BarnardStar
Recruit
I literally did nothing, just gawped as Mangonels and trebuchets hurled rocks and pots of wildfire overhead and two hundred men advanced under a rain of arrows. Archers hid behind prepared screens and took potshots, infantry marched with shields up. One of the mangonels got a direct hit on a wall and took out ten men in a blink. The enemy artillery destroyed one of the trebs and it collapsed in a heap. The ram smashed the gate apart and the towers hit the walls, and then the battle really started. I climbed up onto the ramparts and watched the furball from the edge, and as I stood there, a chunk of the battlements next to me exploded from a direct hit from one of my siege towers. In the end, we (again, I did jack all) crushed them and the last few defenders ran. And in all the fighting and shouting and dying, I was too amazed to do anything but stand and watch.
That siege was probably the coolest thing I've seen in a video game since I upgraded my Mega Drive to a Playstation and went from playing Sonic 3 to Final Fantasy 7.
When I was younger and I used to watch John Boorman's Excalibur, or played Medival Total War 1, I used to dream about video games being like this. When I saw the previews, I always took the footage with a pinch of salt, I assumed the game would never be as cool as it looked... but it is! Whatever else is good or bad about Bannerlord, sieges are incredible.
That siege was probably the coolest thing I've seen in a video game since I upgraded my Mega Drive to a Playstation and went from playing Sonic 3 to Final Fantasy 7.
When I was younger and I used to watch John Boorman's Excalibur, or played Medival Total War 1, I used to dream about video games being like this. When I saw the previews, I always took the footage with a pinch of salt, I assumed the game would never be as cool as it looked... but it is! Whatever else is good or bad about Bannerlord, sieges are incredible.
