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Better siege tactics

“Why won’t you leave me alone?”

Battering rams in their simplest form have existed for millennia. Some clever individual discovered that running a large log at gates seemed to be an effective way of knocking them down. It was only a short time until bigger and better designs appeared, usually involving decorating the ram with a ram's head. The Macedonians made many advances in siegecraft, including the introduction of the covered battering-ram, the cunning invention of Polyidus of Thessaly, who served Philip II of Macedon.

Siege

Better siege tactics

Node Set

Siege Tier 5

research_points

2000

cost_per_round

333

Effects

  • -7% siege unit costs (all provinces)
  • -2 enemy siege hold-out time
    (double for city-ports)
  • -2 enemy siege hold-out time
    (double for city-ports)
Requires
Requires Technologies Siege TowerSiege Tower
Enables
Enables Technologies Torsion TechniquesTorsion Techniques
Enables Buildings ArmourerArmourer
ArmourerArmourer
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