So, what's everyone grandest city siege story? (it can be against you, or against another civ).


In one game, I tried a sea blitz, landing 8 tanks next to each enemy city. Only their capital was inland. The civ was Japan, and they still had swords, samurai, cavalry mixed in with riflemen. As small as they were, they had the 2nd largest army next to mine. So, here I am with about 150 tanks placed around their cities. The blitz was another story (and I wrote about it in a thread somewhere), but by the time I got to their capital, they had retreated all 75 of their remaining injured units into the city. I still had about 30-50 tanks left after the blitz (the other 130 were either dead, or garrisoned in cities). (a whole stack of 8 tanks died at the start of the blitz - next to their weakest defended city!). Luckily, the capital didn't have a barracks, and it took about 3 turns to take the city! Just to give an idea of the insult to injury my tanks had, they retreated, or lost to samurai and pikemen! (no spears though. ;)). This was before I even though of using artillery.

I was playing a game as the Romans on kal-els earth map a little while ago, and I was at war with Greece from about 1800BC. They demanded tribute, which is unusual for them ive never seen them demand tribute before, and i refused so they declared war at around 1800BC.
Im not exactly sure of the date, it was a while ago, but im sure it was about 1800BC, cos i was still using archers n warriors.
I defeated the Greek army and laid seige to Athens in about 6 turns, and it took me to 130AD using 8 MIs and about 12-14 legionarys to conquer them.
I quit that game shortly after cos my drive to build the great library was beaten by the Zulus by 2 turns. :( The zulus beat me building a scientific wonder, that was one freaky game.

I have one similar to Chieftesses.

I was playing as the Russians on a Huge random map. I controlled the whole of my continent (conquered France, England and Germany) and was now looking for overseas expansion. My target was the Aztecs, who were stranded on a little island with NO stragetic resources, not even Iron. All there cities except for the capital were on the coast. First, I landed on the west side of their island, with mass produced Cossacks from German cities. Their first couple cities fell, and when I took a break from fighting to let my American allies do some work, they rushed at be with there longbowmen, killing many already wounded Cossacks. Then , I regrouped, took the rest of the cities and headed for Tenochtitlan. The defense at Tenochtitlan was rather pitiful, but after a first wave, hordes of longbowmen poured out against my 15 Cossacks, many wounded. The longbowmen were defeated after inflicting about 1/2 causalties and after about two turns, the city was captured and the Aztecs were defeated.

I am still playing this game. I am in a brutal war with China, but winning. It is much harder than the Aztecs because there are lots of mountains and a much bigger island to take. Also, the Chinese have resources. :)

My seige of Kyoto as egypt. 50+ artillery firing per turn reduced it from size 24 powerhouse to size 1 with all buildings destroyed in just a few turns. I love those artillery seiges, it just feels so good to watch as their cities are reduced to rubble, especially when they strated the war by attacking your core cities via ROP raping you. Vengeance is sweet. :)

A seige in a world war type game i am playing.... I have a screenie here somewheres... Anyways, I went to war with the French so i could kill French people and they kept landing 8 assorted units of infantry, guerillas, and cavalry every other turn.
AHA! here we go!.

I once was getting slaugtered by the Romas when they suddenly they put troops in every square around the city. That was about 50 troops. So my Rifleman and cannons held out against tanks and infantry. But then I remenbered my 4 cavalry units and miracuously the killed 8 Roman infantry and 1 tank. Then the Romans offered peace. Needless to say I got conquered 20 turns later, by those same Romans.

My worst sige ever was when I was playing as the Greeks. There was a war with the Egyptians. It was my 2nd game ever. I thought that if I placed a lot of Hoplites around a city, it would starve itself to death. The only units that I produced during the whole war was Hoplites. Every now and then, I would send in my Hoplites to attack a city. The result was a bunch of elite units all over the Egytian empire. This was not just 1 city that I sieged- it was across the whole of the Egytian empire. I probably stayed in that war for 2000 years, without capturing a city. Eventually I got fed up and didn't play the game for a week. I also treid to surround a city with catapults, and I never saw any of them again.

LOL

My longest siege was definitely in my curent game. My friends and allies the French sneak attacked me, and i wiped the floor with their pitiful invasion force. I crossed the border and ocnquered one or two minor cities, then saw my prize, Paris! Home of the Great Pyramids.

