Siege Engines Defense and attack

When I spoke directly to SC, the response I had was that for "siege" orders no more than 30 siege engines should be firing per volley(once an hour); However, he mentioned that for an "attack" order all engines will fire on a successful attack.  I have not retested this the "siege" maximum since I submitted my petition. 

I have tried a "raid" only once and there was no firing from my siege engines but others have told me that they have had their siege engines fire.

Surviving siege engines fire after a successful direct attack, and with the accuracy level claimed in their unit stats (average 6.5% for wall siege, 33.25% for building engines).  In the case of direct attacks, all engines fire whereas engines in siege operations are limited to something like 30 or 35 engines firing per volley.

It is also plausible that surviving siege engines will successfully fire after a failed raid attack, but I've no knowledge of this being tested.  Some feedback from anyone who has tested would be useful.

http://arcanum-illyria.com/wiki/Siege_Units

Rill wrote: I believe that siege engines on normal attack "fire" even if the attack is unsuccessful.  I have only seen this happen once, and there were only two catapults, one of which missed. Even in a successful attack with siege, most of the siege engines will miss.

Some of my calculations to add to Rill's posts:

33% hit rate average for siege engines with "attack" orders based on 50 runs using 150 siege engines per run. 


Edited by Anjire - 29 Mar 2012 at 19:27

yea, i think the speed should be low, not super low, super low is very very slow :P but if only used against troops then slow is enough, ofcourse which speed is debatable :P 

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