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Hooba
10-11-2003, 21:00
Will there be units with ladders in the game or other siege equipment?

Greetz
Hooba
BLOODUK
10-11-2003, 22:06
What about catapults with flaming cows?
Greeny
11-11-2003, 01:37
lol, here comes Bessy! ;)
embro
19-11-2003, 09:43
as i know there will be ladders to climb the walls, rams, catapults, trebuchets, siege towers, etc. :D
Cork2
19-11-2003, 18:31
What about those covers? i Don't know what they are called but archers hide behind them during a siege and then they pop out and shoot arrows at the people on the walls.
embro
20-11-2003, 10:25
archers and other infantry hide in the siege towers and rams. usually rams have roof and the infantry that is under it push the ram :)
Frank Fay
20-11-2003, 11:40
There will be:

- Laddermen
- Trebuchets
- Catapults
- Ballista
- Battering Ram
- Siege Towers
Jerome
20-11-2003, 13:25
Originally posted by Frank Fay
There will be:

- Laddermen
- Trebuchets
- Catapults
- Ballista
- Battering Ram
- Siege Towers

that should do the trick i suppose...:D
embro
20-11-2003, 21:27
yep. i forgot the ballista :)
Arjenvs
25-11-2003, 11:00
Originally posted by Frank Fay
There will be:

- Laddermen
- Trebuchets
- Catapults
- Ballista
- Battering Ram
- Siege Towers

Forgive me for asking....but what is a Trebuchet?:confused:
Jerome
25-11-2003, 11:39
Originally posted by Arjenvs
Forgive me for asking....but what is a Trebuchet?:confused:

a trebuchet is a big 'slingshot' that fires rocks (or cows :D ) over a great distance, causing havoc on walls and buildings...

they were also in AOK....
Arjenvs
25-11-2003, 12:13
And also in stronghold...now I remember...also in Patrician III by the way....great things..
Es.
29-11-2003, 21:33
Originally posted by Jerome
a trebuchet is a big 'slingshot' that fires rocks (or cows :D ) over a great distance, causing havoc on walls and buildings...

they were also in AOK....

Actualy cows was fired over walls back in time under town/castel siges.
More presicely dead animals that had start roting was fired over the walls into the towns, where there decaying bodies would spread diseases among the defenders and thereby lowering there defensive capabilities.
Jerome
30-11-2003, 20:46
Originally posted by Es.
Actualy cows was fired over walls back in time under town/castel siges.
More presicely dead animals that had start roting was fired over the walls into the towns, where there decaying bodies would spread diseases among the defenders and thereby lowering there defensive capabilities.

For real?

i didnt know that. again; my knowledge of medieval times is emberassing...:blush:
Es.
30-11-2003, 20:49
aye for real.
Don't know how used it was, but i do know it have been done with catapults in the past.
Jerome
30-11-2003, 21:21
nice tactic,

a bit dirty, but could be a very cheap and effective way to conquer a town/castle. then again, you'd have to live in that town/castle yourself wouldnt you? think of all the germs....:D
Arjenvs
01-12-2003, 16:38
yes indeed....so what´s the use then of conquering the town..:confused:
Es.
01-12-2003, 21:35
Well a dead enemy is a enemy you don't have to kill with your soldiers so if a dead cow or chiken thats rotting can kill him why not.
Besides the germ was first discovered in the 19's centory as far as i rember.
So they did't think much of higine, all they knew was that it worked.
Besides you can just hire a man for a pice of bread, when the town have been captured to pull the dead animals out of the town and harms way.
Jerome
02-12-2003, 09:42
is guess life was much more simple in those days....;)
Arjenvs
04-12-2003, 20:16
but what's the use of killing the villagers....you need them to work for you in the end...so spreading deseases is not very tactical.....and not very nice.....:angel: