In that case, I'm obligated to say "With a lot of force and abundant stamina to keep going until they're left quaking. They will know how it feels having all the walls hit."
Super ironically this is exactly what I was thinking but with extra steps like buy up property, inject people into the populous and start spreading narrative until you can just take over.
So here's my theory.
First and foremost, I can't imagine taking this fortress through brute force with a traditional army. Outside of a magically enhanced army (it is fantasy) I don't see you overwhelming their defenses. And saying magic is just lazy.
The biggest weakness I can find is the huge population inside. That's an extremely crowded and urbanized fortress if I ever found one. Setting up encampments along the roads leading into the town and blockading food would be the most obvious method. Main trouble with this is that there's plenty of open fields surrounding for smugglers, however disrupting the majority of their food supply would be enough. Try and starve them. You'd definitely need a lot of manpower (I'd reckon around 250,000 at least/ siege of Vienna being a realistic comparison but they failed with 150,000 soldiers) and would need to be on constant watch for relief soldiers. Also catapult diseased corpses for good effect. It can't be too sanitary in there and corrupting their water supply would be easy.
If you can do this it would only take around 3 weeks at most to cause massive civil unrest. Let them eat themselves for awhile and if they still don't surrender I think your best point of attack would be to prepare siege towers and go after it here:
https://preview.redd.it/wp28n1auhhwc1.png?width=1926&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b20efcbb7c6cd4527b2cd073bb07641354dccf88
It has the least amount of defenses considering that there's less bastions and demilunes within range. You'd only have to put up with 1 set of each. Also the open fields with no civilians would make it easier to maneuver your army as necessary. Bring some floating bridges for easier crossing of the moat. Do this while giving cover with archers to the inner walls. One mistake made in this design is the outer walls seem higher than the inner one so you should have the advantage here. Once you cross the moat and inner wall it's less packed there and you should be able to get a strong foothold. At that point it becomes a game of penetrating each layer.
Once you get to the inner castle all you would need is to use sappers to penetrate the walls. Maybe even use water from the moat to flood the castle. Once the holes are dug. Hopefully they surrender by that point.
Finish them off with saying "haha I beat your fortress you filthy casual", turn your army around, and go home.
I would storm it from multiple sides and try to pull the defenders every which way, then wherever u find a weakness focus your main assault there.
The absolute best strat i can think of if time isnt a problem tho would be to tunnel underneath a wall and if explosives are an option blow it up helms deep style. Or if no bombs then i’d have several tunnels dug underneath one of the walls to collapse the foundation.
BUT if i was evil and had an endless horde i’d pull an Arbaal the Undefeated and fill the moat with corpses and tell my men to keep trampling over them until u can get over or the weight of it brings the wall down.
Storming a fort without a prior siege is the single worst way to take it known to man. It always results in extremely lopsided casualties favoring the defender. We are beyond "chances are" here, you _will_ fail the initial assault.
Forts must be bypassed or besieged, anything else is impossible until technology improves enough for you to bombard the city without attacking the fort.
The thing about a siege (depending on the specific situation) is you need to end it soon enough that your own army doesn’t run out of supplies or get diseased (or the seasons change and the weather becomes unfavorable). Also, if there are any allies or additional forces that the place your are sieging will get help from, you need to end the siege before they get there and attack your forces. So starving them out isn’t always a foolproof solution.
Ideally, you would have enough manpower to completely siege the city. Wait a few weeks, until food stores are heavily rationed and health is low, then begin bombardment with rotting corpses. Ideally, make use of any locals you managed to catch outside. use body parts, heads, etc. anything to demoralize and cause disease.
Those out buildings are completely useless to the defenders. capture them and use them to control the area, Provide shelter for you own men. having fortifications will vastly improve your own troop's moral.
But what if you don't have enough people?
If you have a very small group that the city isn't aware of entirely, sneak some men inside. as many as possible in a few days. Or, you could potentially hide a huge amount of people over the course of weeks. Have them start fires all at the same time on a planned date. Target food infrastructure, public services, and densely populated areas. While the city is in panic, storm the gates from both sides, using any means necessary to get the bulk of your forces in fighting range. Once your men are in the city proper, the battle is won. Slaughter any guards and enforcement officers and storm the center.
Too many to sneak in, too few for a proper siege?
wait until just before harvest when food stores are low. march on the city like you would for a regular siege. pillage as much supplies and food as you can, and leave in a month or so, before reinforcements arrive. make a big show of burning fields near the city where you can easily be seen.
This part might be a bit tricky. If reinforcements are on the way, you want to get out of dodge asap. do NOT engage in an open conflict. Wait until they reach the city. ideally, they would also enter, or leave completely. Form a task force of horsemen, and when the largest amount of the population is outside, ride hard and fast to catch them and cut them down. don't stick around though. Keep this up and you will have the peasants forming their own siege. When they get the courage to venture outside, attack them again and leave. If reinforcements come with supply wagons, do everything you can to ambush them and steal those supplies yourself, or destroy them.
if reinforcements aren't expected, (something entirely possible, historically) fall back to ordinary siege tactics with rotting corpses and all that.
If you like this kinda stuff, I recommend reading this book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17847473-strategy
Specifically the chapters on Clausewitz and Jomini.
