tips on winning siege battles?

[Empanda]

im still new to the game and lost 3 campaigns on easy because i keep losing siege battes(defending and capturing). i would lose siege fights, capturing, even when my army is is 4 units bigger. then they want revenge and just take over my provinces and i lose. any tips? my uncle said to research fire arrows and soon as possible but that helped but much.

[【Ｎｉｃｅ Ｈｉｓｓ】]

Capturing forts

Step 1: Avoid enemy archers at all costs. If the AI placed archers on one side of the fort, go to the opposite. NEVER JUST CHARGE IN HEADFIRST. Find the least defended, lowest walled areas.

Step 2: Stay outside of the line of fire of enemy archers, and approach the fort using your own archers and pick off the enemy. You should have at least 4 units of archers. Manually aim them at the enemy, when the enemy starts to run hold fire and wait until another one stops moving. Rinse and repeat. Each unit of bowmen should kill between 75-125 people. This tactic should easily kill half or more of their army. If you can target enemy archers from behind, do it. Hitting them up front won't work.

Step 3: Once your archers are out of ammo, place your units near the shortest walled areas. If you climb up high walls, more of your units will die. Burn down gates on the least defended areas. Do not climb walls if it is avoidable. You should also have a standby force ready to attack another gate if necesary.

Step 4: Charge in with your heaviest armored units. Do your best to secure an area around the inside of the gate so more units can get inside. Target enemy units accordingly. If the gate you are attacking becomes too defended, use your other force to burn the other gate and attack from behind. Or use expendable units like yari ashigari to scale nearby walls.

Step 5: Victory.


Seriously, capturing forts is even easier than defending them. 4-6 units of archers can clear most forts by 50% or more. Being outnumbered shouldn't be a problem.

[【Ｎｉｃｅ Ｈｉｓｓ】]

Defending forts

Step 1: Place your archers on the walls where the enemy is coming from. If you lack archers, use spearmen. If the enemy has a lot of archers and you have none, pull your units out of range and let the archers start climbing the walls, then move forward to defend the walls with whatever.

Step 2: Assuming you have archers on the walls, place reinforcing unints behind them to help out if the enemy actually manages to scale the walls. If you have enough archers, the enemy will run before they even make it up the walls.

Step 3: Defend using common sense. Don't get surrounded. Don't let archers pelt you. Flank will cavalry. Funnel units up walls and through tight doorways.

Step 4: Victory.


With 2 spear ashigaru and 3 bow ashigaru you can defend against the vast majority of attacks, even outnumbered 3 to one.

[【Ｎｉｃｅ Ｈｉｓｓ】]

If you are attacking a fort but don't have many archers do the same thing but compensate. Attack from multiple directions and do not let the AI funnel you through the gates. If they are blobbing a gate, find a way around. If you have to scale walls to flank the enemy and secure a gate, do it, but avoid it if possible. If you can't avoid being pelted by archers, use heavily armored units like samurai to approach the walls/gates and use loose formation.

[【Ｎｉｃｅ Ｈｉｓｓ】]

Watch some of this guy's videos for some tips and tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qey8MBfOUaE


You don't have to watch all of it, but go through his videos and skip to the battles. He easily out works the AI over and wins battles where he is outnumbered 4 to one.

[Empanda]

Originally posted by Wotsa:

Watch some of this guy's videos for some tips and tactics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qey8MBfOUaE


You don't have to watch all of it, but go through his videos and skip to the battles. He easily out works the AI over and wins battles where he is outnumbered 4 to one.

thank you.

[Big Moustache]

Deploy Yari Ashigaru outside your castle when defending. Place them at a side where no archers are and setup spearwall. Watch his whole familytree suicide on it and than re arrange for his spear troops. when you see nodachi or swords coming run around to another side of the castle while your archers kill em wile chasing them.If you play as Oda and got the improved version of ashigaru you dont have to run away they kill swords easy in spearwall just don't let them flank.

[MattStriker]

Also, for defending against sieges, matchlocks are absolutely and completely amazing. Put one unit on a wall somewhere and watch as samurai units break and shatter one by one as they try to get through to you. If you play Otomo, you can pretty much consider enemy sieges a non-issue.