SERVER FIRST :: Strategus Castle taken

[Lordark]

at the beginning of the battle I was like this..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLpvxCiZI2I&feature=related

Then I at the end I was like this!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fAsO4_l7P4

[DaveUKR]

Congratulations !

[Graf_Hodenschaf]

Congrats, friends 

[Leesin]

First castle was taken long long ago when Strategus was first released.

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[Warcat]

so true, also

Two and a half hours to take a castle manned by 4000 idiots. Gotta be a new record.

not even close, some of those battles first time around were way longer than 2.5 hours per 4000 people.

[Lars]

Gratz

[Dehitay]

Two hours. 5500 vs 4500.

I've been on the sieges where it took an hour and a half for 1500 defenders to kill 900 attackers.

After an hour and a half on this one, there was well under 50 kills. Hell, it was probly closer to 10. However, hundreds of tickets had been lost due to attrition and stupidity.

[wylker]

I personally would like to thank the Northern Empire. They are #1 at finding ways to make video games not at all fun. In the quest to make strategus more and more not fun, they lead the charge. Please continue your holy quest to make a video game as much like a job scribbing shit stains off a prison bathroom floor as possible.

GOD WILLS IT

[H4rdn3ssKill3r]

And as our brothers (the hospitallers) charged into the castle, god trully smilled upon them, and so with it and the blessing from us, the templars, fate took its course and won the battle!

And there was one word in the soldiers mind, that was...

God wills it!

Oh wait... most people done this, but mine means more cause im a templar 

[Kocik_4th]

Say "thanks" to Kapikulu members who joined to defenders and died totally 100+ times 


and i joined castle for see the ambiance and items, it was really good especially killing catapult guy Ecko ) it was funny guys thank you all and good luck for other ones.

[Beans]

Did you guys use up all your construction sites? That one wall got taken down pretty far and I was wondering why you didn't finish the job?

Is that why you didn't use a siege towers? Because the mass laddering, while looking cool as fuck, really wasn't effective at all until the defenders had a bunch of people quit and attackers had like 58 to 40. Ladders seem really shitty now.

[Ujin]

Grats !

[Dasty]

Did you guys use up all your construction sites? That one wall got taken down pretty far and I was wondering why you didn't finish the job?

Is that why you didn't use a siege towers? Because the mass laddering, while looking cool as fuck, really wasn't effective at all until the defenders had a bunch of people quit and attackers had like 58 to 40. Ladders seem really shitty now.

Apparently catapults are bugged in strat battles and tend to blow themselves up for no reason. We ended up losing 5 catapults to this when we planned on using only three to take out the desired targets. We ended up running our of either sites or materials... I don't know which... was really looking forward to doing some damage as catapult crew... spent the entire day practicing them to have them blow up after 3-20 shots... hope this will be fixed soon.

[Beans]

You guys had way more luck with them than other sieges at least. DRZ for example, made a shitload of catapults and probably got off like 8 shots the whole battle. They also had their catapults on extreme inclines.

I didn't see any of the cats you guys used due to the fog, did you have them on pretty flat ground?

[Thokan]

We encountered problems with the item scaling limiting the numbers of construction sites we were able to use. The catapults either bugged and shot straight once every third shot or just exploded forcing us to make new. We ran out of CSs quickly as the catapults were heavily bugged. That is why we did a daring move and moved forward the last of our catapults so it had a better chance of hitting. As we ran out of CSs before we realized it we couldnt go to plan B wich was building a siege tower so when the last catapult broke, due to enemy fire, we said 'fuck it' and just simply used ladders.

And yes, Beans, we had them on flat ground. We have practiced a lot with the catapult firing. The fog also made it hard spotting, atleast for me