Siege Army on Pioneer Level?

[LadyMiska]

I have all my settings on Trailblazer Level but the Raiders, which I have set to Pioneer level.

A few moments ago, a Siege Army demanded Payment or they would attack (they have a catapult).

Is this normal for this setting level? I hope not! I was trying to avoid such things until I learned the Combat Mechanic. haha

Just checking. ;)

[Fido]

Sadly, peaceful is very boring as even animal threats are disabled, so it's not even fully giving you the proper survival aspects of the game. I hope someone is making a mod that makes the raiders less "hardcore tower defence"-y.

Even on pioneer, it sent me a ram on the second raid. Cavalry as soon as I built a stable, resulting in 240/376 villagers dead, and my army- and tower count reset to zero again.

The game is quite literally unplayable unless you're willing to min-max and don't care about how formulaic and one-note your towns look.

[LadyMiska]

I reloaded to my last save, which was 20 or so minutes prior to the Siege Army showing up, making sure I shifted plenty of gold from the Trading Post to the Vault/Global to meet their demands. If that window pops up, there is no way to access anything else until you answer the question on whether you'll pay the demanded gold, fight or ignore (I think those were the options).

I am in no way yet prepared for that level of Combat; I am in Tier 3 but don't even have Stables yet, just two Full Barracks with 4 Archers/8 Infantry in each.

So far, they haven't come back, but then again I've been on pause needing to tend to some things outside the game. However, I just popped in for a moment and now a Regular Raid is starting - no Siege Army as far as I can tell.

I think what triggered the Siege Army was hitting 800+ population, which happened just before the notification of their demands. Not sure.

[MedeaFleecestealer]

Originally posted by LadyMiska:

I have all my settings on Trailblazer Level but the Raiders, which I have set to Pioneer level.

A few moments ago, a Siege Army demanded Payment or they would attack (they have a catapult).

Is this normal for this setting level? I hope not! I was trying to avoid such things until I learned the Combat Mechanic. haha

Just checking. ;)

Yes, it's normal. You won't get so many raids with Pioneer setting, but you will get raids.

[DiViNe NeKO]

You want to get cavalry and send them after the catapults, the raiders do not hang back and defend the siege weapons they just charge at walls trying to break into your town so send cavalry and flank them easy counter

[KO]

I'm at year 44, 400pop and just went t4. And so far all of the raids are normal soldiers that are easily killed by my town center. I have zero army apart from 1 horseman which has no weapon/armor. Maybe just lucky or raid quality has something to do with some game factors..

[LadyMiska]

Originally posted by MedeaFleecestealer:

Originally posted by LadyMiska:

I have all my settings on Trailblazer Level but the Raiders, which I have set to Pioneer level.

A few moments ago, a Siege Army demanded Payment or they would attack (they have a catapult).

Is this normal for this setting level? I hope not! I was trying to avoid such things until I learned the Combat Mechanic. haha

Just checking. ;)

Yes, it's normal. You won't get so many raids with Pioneer setting, but you will get raids.

Raiders on Pioneer Level has given me Raids at least every other year for decades with and Increase in Raid Size each time; I'm currently in Year 126. I'm unsure as to how frequent it would be if Raiders was set to Trailblazer.

[LadyMiska]

Originally posted by DiViNe NeKO:

You want to get cavalry and send them after the catapults, the raiders do not hang back and defend the siege weapons they just charge at walls trying to break into your town so send cavalry and flank them easy counter

Thank You for the advice, I will have to do that. Maybe on my next run I'll get to it much sooner, I'm not sure this current run is going to hold out. I'm in Year 126 and my last Raid (146 Raiders, if I recall correctly) really hit my town hard. I would have only lost about a dozen or so villagers, but I was ticked off so I commissioned batches of my villagers to attack in waves; I have the Relic active that gives +4 Armor to Hide Coats.

Surprisingly, it went better than expected (lost about 150 out of 865), despite the fact that the Raid literally lasted several Months (from mid/late summer to early Spring in the next year). It was an incredibly long duration of time. I had never had a Raid last that long before.