Sieges

[PDiFolco]

With a non Roman faction- I'm playing Carthage- it's super hard to take big cities like Syracuse...or Numidian capitol Certa!
Sieges can take forever it seems...is there any way to speed that, for example building siege engines but I didn't see any mention of them...

[ledo]

As far as I understand the manual the more units with the besieger trait (usually regular infantry), plus a good leader (or at least any leader) and a blockaded port all help. There is a chance element as well though (with a d10 being rolled and modifiers added/subtracted) so you could get unlucky.

[devoncop]

With a non Roman faction- I'm playing Carthage- it's super hard to take big cities like Syracuse...or Numidian capitol Certa!
Sieges can take forever it seems...is there any way to speed that, for example building siege engines but I didn't see any mention of them...

Syracuse is about the toughest city to take in the game initially (as it was historically) . It has a port that has exist in two different sea regions so Carthage needs to blockade both. As Ledo says besieger infantry and a General with a siege bonus should do the job fine.

[PDiFolco]

With a non Roman faction- I'm playing Carthage- it's super hard to take big cities like Syracuse...or Numidian capitol Certa!
Sieges can take forever it seems...is there any way to speed that, for example building siege engines but I didn't see any mention of them...

Syracuse is about the toughest city to take in the game initially (as it was historically) . It has a port that has exist in two different sea regions so Carthage needs to blockade both. As Ledo says besieger infantry and a General with a siege bonus should do the job fine.

Ok...but what's "besieger infantry" ? Any Inf will do ? Elephants can help ? But I think it'll be cool and historical to be able to build siege engines in addition.

[panzeh]

For most countries, you need medium infantry to do sieges. Rome's heavies have a siege value, and everyone's heavy infantry gains siege value when it gets reformed, but that can take a while.

BTW, Rhodes is even harder than Syracuse. I have no idea how you take Rhodes without Roman units.

[ledo]

With a non Roman faction- I'm playing Carthage- it's super hard to take big cities like Syracuse...or Numidian capitol Certa!
Sieges can take forever it seems...is there any way to speed that, for example building siege engines but I didn't see any mention of them...

Syracuse is about the toughest city to take in the game initially (as it was historically) . It has a port that has exist in two different sea regions so Carthage needs to blockade both. As Ledo says besieger infantry and a General with a siege bonus should do the job fine.

Ok...but what's "besieger infantry" ? Any Inf will do ? Elephants can help ? But I think it'll be cool and historical to be able to build siege engines in addition.

They'll have the besieged ability which looks like a siege tower on their unit card. Hold ctrl while mousing over the unit for more details.

[PDiFolco]

Syracuse is about the toughest city to take in the game initially (as it was historically) . It has a port that has exist in two different sea regions so Carthage needs to blockade both. As Ledo says besieger infantry and a General with a siege bonus should do the job fine.

Ok...but what's "besieger infantry" ? Any Inf will do ? Elephants can help ? But I think it'll be cool and historical to be able to build siege engines in addition.

They'll have the besieged ability which looks like a siege tower on their unit card. Hold ctrl while mousing over the unit for more details.

ok, the Legions have that, but I think no Carthage units has it...

[panzeh]

Ok...but what's "besieger infantry" ? Any Inf will do ? Elephants can help ? But I think it'll be cool and historical to be able to build siege engines in addition.

They'll have the besieged ability which looks like a siege tower on their unit card. Hold ctrl while mousing over the unit for more details.

ok, the Legions have that, but I think no Carthage units has it...

The two units Carthage has in the beginning with siege value are phoenician foot and mercenary warbands.