The secret to taking the walls (Long read)

[Daveybaby]

Werner, good stuff, but that would be a lot easier to read if you broke it up into half a dozen paragraphs.

[Dr.Strangelove]

Some may consider this cheating, but save-reload when using this strategy will save you time(game time not real time ), money, agents, agents' skill and relations with factions whom you are not already in war with. It could be boring though...

Anyway as Katank pointed out, this strategy is the best when dealing with fellow catholic factions.

Interesting thread Werner .

[Beren Son Of Barahi]

this method is the way i deal with those annoying mongals, i tired them up for so long with spies and assassins that they start having having problems at home and with their family.

i also disable any nasty towers before i seige a city with an army. very effective. 2 spies and 2 ass. in front of your army can be very effective.

[Shahed]

Nice ideas !

I did this on Thessaloniki, produced a max skill assassin out of it. The dissent isn't worth much IMO, unless you are taking the city from a faction you are not at war with. but the fact the repairs drain the enemy treasury is !

lmao @ ur sig ! That's funny.

[katank]

@Beren, you could sabotage towers? Wow, that would be pretty nice. Cannon towers especially are a pain considering that they can outrange trebs.

[Quillan]

Yes, the improved towers can be sabotaged, and that has become a staple of my assault strategy. Scout first with spy, sabotage any ballista/cannon towers, then lay siege.

[DensterNY]

Although not exactly a strategy to take the walls, Werner you gave us a greate guideline on training up your spies and assassins and in general causing mischief to everyone friend and foe alike.

I especially like the idea of making a large city rebel and then taking it over and your plan works great when you have a neighboring nation and you both have that awkward standing truce.

King to King: "Listen, I have no idea why your neighboring cities and castles are catching on fire and your relatives are dying... must not be praying hard enough, shall I mention this to the pope?" - hehe

[Werner]

There are many different ways to impliment this strategy. The original thread depicted a more extream way of crushing an enemy city, especially something big like a capital or huge town...etc..

However, how you use your assas/spies is up to you and sometimes it helps to do this with less numbers all around the enemy kingdom. It just depends on how much money they are making at one time and what kind of army they are able to amass.