Siege Tower

[aCrimsonMonarch]

When taking up castle, should only player pull the siege tower or we can command NPC ? because it is moving too damn slooooooowww like a maggot/snail

[Metalli]

I've never found a good way to move the siege tower, I sometimes take a shield and go at the front of the pullers to block the arrows, (you can use NPC with shields for this, just move them up in your warband before the siege and atleast your un-armored troops wont go and get themselves killed)

Afaik each time one of the six pullers die it slows down a bit.

In the end I'm usually just running up the ramp and letting my guys do the pulling while I wait for the bridge to go down so i can start swinging my longweapons at the thoughest defenders so my guys can get through.

You can go pull it yourself with a shield but i think its too much hassle for what its worth.

[aCrimsonMonarch]

Publicado originalmente por Foefighter:

I've never found a good way to move the siege tower, I sometimes take a shield and go at the front of the pullers to block the arrows, (you can use NPC with shields for this, just move them up in your warband before the siege and atleast your un-armored troops wont go and get themselves killed)

Afaik each time one of the six pullers die it slows down a bit.

In the end I'm usually just running up the ramp and letting my guys do the pulling while I wait for the bridge to go down so i can start swinging my longweapons at the thoughest defenders so my guys can get through.

You can go pull it yourself with a shield but i think its too much hassle for what its worth.

You mean our army can pull it ? i mean by default did they will pull it or we have to pull it alone ?

[tadzikas]

Publicado originalmente por Bung Dorji:

Publicado originalmente por Foefighter:

I've never found a good way to move the siege tower, I sometimes take a shield and go at the front of the pullers to block the arrows, (you can use NPC with shields for this, just move them up in your warband before the siege and atleast your un-armored troops wont go and get themselves killed)

Afaik each time one of the six pullers die it slows down a bit.

In the end I'm usually just running up the ramp and letting my guys do the pulling while I wait for the bridge to go down so i can start swinging my longweapons at the thoughest defenders so my guys can get through.

You can go pull it yourself with a shield but i think its too much hassle for what its worth.

You mean our army can pull it ? i mean by default did they will pull it or we have to pull it alone ?

They have to pull it, you can't do it alone.

[S.E.J]

far as I know: the more there are in near the siege tower, the faster it goes. if you retire with deien people waiting behind want then it stops sry for my English

[aCrimsonMonarch]

but if im stop the tower also stop they dont pull it >.< i mean i want to stand at the top of tower when it reach, but i cant because if im not pull it all NPC dont want to pull it, any special command ?

[Tuidjy]

I never interfere with my troops pulling the tower. What I do, while they push, is locate the defenders that are shooting at them, and putting an arrow or bolt in their head.

For best results, have a lot of heavy infantry with shields on the top of your army lists.

Also, once the ramp goes down, I tend to do two things:
- make my archers hold position in a place where they can shoot at the right side of enemies defending the wall.
- I temporarily make my infantry/cavalry hold position at the tower's base, so that we gather in a large group before we engage the enemy. Once we assemble, I order an infantry/cavalry charge.