Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-25344655-20160208193254

No longer can you tkae a small town becuase its a small town, Gettysburg was small, but it made a large battle. So from now on WHENEVER you take ANY settlement, there must be a siege, now, preperation will be given like this:

Say the Union wanted to siege a city of Umbar. i would say "My army sets up just out of arrowfire of the turrets, and readies the catapults. This would take a bit, so Umbar would say, "We set our archers on the wall and attack any who get close enough, while the infantry goes by the gate and extran infantry to the center of the city. After those turns are done, the siege begins, it starts by stating troops, general (Or captain) volunteers (Baically cannon fodder) and defensive/offensive capbilities (Turrets, burning oil, siege towers, catapults, etc) after thats done, the offensive goes first. He says: My catapults fire flame shot at the wooden wall for 20 damage, plus 10 flame damage, walls are now in tiers:

No walls: 0 HP

Palisades: 10 HP

Wooden walls: 30  HP

stone walls: 70 HP

Strongholds/citadel walls: 150 HP.

After the walls are down, the defenders go, they would say somethingl ike:

All turrets fire on the enemy.

A die would be rolled, the tougher the unit, the less you get to roll, for example:

Orc snaga: roll 5 times

mannish basic units: roll 3 times

Infantry: Roll 2 times

Elites: Roll once.

If the die lands on 1, you miss. If the die lands on a 2 or 3, you hit a few troops, 4 or 5, you get around a dozen, 6 you get a critical, killing several dozen.

After the offense gets into the walls, then they can choose where to put their troops, like: The Union uses an elite unit to destroy the archers and take the walls.

If the city is taken, then you have to quickly put down resistance, which is put into three catigories:

Tier 1: Small settlements and fishing villages: little resistance, not much trouble.

tier 2: Average cities, couple riots, a few firings on officers.

Tier 3: Open revolt, only used for capitals, you will have to divert alot of units to quell the riots, or do some good deeds.

Now, you can also quell these if you use the new culture system, which i will geto n in another post.

Last thing, public opinion: No longer can you slaughter tens of thousands without resistance from your home front. Now if you are winning a war, and have a merciful attitude, no sweat. If you win and you kill everyone, then they would begin to worry, if you begin to lose the war, they may make you end the war.

Theres the basics. But this will help make sieges more interesting. That was also just one scenario. 