Game Mechanics - Sieges from the attacker perspective | Sieges Empire: TW Guide

Sieges can be simply divided into two types. The first one is when the opponent do not have siege walls. While the second refers to the situation directly opposite - the enemy is sitting in his fortress. Depending on the conditions the attacker strategy must be different.

No siege walls

Sieges are very similar to land battles - use line astern formation and try to surround your opponents. However, there are some significant differences and it is necessary to mention about them here. First of all, notice that the enemy is keeping some of his infantry in buildings. If you have many good cannons, you can simply destroy these buildings and bury hostile soldiers in the ruins. You can also attack fortress with your troops. Depending on the level of difficulty the number of units required to exterminate all opponents will change. For the average level of difficulty is recommended ratio of 3:2 (3 is for you of course).

Artillery can help you to kill many enemy infantry troops without any looses

Keep in mind that your people will suffer because of the mines. Fortunately, they are always in small numbers, so the losses will be rather moderate. Be careful with the cavalry. Artificial Intelligence likes to deploy stakes to stop your horses.

In 99% of all cases opponent will mulch artillery with sand bags. Thanks to them, enemy artillerists are almost completely secured from musket fire. So I recommend to jump over these bags and attack with bayonets or charge with cavalry from the back - artillery is almost unsecured from the back.

Siege walls

Generally, I do not recommend to attack fortified forts only by yourself. Intelligence of units is on a very poor level and soldiers mistakes can result in your defeat. Even, when you are over-represented or when you have technological advantage.

If you want to lead the battle only by yourself, you have to make sure that you have appropriate artillery. It is important to have a possibility to move your cannons using the horse chariots. With so-called fixed artillery, there can be a problem with cannons range: not always, you can deploy it close enough to successfully attack siege walls. With mobile artillery you don't have this problem. Two regiments of 12-pounds howitzers is enough to destroy siege walls quite fast.

If you have time, you can destroy that parts of walls where enemy cannons are deployed

I recommend to deploy artillery and infantry in line astern formation (a few dozen meters from the enemy fortifications). When you will start to shoot the walls, the enemy will come up to you to start fight. Then the battle immediately turns into a simple land battle in which fire of muskets and the Fire by Rank ability are most important.

After making some damages in the wall, you can try to get inside. If the opponent wants to come out, surround the hole in the wall and shoot his troops. Enemy regiments will not have enough time to reorganize and answer. This will result in serious looses in their lines.

If the opponent does not want to go out you will have to go inside the fortress. The best way is to do it quickly, because the enemy has cannons on the walls - the longer you standing outside the walls the more of your troops will be killed.

The first thing you have to do after entering the fort is to go to the center of the square and stay there for a while. The timer will be displayed in the right upper corner.

To be honest, many things can happen during that kind of fight. You cannot forget about bayonets, which will be useful in the fight against a general regiment (in most cases it standing in the center of the fortress).

It's possible that you will have to shoot enemy infantry which is going down from the walls to defend the square. In this case, you can either fight with bayonets (hoping that it will be disastrous for the opponent).

If you have the cavalry, then try to find troops that are coming out from the side gates . Attack any type of cannons and smaller groups of infantry that are located outside the fort. There is no sense in going inside with cavalry (firstly - there is not too much space inside to charge effectively, and secondly - horsemen intelligence does not allow them to quickly and smoothly pass through the gate).

If you don't have any cannons or you want to kill as many opponents as you can, you must climb on the walls using ropes. Come near siege walls and order your people to climb.

In this case, losses are inevitable due to the hostile artillery and soldiers waiting on the wall. When you are on top pitched melee combat will start so it is important to equip your people with high-quality bayonets. It is also a good idea to assault walls with infantry specialized in close combat, for example Cemaat Janissaries.

In fact, there is no difference where you will enter the walls. Even if you choose unsecured piece of fortifications, enemy soldiers will have enough time to reach you.