About siege engines... PRICE?

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

with large walls i tend to need 2 of them to destroy the gate and 2 towers :S

Large walls? Do you mean Large Stone Walls, the big ones, bigger than the normal stone walls?

Historically, those were the best walls money could buy. And they were practically indestructible in the ancient era, as long as they were adequately defended. If walls that strong were easy to knock down with stone-throwing catapults, the even more expensive cannon would never have been invented!

You should, historically speaking, consider yourself very lucky indeed if you manage to breach large stone walls at all.

[ARCHIPPOS]

Yep! up until the cannon came the best way to take cities with huge epic massive walls wasto starve the defenders.A lengthy process by all means (and unhealthy because of the hygiene problems that emerged)...

[Macilrille]

Large walls? Do you mean Large Stone Walls, the big ones, bigger than the normal stone walls?

Historically, those were the best walls money could buy. And they were practically indestructible in the ancient era, as long as they were adequately defended. If walls that strong were easy to knock down with stone-throwing catapults, the even more expensive cannon would never have been invented!

You should, historically speaking, consider yourself very lucky indeed if you manage to breach large stone walls at all.

Chartage's in 150- 148 BC would probably have qualified, took the Romans two years of siege to breach/storm them and take the city.

[Ibrahim]

well, I see no problems in having super expansive siege weapons. as Ludens pointed out, they were indeed sophisticated machines for the timeperiod, and engineers were definately needed for the expertise.

but it doesn't stop me from including 1 such 1 talent device in each field army; afterall, I evidently make a decent treasurer

(seriously, 60,000 mnai a season is good money).