I started the siege sometime towards the end of the BC years with Gallic Swordsmen and Horesmen and finished it around 600 AD with Knights and Medieval infantry. The French kept cranking defenders and i had to constantly keep a steam of atttackers flowing out of my city. If i tried to just sit there and starve them out a bunch units would come out of nowhere and attack my troops who couldn't heal in enemy territory, and my roads were underdeveloped and i had trouble moving my attackers from my Empire to France's doorstep.

I pounded them forever in frustration, usually i would knock a defender down to one or two HP, just to have the next toughest one step up to the plate. Finally, i got a huge group of Knights together and marched to the edge of paris, my wounded troops that had been there for hundreds of years must have been relieved :D

I furiousely attacked Paris, losing many Knight in the process. When the city FINALLY did fall and i secured the Pyramids, i all but jumped up and cheered :D

My First Warlord Experience.

After reading some of the QSC entries from the Babylon deity GOTM, I decided to bump up the difficulty and give warlord a try. I started the game as Babylon and soon found myself next to Xerxes and the Persians. My starting position was pretty good and I managed to grab a fair bit of territory before the continent was full.

After cranking out some culture, I started to flip a lot of Persian cities (5 or 6). The prized posession was a Persian city with the colossus, three gems, two gold, game, a river, and a coastal port. It was also strategically placed at a major choke point.

To quell any resistance, I fortified the city with several spearmen. I guess Xerxes was really missing the income because he decided to take the city back by force. I rushed a few offensive units into place I tried to pick off his Immortals as they came near. Unfortunately, my millitary was very weak, and I found myself in over my head and totally unprepared for what was to come.

After fifteen turns, I was down to three spearmen (one redlined) and was comletely surrounded and pillaged by an unending stream of Immortals (there were at least 30 in stacks of various size). I tried to rush horsemen in to break through and bring in more spearmen. A few made it through and I held the city a few turns longer, but the writing was on the wall. My spearmen battled valliantly and slew many of Xerxes fines warriors. I tried to sue for peace, but my envoys went unrecognized. The siege continued unabbated for a total of 23 turns before I lost my prize (and eventually two thirds of my kingdom) to the dreaded Xerxes.

Ever since, I have always been wary (and a little scared) of the Persians.

yes, x-man is vicous, and i would suggest not culturally linked starting locations when playin as a middle eastern power.

Btw, how did he get 30 immortals on warlord? should have gotten some catapults.

That was the first (and last) time the AI has completely surrounded a city of mine. It took him the better part of 15 turns to completely cut off my city from any aid I may have been able to scrape together. I killed over a dozen horsemen and archers in my attempt to keep the city, but it was the Immortals that did me in. The only catapults they got were the ones I wa trying to get into the city for defence (it blew up in my face).

I've never seen the AI attack with any of the bombard units (catapult, cannon, artillary, radar artillary) in any of the games I've played. If the AI knew how to use them effectively (like a human player) the game would be quite a bit more difficult.

if the AI knew how to use artillery, the game would be impossible. Their SoDs are usually powerful enough already, with artillery the human players would be screwed.

My personal greatest siege was in RB Epic 17, in which one city by itself, packed with only a dozen or so rifles and several artillery, held out for almost ten turns against the massive assault of TWO enormous Deity opponents. You can read a short description of the Heroes of Uruk here (http://www.kalikokottage.com/civ3/sullla/Epic17_1200AD.html) if desired. And a little picture:

http://www.kalikokottage.com/civ3/sullla/Epic17egyptcavs.jpg


The greatest siege I have ever seen in terms of sheer length and determination was the city of Isandlhwana in the LOTR2 (http://forums.civfanatics.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=19001) succession game, the first-ever Always War game created by Arathorn. The city was created from a settler popped from a hut in 2710BC, founded in 2670BC, and was under seige non-stop for the next 4000 years. Here's a picture of just how far away Isand was from the other cities (peeking out of the corner in the extreme east of this pic):

http://www.civfanatics.net/uploads/new_lands.jpg

Needless to say, it's completely cut off from the rest of the civ, and has been since it was founded. Isand wasn't hooked up to the other cities until well after 1500AD, after withstanding a truly legendary seige. That's almost 300 turns of game time, with the city never falling to the enemy despite perpertual war at all times. An impressive story, to say the least. :)