Castle siege quick question

Corwin · #1 October 8th, 2006, 09:08 PM

Do I remember correctly that castle walls provide no benefits for the troops inside the castle against incoming enemy missile fire during storm of the castle?

Taqwus · #2 October 9th, 2006, 03:12 AM

IIRC it doesn't block shots directly, but does provide a precision penalty.

Corwin · #3 October 9th, 2006, 10:24 PM

Really? Interesting. I didn't know that.

The penalty only applies to the attackers of course, right?

If this is true, does anybody knows how big is this penalty?

Frostmourne27 · #4 October 9th, 2006, 11:37 PM

I havn't noticed a penalty, and I bring lots of archers to seiges. If there is a penalty, I think it's quite small -massed archers still owrks very well, especially since troops bottleneck in doorways and get slaughtered.

DominionsFan · #5 October 10th, 2006, 07:01 PM

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Frostmourne27 said:
I havn't noticed a penalty, and I bring lots of archers to seiges. If there is a penalty, I think it's quite small -massed archers still owrks very well, especially since troops bottleneck in doorways and get slaughtered.

Yep. I think that walls should block at least 25% of the arrows, also it should give a higher precision penalty. [In fact there is any precision penalty at all now regarding walls?]

B0rsuk · #6 October 10th, 2006, 08:01 PM

I think there should be 'stay behind walls' order available for defending units.

Corwin · #7 October 13th, 2006, 05:39 AM

bump to the top - I still would be interested to know the answer to my last question about bodyguards.

Fate · #8 October 13th, 2006, 02:34 PM

According to the manual, should the bodyguards route the SC will have to make a morale check every turn. So it will give them more chances to fail, but won't do anything directly.