Short siege introduction

How to siege a town:

You compose an army and add to it siegemachines, which can be produced at the siege workshop.

You click the town you want to capture/raze and choose "send army" on the menu. In the next window you will send your army to "siege" - meaning choosing the siege option on the orders menu. If you cannot choose this option check that you have all necessary research.

Once you choose siege you are required to click the mousebutton on a tile around the target town on a minimap to you left. Also you need to give your army plenty of time to set up camp and stick around so I recommend you set the occupy time to 2 days.

After you click send your army will proceed to journey to the target town, set up camp and commence bombardment of the city. Once the town has been thoroughly decminated (lasting usually 1-2 days depending on the number of siege machines and the town size), a message will repeat itself in your message inbox as well as the hourly bombardment message - "The town of xxxxxx is ready to fall!".

Once you get this message you can click a link to your siege management page (found under military/movements/Siege menu button). On this page you will have two options provided your population is high enough to add another city. Options are Capture or Raze - click which ever you fancy. Reward for capturing a city is - entire research tree, a fraction of the buildings w levels and whatever basic and advanced resources containable by the warehouse.


In order to siege you must have a level 20 barracks and you need to research the following technologychains:


To build siege workshop:
- militia
- conscription
- call to arms
- standing army
- siege engineering
- war machines
- warcraft

To enable siegecamp:
- militia
-strategem
- occupy territory
- blockade
- siege encampment

Once done and you have a ready army and a functioning siege workshop you are ready to produce and wield the ultimate tools of war.