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Advance Notice - Limited Siege Warfare

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Topic: Advance Notice - Limited Siege Warfare

Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Subject: Advance Notice - Limited Siege Warfare
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2010 at 23:08

LIMITED SIEGE WARFARE

With effect from Thursday the 8th of April, we're going to reduce the pre-requisite requirement for both the:

Siege Engineering technology, and the
War Machines technology

to Barracks Level 15.

For those who haven't looked this far ahead, Siege Engineering allows you to build fearsome weapons of war, capable of tearing down an opponent's City Wall.

The War Machines technology allows you to build even more massive and terrifying machines - capable of flinging missiles over the walls of your opponent's city and destroying the buildings inside.

This means that players will be able to build Siege Engines and War Machines with Barracks Level 15 onwards (if they have sufficient Siege Blocks to build the unit).

Whilst you cannot deploy Siege Engines or War Machines in a Siege Encampment (and thereby capture or raze a city) until you have Barracks Level 20, from Barracks Level 15 onwards you will be able to attach these units to an attacking army.

Armies sent out against another City, operating under standard Attack orders with Siege Engines or War Machines attached to the army will be able to destroy opponents' walls and buildings with the effect that:

Each attacking Siege Engine attached to the army will level down the target's City Wall by 1 Level, if the attackers are victorious

Each attacking War Machine attached to the army will level down one building, selected at random, by one level, if the attackers are victorious

If the attackers are not victorious because a sufficient force of defenders are present - or they run into a defensive Rune of sufficient power to kill all the units in the attacking army - then all the attacking siege weaponry is destroyed

The order for Attack alone - not Raid, Blockade, or heaven forbid, Reinforce Shocked

- is the only valid army order for using this kind of limited siege mechanic.

Siege units will be counted as defenders - with a zero defence value - if they are caught sitting at home or in an encampment/occupy situation. So, if you build them, you really, really need to defend them.

Siege Engines and War Machines cost a substantial amount of resources (Siege Blocks) to construct. They are also very expensive to maintain as they require expertly trained engineers to operate and maintain them.

These siege units will move slowly, and the army moves at the pace of the slowest unit, so defenders should have enough time to either organise a defence... or take what's coming to them.

We hope you like.

Replies:

Posted By: HonoredMule
Date Posted: 04 Apr 2010 at 23:51

We do.

Posted By: Diablito
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2010 at 00:19

The White Company will not lumber themselves with such large and bulky siege machines, like television, computers and the internet before them this will be nothing more than a worthless fad.

Soon enough our trade empire will dominate this game, he who controls the wood, controls the universe.

Posted By: HonoredMule
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2010 at 00:25

Interesting choice of key resource, wood. I have been thanked profusely for the Gift of Wood myself.

Posted By: Diablito
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2010 at 00:27

There is nothing like handling a long thick shaft of newly treated wood.

Posted By: bow locks
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2010 at 09:46

excellent, one thing i may have mentioned before though -

alliance should get a notification when siege units are out to attack corp member's cities.

Posted By: Gila
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2010 at 13:37

Diablito wrote:

There is nothing like handling a long thick shaft of newly treated wood.

Good lumber is hard to find...

Posted By: waylander69
Date Posted: 05 Apr 2010 at 19:51

its very hard to find...just like my 450 settlers for my next city lol

Posted By: Wuzzel
Date Posted: 06 Apr 2010 at 11:01

I cant wait!
I am getting excited!
I am going to ... buckets.

Posted By: Parennis
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 16:54

Where is it!?

Where is it!?!!

Posted By: Wuzzel
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 17:11

I am waiting to erupt of excitement too Parennis.
But the day is not over.
Give the people of Illyriad some time Beer

Posted By: GM Stormcrow
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 17:38

x2 <--- Hold them. It'll be ready when it's ready.

EDIT: ETA 2 hrs from now?

Posted By: Wuzzel
Date Posted: 08 Apr 2010 at 18:43

I cant hold it SC!!!!!
Let them go!!!