Or, once you can cast Chaos Rift, just stand back and watch the fireworks. Stunlock the archers while your regular troops advance. Late-game, Shadow Stalkers are hilariously powerful in siege attacks.unless the enemy has stacked up on elemental-damage-focused T4s, there's no good answer to them. Like the Dreadnought you can also use swarms of your scout summon (Grimbeak Crows) to soak up damage and keep archer units stuck in melee.

Also, Scoundrels are fast-moving, dirt-cheap and come with the Sabotage skill which works very well against walls. Rogue: Spam Blind on enemy ranged units, then point and laugh. Before you get to that point, having a swarm of Spy Drones (cheap and quick to summon) fly in ahead of your main force will do wonders to soften the target up. The spell that summons a random critter every turn is also quite useful both for providing fodder to soak up arrows and to drop an occasional infiltrator behind the walls, which will cause the defenders to move out of position.ĭreadnought: Cannons make winning sieges, both offensively and defensively, an utter breeze. Make use of it, then simply crush the enemy in a traditional field battle. Of course, depending on your class you might have other options.Īrchdruid: 'Walls? What walls?' You get a spell that removes walls from the equation entirely. Yeah, this takes a while, but hey, it's a siege :P. the one that recharges every second turn rather than being one-shot) you can also advance, fire a few shots, then retreat to heal up and repeat that until the enemy goes down. Maybe put a cheap, disposable unit ahead that'll lure some of their archers forward to where your siege weapons can target them.

Over the next few turns you can create a breach, then you advance your forces into position. Slowly creep your long-ranged siege engines forward until they can start targeting the wall but are still safely out of reach of any return fire. If you can find a stone giant somewhere, hang on to them.they're basically living (healing!) trebuchets that pack a nice punch in melee too, and they'll win sieges for you all by themselves. Siege weapons help as well (if you're a Dreadnought, Cannons are basically the ultimate siege assault tool, but even other classes will get a lot of mileage out of Trebuchets). You need a significant superiority either in sheer numbers or in quality to take over a walled city. (Okay, with the obvious joke out of the way.)

Funny, I thought you were a Tactical Genius.

Age of wonders 3 siege guide