Siege machines

[Roark]

I just want to clarify that I meant the specific unit called "Siege Cannons", by the way guys.

Those things are unbelievable!! They reduce the siege of Constantinople to a jaunt lasting 15 minutes. Bah!

I use demi-culvs and other guns all the time.

Insofar as Huscarles are concerned, yeah... I've been guilty in the past of pumping them out because I was conscious of the ticking clock and the advent of the High Era, but I never play Early any more, so I only use them in Viking Era, where it's almost impossible to spam them on the same scale anyway.

[Ironsword]

^^ What's everyones preference when it comes to siege? culverin or serpentine? Mortar or Bombard? Good old fashioned catapult or that AI favourite, 6 x ballista?

[I of the Storm]

Well, I don't get to play much with gunpowder units, so it's catapult for me. Although sometimes when I feel mean and did not take my medicine I use nothing but UMs to storm that castle. Oh the carnage...

[Martok]

Catapults for smaller castles, and trebuchets & mangonels for the larger ones.

[Roark]

^^ What's everyones preference when it comes to siege? culverin or serpentine? Mortar or Bombard? Good old fashioned catapult or that AI favourite, 6 x ballista?

I hate Mortars and Bombards with equal measure. I find ballistas mostly useless (taking up a whole unit slot, for one hit/one kill each round), but if I have a high-command general, I VERY occasionally use them as snipers against attacking armies.

Serpentines aren't very destructive against big walls, but they are extremely accurate and therefore good against massed units of attacking troops.

For non-gunpowder, I use catapults, and add Mangonels x2 for big castles when I can hire them as mercs.

[Kamakazi]

My advice is to keep your trebuchets etc back a lil and use them to take out the inner gates etc since they have a longer range... put your less ranged units closeenough to take the outer gates or walls but far enough no to get hit too much.....

i find it a good technique to split them up and take out the outer walls in 2 areas and to pincer inside defenders so u could try that also

[Lokiss]

^^ What's everyones preference when it comes to siege? culverin or serpentine? Mortar or Bombard? Good old fashioned catapult or that AI favourite, 6 x ballista?

Culverin, don't use either but I suppose mortar, and 6 x Ballista because it's a lot more accurate than a Catapult and when I'm done opening up a hole in the wall I can spam some bolts right into their lines and seriously mess their morale up.

Catapults are just so clunky and inaccurate it makes me scream, and taking down towers with them? Forget about it.