What do Wood Elves use for Siege Artillery? How do they take down towers and walls?

[demontrace]

Is it treemen? Forest Dragons? I'm wondering how do I take down a castle without waiting it out, or getting infantry to storm the walls on siege towers. The only other guys I played were Empire, and with them it was easy enough to understand Cannons out-range towers and are anti-tower and anti-wall, and their Rocket Batteries are like catapults or other equivalent siege weaponry.
It makes me think I'm either required to use Heroes to break the walls, or have a bunch of Treemen facetank a bunch of towers while they beat them down. I have no idea how this goes.

[Gingusa]

a lot of factions don't have something that can kill walls directly, you can use a big treeman or tree lord to break down doors but not towers or wall towers, and if they take dmg going in you can just use regrowth to heal them anyway, once you are inside the men on the walls should climb down anyway so the wall towers will stop shooting, the other towers in the settlement can be taken out by any ranged unit or flying units. You could always get artillery from ally recruitment. besides, wood elves have some of the strongest units in the whole game. just think of the lack of artillery as a balancing factor. also you don't lose any stats for fighting in the woods as wood elves lmao

[TheSilverRaven]

If you're just afrer the siege attacker trait to be able to launch the attack ASAP, I think treekin are the lowest tier unit WE can get with siege attacker. If you want actual artillery, you're going to have to use allied recruitment. Outside of that, you're just going to have to rely on magic and high volumes of arrows.

[Gingusa]

don't forget you can view the factions units and spell roster menu to view all units any faction has and look for the ones with siege attacker skill icons

[Basarab Laiota]

just break the gate

[Invisible]

Lots of LL have siege attacker now. Durthu doesn't care about walls or gates.

[SomeGuy1]

Originally posted by Of Iron and Gold:

You can use Treemen to destroy walls but not towers and that's all you got. Wood Elves can't destroy towers. If you want artillery you'll have to use allied recruitment.

You can storm the gates to get out of tower range, use a lord/hero to tank the towers while your archers shoot or position your archers in a blind spot of a tower.

Whatever you decide to do, don't ever wait on a siege for any reason. Either attack immediately or don't attack at all. Siege towers and rams are completely useless.

Archers and flyers can destroy towers. WE are good at those.

[SpeaksTooFast]

Originally posted by Basarab Laiota:

just break the gate

This is what I do.

If you want artillery you will need to use allied recruitment.

They have a number of ways to get a siege attacker in the army.
-Treemen Lords
-Elf Lords on their dragon mounts
-Their own units with siege attacker
-Any ogre or other allied unit with siege attacker, I did this a lot in the last game while I was leveling up my Elf lords to get them their mounts

[DaBa]

Yep, I don't think a faction that has creatures strong enough to break walls and gates on their own, and flying units that can just ignore fortifications, would ever care about anything like a siege equipment.

Also, main enemy of the wood elves would be beastmen and they fight them underground. Other than that, it's not like they just march out of their woods and want to conquer Bretonnian castles, they are perfectly content staying in their tree houses. Siege weapons are simply not their style, or something they'd have much use for.

[Aleera]

Originally posted by SomeGuy1:

Archers and flyers can destroy towers. WE are good at those.

Those are only the rebuildable towers. We're talking the towers which are part of walled sections, like in capitols.

The only unit that can attack those towers in the Welf roster, is Orion as far as I know. Due to his javelin being a artillery shot.

[SomeGuy1]

Originally posted by Rianne:

Originally posted by SomeGuy1:

Archers and flyers can destroy towers. WE are good at those.

Those are only the rebuildable towers. We're talking the towers which are part of walled sections, like in capitols.

The only unit that can attack those towers in the Welf roster, is Orion as far as I know. Due to his javelin being a artillery shot.

oh, not even flyers with siege attacker like dragons?
they still stop those from shooting by clearing out the hostiles from their base on the walls.

[Aleera]

Originally posted by SomeGuy1:

oh, not even flyers with siege attacker like dragons?
they still stop those from shooting by clearing out the hostiles from their base on the walls.

The towers that are part of the walls. You know the ones you can break with hero actions on the overworld map, cannot be attacked by fliers. The only melee unit's that can must have wallbreaker as a trait. (all Ogre's for instance)

[DeepDorkFantasy]

Siege equipment? Rams? Walls? Towers?
You are pretty new for the Warhammer universe, I see.
All you need is just to pull a ladder out of your a$$
Also, everyone knows the formula of TWWH:
Angry and very loud brunette woman on a horse >>>> 70 physically developed and trained men with a several tons battering ram

[demontrace]

Thank you for the responses.