siege

Here's how it works. Say you want to attack a city that's well-defended, and you know you probably can't force your way in. You do have enough troops to control the traffic to and from the city, however, so you place an embargo on everything. Food, water, supplies, you name it, they'll eventually run out of it. Poisoning the water supply will speed things up, but be sure to find a clean source for your own troops.

While you wait for the residents of the city to surrender, you can take your sweet time in attacking. Dig tunnels toward the city walls and perhaps you can get enough explosives under the wall to create a breach. You can also use a catapult to hurl things at the city. Impact projectiles (rocks, for example) are traditional, but you can also throw in disgusting stuff like carrion and feces. This will make the residents hurl, and perhaps give them a disease problem.

If they haven't given up yet, try your luck with other siege weaponry like a rolling tower to get your troops into the city. Remember that most of the people they kill will be grunts; the important people will often have locked themselves in a stronghold with supplies. You may then have a second siege on your hands.

Sometimes the best way to end a siege is to offer generous terms of surrender -- all civilians to be spared, all soldiers to be disarmed, and only the officers to be hacked to pieces.

Nearly all the sound effects in this game were taken from the Terry Gilliam movie Time Bandits.

The game was written by Larry Froistad. It was given away for free in an issue of Interactive Entertainment, a short-lived CD-ROM magazine. The game has a built-in level editor.

This game is best known for its two joke character classes: War Chickens and Battle Cattle.

Siege is a silly, free puzzle game by Fallen Angel Industries, created with The Games Factory sometime in 2002. After picking one of six generals, you set up camp on one side of a surprisingly two-dimensional battlefield. You have a 6x5 grid on the top of the screen full of tiles in four flavors: Iron (gray arrow thing), Wood (green tree on brown), Fire (fireball!), and Magick (star thingy on green). By mixing these together (any tile can be switched with any other tile) on the bottom two rows and pressing enter, you build things like knights and dragons and archers, which march (or fly, or ride, or float) out of your castle (or giant skull, or evil tree fort, or tower), and usually end up getting eaten out by the bigger and badder thing your enemy just built. Eventually, either time runs out and a winner is declared, or one player's stronghold runs out of HP and a loser is exploded.

Siege has one big glaring problem: a missing dll. Specifically, cncs32.dll. It isnt that hard to find, however, with the magic of Google.

Generals: There are six generals. The power-to-technology scheme is pretty simple: The more HP the general has, the less complex the things are it can build. For example, Edward the Friendly can't even build KNIGHTS, but he can take quite a beating.

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Siege (?), n. [OE. sege, OF. siege, F. siege a seat, a siege; cf. It. seggia, seggio, zedio, a seat, asseggio, assedio, a siege, F. assi'eger to besiege, It. & LL. assediare, L. obsidium a siege, besieging; all ultimately fr. L. sedere to sit. See Sit, and cf. See, n.]

1.

A seat; especially, a royal seat; a throne.

Shak.

A stately siege of sovereign majesty, And thereon sat a woman gorgeous gay. Spenser.

In our great hall there stood a vacant chair . . . And Merlin called it "The siege perilous." Tennyson.

2.

Hence, place or situation; seat.

Ah! traitorous eyes, come out of your shameless siege forever. Painter (Palace of Pleasure).

3.

Rank; grade; station; estimation.

I fetch my life and being From men of royal siege. Shak.

4.

Passage of excrements; stool; fecal matter.

The siege of this mooncalf. Shak.

5.

The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade.

6.

Hence, a continued attempt to gain possession.

Love stood the siege, and would not yield his breast. Dryden.

7.

The floor of a glass-furnace.

8.

A workman's bench.

Knught.

Siege gun, a heavy gun for siege operations. -- Siege train, artillery adapted for attacking fortified places.

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Siege, v. t.

To besiege; to beset.

Through all the dangers that can siege The life of man. Buron.

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