We got the shit kicked out of us and I was personally distraught during and after the battle because of it.(click to show/hide)
Not to sound jewish, but who do i talk to for that prize money?
Put up stones and kesh will pay you..
Engineers had a lot to do with that win (also the great gear and fighters) but at the start we prob had 7-10 engineers working together. Built 5 catapults very quickly and even when we lost a guy to firing it seemed we had plenty of others willing to build. It cut the slow start time of the siege down to only 10-15 mins total. Was a fun fight.
It looked like you guys had alright gear. How bad was it?
The body armour was pretty alright, +3 varangapulous (sp?) armour for 200 tickets, +1 yashawns and other assorted shit for the others. Gloves sucked, with -1 plate mittens and unloomed mail mittens for the rest. Helmets and boots were rather average, but I didn't pay too much mind to them either. Not sure about 1h or 2h weapons, but polearms had 50 +3 long war axes and the rest were mediocre +1 polearms, with no loomed longspears/pikes.
It wasn't really the gear that did us in; we still had almost 30 mins on the timer when you flag capped. As I've said before, your side excels in sieges and ours excels in open field battles. Villages are something of a toss-up, depending on the map. You also did particularly well on this attack in addition to your mercenary pool being better at siege than other types of fights.