Talk:X-Bow/@comment-25082556-20141018100230/@comment-2170536-20141018171612

Every defense is worth getting. It's not like you can only have 20 defenses total, and therefore buying an X-Bow potentially prevents you from buying something else. Even if the X-Bow were a weak defense (and it is not), it still would be better than not having it.

Range isn't its only strength. Yes a Cannon has higher DPS, but the X-Bow can hit air troops, and its rapid rate of fire means it switches targets much more efficiently than the Cannon (meaning the will actually kill multiple tier 1 troops quicker even though it has slightly less DPS).