Siege Troops

Bards have sung legends of many great battles, but perhaps the most memorable of these are those fought to claim massive fortresses. These places are particularly difficult to seize, making them important points of interest in any war. For as long as walls have been built, people have been figuring out creative ways to tear them down. Successful assaults of such strongholds are often the turning point in long-fought wars of attrition.

Troop-scale combat: The following characters are ‘troop scale.’ That means a single stat block does not represent one person. Instead, a single stat block represents an entire group of soldiers. Battlefields for these soldiers would have zones as large, army sized swaths of land. See Sundry Sunday (#46) for guidelines on how to use troop-scale characters.

Trebuchet Troop

Aspects

Three trebuchets with 15 attending soldiers • Vulnerable to attack • Lightly armed and armored attendants • Flammable frame

Skills

• +4 Boulder fling (Shoot)
• +1 Stay on target (Will)
• +1 Training regiments (Physique and Athletics)

Health

Troop stress

[1

Morale stress

[1] • [2]

Stunts

Siege Weapon

The trebuchet troop gets +2 to attacks and advantage creation when using Boulder fling (Shoot) against structures or characters hiding in structures

Mobile Stair Towers

Aspects

Three tall wheelable towers with 50 attending soldiers • Flammable frame • Lightly armed and armored attendants

Skills

• +2 Engineered for war (Crafts)
• +2 Strength training (Physique)
• +1 Defend the towers (Fight)

Health

Troop stress

[1] • [2]

Morale stress

[1] • [2]

Stunts

Mobile Staircase

When the mobile stair towers are adjacent to a wall or tower with a walkable top, soldiers can ascend or descend the staircase within to negate any negative aspects related to scaling the wall. Additionally, the attendants of the mobile stair towers can create an advantage to make the towers Locked on to the walls using Engineered for war (Crafts).

Battering Ram Ogres

Aspects

Three large battering rams carted by 6 trained ogres • Flammable frame • Brutish ogres

Skills

• +4 Smash! (Fight) +2 Tough skin (Physique and Will)
• -2 Puny minds (Lore, Investigate, Notice)
• -1 Big and slow (Athletics)

Health

Troop stress

[1] • [2] • [3]

Morale stress

[1] • [2] • [3]

Stunts

Battering Rams

This troop is immune to penalties related to the difficulties of attacking a structure