SMZ
07-29-2005, 12:37
Quick Question:
In the books the normal course for taking towns or cities seems to be by laying siege. Defensive measures like walls or moats seem to be extremely effective with the attackers only choices being between storming over them, or starving the defenders out. I'm reminded of Rand's surprise, at the "spear caster", when he comes to relieve Cairhein from the Shaido. The woman who designed the ballista is installed as the head of his new Academy, evidently she came up with something nobody had thought of.
So it seems to me, that catapults and ballistas shouldn't be trainable unless you have a high level Academy building. I'm not even sure if sapping and siege towers are in use. Battering rams and ladders seem to be the extent of Randland armies siege capabilities... unless of course they have a channeler along.
I suppose that in Rand era a faction with an Illuminator's Guild might eventually produce some kind of cannon, after a scripted event perhaps? Like those messages that pop up in game, "Archimedes Screw" etc...
In the books the normal course for taking towns or cities seems to be by laying siege. Defensive measures like walls or moats seem to be extremely effective with the attackers only choices being between storming over them, or starving the defenders out. I'm reminded of Rand's surprise, at the "spear caster", when he comes to relieve Cairhein from the Shaido. The woman who designed the ballista is installed as the head of his new Academy, evidently she came up with something nobody had thought of.
So it seems to me, that catapults and ballistas shouldn't be trainable unless you have a high level Academy building. I'm not even sure if sapping and siege towers are in use. Battering rams and ladders seem to be the extent of Randland armies siege capabilities... unless of course they have a channeler along.
I suppose that in Rand era a faction with an Illuminator's Guild might eventually produce some kind of cannon, after a scripted event perhaps? Like those messages that pop up in game, "Archimedes Screw" etc...