City Combat

This guide is for the Gathering Storm Ruleset Earlier sets will have some differences like mounted being able to use battering rams. City Combat Combat against cities uses standard combat mechanics with some exceptions and alterations. Most notably; The city defence strength is a modified calculation of many factors as detailed in this guide. If the city has walls it severely limits a unit’s abilities to attack the cities and siege equipment typically must be used. A city can be put under siege to stop it healing between moves. Combat against a walled city counts as 2 combats. 1 to damage the wall and 1 to damage the garrison within. Both are separate combat rolls. A city’s garrison must be reduced to 0 HP to capture a city. You are not guaranteed to take a city with 0 walls and 0 garrison if you use a very weak unit. If you take enough hit points to be destroyed, you fail to take the city. You cannot capture a city (by moving into it) with non-military units, ranged units, siege/support units or air units (helicopters are not considered air units) General City Combat Rules A city does not gain support bonus from adjacent friendly troops A city does not count as a flanking unit but any unit inside it does following normal flanking rules. A unit inside a city cannot be targeted directly. A unit inside an encampment which has been captured while the city remains in enemy hands is targeted. A walled city reduces all melee, cavalry and anti Cavalry damage to 15% against the wall.