What squares can you siege from?
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Topic: What squares can you siege from?
Posted By: jewelmind
Subject: What squares can you siege from?
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2015 at 09:16
Hi, in deciding where to put my city, I'd like to know where I can be sieged from. Adjacent squares? Further away? What are the rules? 
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Posted By: Alcie
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2015 at 10:46
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You can only be sieged from the 8 squares adjoining your town. Most squares marked 'impassable' (swamps, volcanos, etc.) cannot be sieged from. There are a few exceptions down in broken lands with some of the 'not quite volcano' impassable large mountains (emerging mountaintop, active peak, obsidian mountain) which can be sieged from. These are the only exceptions I know about. Towns near oceans can normally occupy and be sieged from adjacent ocean squares (these are marked by food). The outer 'brackish' ocean coast of broken lands which has no food cannot be occupied or sieged from. |
Posted By: KillerPoodle
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2015 at 16:10
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It's normal to choose a square surrounded by impassable and plains. Plains make for easy slaughter of siege camps by cavalry. The downside of impassable is that you can't claim sovereignty on them. ------------- "This is a bad idea and we shouldn't do it." - endorsement by HM "a little name-calling is a positive thing." - Rill |
Posted By: jewelmind
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2015 at 23:07
How about food squares in rivers? Can a seige camp be set up there?
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Alcie wrote:Posted By: Brandmeister
Date Posted: 23 Jan 2015 at 23:16
| Yes. I believe that rivers and oceans count as plains. Can someone verify that? Lakes and lochs count as small hills. |