Quote Originally Posted by Vladimir View Post
In a civil war is a player simply allowed to besiege his enemy? The rules indicate that a settlement assault *must* take place. What about siege and sally? Did I miss that somewhere?
In LotR, the battle Umpire had pretty free reign to make the battle be whatever he wanted it to be. Rule 6(e) specifically says:

Regardless of the type of battle chosen, the umpire must attempt to have the battle replicate the in-game state of affairs to the best of his ability.
If the in-game state of affairs really did warrant figuring out some kind of siege and sally situation, Zim could simply say (with his power to adjudicate rule disputes and/or launch events) that a siege is allowed, and the umpire would then run it as he saw fit. This is the advantage of a GM with the rule system we have: we don't really have to specify rules for every single possible eventually. We just need to do our best to have a general system in place that is easy to use and understand. Let the GM call it like he sees it from there on out.