Hello,
With all that ruckus about sieges, I got ideas about a improved way of making siege work, which would help balance things (if correctly tweaked of course).
The core idea is to have sieges use supply to shoot :
- The supply would depend on the siege : AC < cannon/ballistas < mortar/catapults < shield generator < treb ;
- No supply = no shoot at all.
- Siege weapons that automatically spawn in a tower or a keep, as well as siege dropped inside them by defenders would draw their supply 1 – from the structure 2 – from the user and party/squad members in its vicinity (1200 range) ;
- Siege weapons dropped anywhere else, as well as siege dropped in a tower/keep by attackers would draw their supply from the user and party/squad members in its vicinity (1200 range) ;
- To prevent siege trolls from using sieges to consume supply, only the successful use of sieges would use supply.
Side-effects for siege weapons :
- The build costs of siege weapons could be lowered ;
- When destroyed, they’d be put in a “destroyed” status, that’d be less expensive to remove than to build a new siege weapon.
- Siege weapons could be more or less buffed, to compensate for this more difficult aspect of managing them.
The expected advantages are :
- Camps get more valuable in the sense of “supply providers” ;
- Outnumbered keep defenders would have a way to prevent treb endless bombing from towers : snap the supply => disable the treb ;
- Incentive for attackers to blob’n’drop 5 superior catapults/rams at once would drastically fall, because attackers would have a much harder time to manage their supply than defenders.
To help with supply management, supply dollys can be added in squads :
- Squad captains and lieutenants could hire supply dollys in camps (or towers ?) ;
- Supply dollys are like usual dollys : they’re worth 30 supply, walk the same, get the same protection boon ;
- Those ones would follow the commander (who could assign a lieutenant for the dolly), instead of walking a predefinite path ;
- The dolly’s supply would add to the squad’s ;
- The dolly can be refilled at any camp.