Siege Ambush - Criteria?

[Teralitha]

The opportunity to actually do this seems quite rare. Most of the time the option is greyed out. Out of many defending sieges i had the chance to do an ambush ONCE, it was great. It was like a mini siege.

But now Im wondering, what must happen to make the ambush option available?

[ĥĉŭĝĥĉŭ]

siege ambushes seem to only happen if the enemy has built something that can't be destroyed by your city/castle weapons like the battering ram and towers, so you have to go out manually and rip those apart vs a fraction of the enemy army before the main army reinforces them, you can end the fight any time but it only counts as a victory when you destroy all the enemy weapons and game says to do tactical retreat.

You can also be knocked out in this phase and still win. I think it turns into a regular siege fight if you don't end it manually but your cavalry are on their horses in this mode and you can't place troops where you want them on the map so its probably not the best idea to let it run.

[Teralitha]

Well thats not true at all. Ive seen battering rams and towers get destroyed by wall catapults many times. But I get what you mean. i guess that would mean most of the siege defenses ive been in the enemy didnt build anything.

[flyingscot1066]

Originally posted by Teralitha:

Well thats not true at all. Ive seen battering rams and towers get destroyed by wall catapults many times. But I get what you mean. i guess that would mean most of the siege defenses ive been in the enemy didnt build anything.

They can only be destroyed during the assault phase, not the investment phase.

[Xequilibrium]

Originally posted by Teralitha:

Well thats not true at all. Ive seen battering rams and towers get destroyed by wall catapults many times. But I get what you mean. i guess that would mean most of the siege defenses ive been in the enemy didnt build anything.

In noticed that if you sit out the siege after a while u get very short chances to sally out and ambush them. i think it's a bug cuz the time to click ambush is very short.

[Teralitha]

Originally posted by Xequilibrium:

Originally posted by Teralitha:

Well thats not true at all. Ive seen battering rams and towers get destroyed by wall catapults many times. But I get what you mean. i guess that would mean most of the siege defenses ive been in the enemy didnt build anything.

In noticed that if you sit out the siege after a while u get very short chances to sally out and ambush them. i think it's a bug cuz the time to click ambush is very short.

has it been reported?

[Xequilibrium]

Originally posted by Teralitha:

Originally posted by Xequilibrium:

In noticed that if you sit out the siege after a while u get very short chances to sally out and ambush them. i think it's a bug cuz the time to click ambush is very short.

has it been reported?

Dunno, not by me atleast.

[ShadowFox]

Think you need to have a lot of cav in defense army cause it seems to deploy only cav (for me at least this is the case)

[Teralitha]

Ah, perhaps having more cavalry is a factor. I usually dont have alot of cav in my garrison, we shall see.

[Xequilibrium]

Originally posted by Teralitha:

Ah, perhaps having more cavalry is a factor. I usually dont have alot of cav in my garrison, we shall see.

Cav is necessary because ambushes always happen by cav. It's a quick sally out to destroy siege engines and a few troops. They're allot of fun to do.

[ShadowFox]

Originally posted by Xequilibrium:

Originally posted by Teralitha:

Ah, perhaps having more cavalry is a factor. I usually dont have alot of cav in my garrison, we shall see.

Cav is necessary because ambushes always happen by cav. It's a quick sally out to destroy siege engines and a few troops. They're allot of fun to do.

Thank you for confirming, I wasn't sure about that but it felt like the case. Any idea how many you need?

[Teralitha]

The one time I got an ambush to happen, it spawned me with like 10-15 cavalry and about an equal number of infantry and archers.

[King Loko]

Originally posted by Teralitha:

The opportunity to actually do this seems quite rare. Most of the time the option is greyed out. Out of many defending sieges i had the chance to do an ambush ONCE, it was great. It was like a mini siege.

But now Im wondering, what must happen to make the ambush option available?

i tried today to do ambush and instantly got a crash

[Teralitha]

Good, that means they will get a crash report and fix it.