Warlords: Strategic Conquest
You decide to not expose your troops to inevitable heavy casualties from ballistae fire. You order your ballistae forward. They move into range to destroy the installations. A battle of the ballistae ensues as bolts furiously fly back and forth. Ballistae on both sides slowly wreck and break down. Your 20 to 10 advantage is offset by their greater range and accuracy. When the giant bolts cease flying, neither side has a single ballistae still intact.
This is the result you were looking for. Now you finally get the chance to use your cloud ladders.
They slowly approach the walls, with your archers forming long lines behind them. Your 400 thousand infantry can only wait outside the castle, anxious to enter the fray.
You watch as your archers crawl out of your cloud ladders and attempt to assail the walls. The enemy is well positioned, sniping the exit points of your cloud ladders and maximizing the effectiveness of their 300 thousand archers. Almost none of your troops make it onto the walls alive, and those few who do are quickly cut down by the 200 thousand infantry supporting the archers. There are simply too many enemy archers for your cloud ladders to safely deploy your troops.
You rue your decision of not attacking the gate with your ballistae, but now it is too late as they have been destroyed. The defenders slaughter each wave of your soldiers, who reach the top of their cloud ladder only to be outnumbered and outmaneuvered like the wave before them. In desperation, you send your 400 thousand infantry up the cloud ladders as well, but they fare only slightly better and are eventually decimated as well. Soon you see your 600 thousand foot soldiers dwindle to only a few thousand. You feel abject failure.
You have lost most of your troops, and Min is certainly not going to open his doors, so you have no choice but to tell your troops to turn back. However, your colonels have had enough of your idiocy and decide it is time for a new leader. You can't blame them; after all you did just blow a chance at victory. Your colonels execute you on the spot. Soon they start bickering amongst themselves about how to divide power and none achieves the dream you once had of uniting China.
This is the result you were looking for. Now you finally get the chance to use your cloud ladders.
They slowly approach the walls, with your archers forming long lines behind them. Your 400 thousand infantry can only wait outside the castle, anxious to enter the fray.
You watch as your archers crawl out of your cloud ladders and attempt to assail the walls. The enemy is well positioned, sniping the exit points of your cloud ladders and maximizing the effectiveness of their 300 thousand archers. Almost none of your troops make it onto the walls alive, and those few who do are quickly cut down by the 200 thousand infantry supporting the archers. There are simply too many enemy archers for your cloud ladders to safely deploy your troops.
You rue your decision of not attacking the gate with your ballistae, but now it is too late as they have been destroyed. The defenders slaughter each wave of your soldiers, who reach the top of their cloud ladder only to be outnumbered and outmaneuvered like the wave before them. In desperation, you send your 400 thousand infantry up the cloud ladders as well, but they fare only slightly better and are eventually decimated as well. Soon you see your 600 thousand foot soldiers dwindle to only a few thousand. You feel abject failure.
You have lost most of your troops, and Min is certainly not going to open his doors, so you have no choice but to tell your troops to turn back. However, your colonels have had enough of your idiocy and decide it is time for a new leader. You can't blame them; after all you did just blow a chance at victory. Your colonels execute you on the spot. Soon they start bickering amongst themselves about how to divide power and none achieves the dream you once had of uniting China.
