Newbie’s Guide to Your First (Assisted) Siege
This guide is useful only for the newbie who would like to
besiege an inactive/abandoned town, usually for his/her third or fourth town.
It assumes that your kindly alliance mates will be doing the heavy lifting of
siege work.
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Preparation: Please make sure you have reviewed Rill's http://forum.illyriad.co.uk/seiging-an-abandoned-town-are-ther-any-how-tos_topic2620.html" rel="nofollow - Quick Guide to Sieges and Ladyluvs' video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwhhVG8joBg&feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow - How to Siege
o Research:
You need Siege Encampment technology.
o Military:
You probably need about ~200 Chariots for the siege itself, and you may want
backup for ghosts. Note that if you are being assisted, you DO NOT need to
build a siege engine in order to take the town.
o Build:
The above means that you need a L20 barracks, which implies storage space of
~325k per res.
o City
Size: Keep in mind the city size you must have to take a marginal town: 2000
for a third town, 5000 for a fourth.
o Diplomacy:
make sure that you understand what exactly is in the city from spy, scout and
thief reports. It is usually best to clear the city of troops before you siege
it.
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Siege
o Ensure
that your siege army arrives at the location before the catapults of the player
assisting you. Once you have the siege technology, you can send an army with
those orders. You need to set a time limit for the siege. Set the maximum.
o Ensure
that your army and the assisting army land on different spots. You will bump
each other if you land on the same spot.
o Once
the siege engines arrive, they will set up for 12 hours and then begin bombing the
target city once per hour. Some engines will hit, some will miss; later in the
siege more will hit. Each hit reduces a level of a building, and the city loses
that amount of population. Beg your heavy lifter for siege reports, which s/he
will get every hour.
o When
the city’s population is 25% of what it was when the siege began, either the heavy
lifter will need to recall his or her catapults or you will need to storm the
city. If one of those doesn’t happen, the cats will continue to bomb the city.
o Note
that you can continue to thieve the city as it is being bombed.
o Rumors
exist that if a player has troops in production when s/he abandons, those ‘ghost’
troops appear suddenly during a storm of the city. Have extra troops on hand to
avoid problems should this occur.
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Aftermath
o Bask
in the glow of your (assisted) victory.
o Thank
your heavy lifter profusely (prestige works, and cows work too. Rill assures me
that everyone likes cows).
o Recall
your troops with a messenger sent to your new city.
o Rebuild
the city (unless you razed it, but at this point in the game that would be
unusual for you to do).
Many thanks to Thor, Rill, Thunderbum and others for their
input and advice on this.
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