter or other gates, people would gather there. And raiders moves to it first.

Build a double wall, wood inside, stone outside, and put in two gates, the outside reinforced. That slows down every attack so far. Build lots of towers, and focus on composite bows, they slaughter the raiders. I usually have total raider KIA to nil. Build the walls first, then put in all the gates together, otherwise the villages will hang around the wrong gate.

I have one or two gates on each of the four sides of my village. Then I sound the alarm on the one closest to the raiders.

And yeah, towers fall way too fast to arrows and thrown spears. It would feel more realistic if they were resistant to non melee damage. Have axes and picks do bonus damage to make up for it.