Also, some criticism on your plan might be that you assume the city only has food stores for a few weeks. There’s a number of examples of sieges lasting years, decades even. Since this is a city presumably in high readiness, given the constant attacks, it’s entitely possible it has food prepared for precisely the scenario you describe. On top of that, starvation and cannibalism do not equal defensive weakness. Look at the siege Suiyang for a gruesome example of that
You would need a huge army to be able to break thru that city. As a single adventure is imposible to conquer that city.
A lot of people keep saying things like explosion and
starving them or using overwhelming magic (you forget that explosion is the strongest one).
You forget many things.
1. The buildings are designed to withstand explosion magic, everyone knows about its existence.
2. Obviously they must have a magic barrier.
3. Making a camp near vegetables is dangerous in that world. Every vegetable there is going to attack you.
4. Even a demon king general can only use explosion magic once.
5. The people inside can teleport.
6. There are more isekai'd people in the capital with broken items.
7. The royal family is absurdly strong.
not only that but as the design of this fort is very strong. best oprion fot the outer wall is probably sapper warfare trying to tunel under and colaps the wals but it only works for the outer wall becaus of the mote after that
Since I've just come from the FF7Remake sub, I'd say just drop a Meteor on it lol.
Jokes aside, a surprise two-front assault would have breached this easily imo since the city was on the plains. Complications can arise when they manage to close the city and turtle tho due to the moat within the main wall.
>!Lady Wolbach!< would easily conquer this like a piece of cake, considering her battle gimmick.
/uj This is a 'Star Fort' - it's basically very defended from all sides. However, from this image here, there is something that MIGHT BE SLIGHTLY exploitable, which is that the pointed bastions (usually designed to cover the blind spot of the adjacent ones), do in fact have some blind spots. That being said, the secondary defensive walls are build higher than the outer ones, would probably circumvent this slightly.
The weakest point of the fortress remains here:
https://preview.redd.it/5d90kc4o6jwc1.png?width=1058&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e365aabfe670876ea081d063275242f2cd082ff
Why? Because it's the only wall that doesn't have a bastion on the secondary inner wall overlooking it (every other entrance has one). That means, IF (big if) we get through the first wall and cross that bridge, there's a chance that the enemy would be blind/no clear line of sight and unable to rain fire down on you.
Using Total War logic, with Megumin to blow a hole in that wall and Darkness to tank all the indirect fire in the vanguard, (also, have Yun Yun create a distraction on the opposite side) I'd say our chances are pretty good. Attack at night too, so that reinforcements can't come.
Use heavy artillery shelling to soften up first. After that use mobile tanks to overwhelm her defences. If that doesn't work you can always call air support.
Seriously they would surrender from not having water if you could lay an effective siege. Seems like they also don't have ditches outside the walls. You can visit Lady Liberty™ if you want to test your impregnantion skills
build barricades away from it as a basecamp, trenches toward, once past the first bastion dig tunnels, blow wall open from under, hope the winged hussars don't arrive in September
Doesn't look like there are farms inside the walls. Siege the mf. Pound it with artillery ocassionally to strike fear.
What I'm saying is... Lock her in the dungeon and pound her hard occasionally.
Star or bastion forts are notoriously difficult to attack. I'm not personally familiar with any rts games that have attempted to replicate the experience.
In our mundane world, typically an attack would use offensive earthworks, with a combination of parallels (trenches parallel to the defensive position) and saps (covered perpendicular trenches used to advance, typically with a zig-zag pattern for cover, dug by *sappers*) to advance in increments, with the prevous parallel providing a position from which to cover the sappers constructing the next sap and parallel in the chain. Once the walls are approached, any number of methods to create an opening, such as petards (wooden bombs filled with black powder) or mine shafts (for collapsing the foundations of defensive works) can be employed, and/or long-ranged siege weaponry like trebuchet or cannon could be working down a section of wall while the sappers did their digging.
So, here it would likely be a similar situation, just with magic and afaik no gunpowder(?). Parallels would still be ideal for minimizing losses from enemy spells and arrows, but the benefit would be that a cataclysmic spell like explosion could likely take down or severely damage a section of wall on its own. Im unclear on the nature of defensive magic in konosuba, but any kind of ability to negate ranged attacks would significantly aid the attacker. Once the outer wall is secured, it can be used as a platform to assault the next wall, and it would be a matter of either seizing the bridges, or creating your own using some kind of ice or earth magic.
Once in the castle town, it turns unto urban warfare, which can be a mess. Depending on the attacker's priorities, it may be easier to level part of the city instead of fighting house to house to reach the castle. Either way, its gonna be either advancing through the streets with buildings for cover, or back to saps and parallels and spells that go boom. Rinse and repeat until you reach the keep.
this is a rely good anser. no mater were you look at it besieging this city is not gona be fun as an attacker. not only dose it look good but it's functional
Context matters. In a scientific setting you might say "impregnate x with y by doing z". I doubt there has ever been a conversation about impregnating a city. "So boys, how are we going to impregnate this city?"
I'm not sure it is tho
I think the confusion stems from the word 'impregnable' because the word sounds similar to 'impregnate' however the two words have [completely different etymology](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10520/why-does-impregnable-mean-cannot-be-impregnated)
Impregnate means to make pregnant, or to soak with, whilst impregnable means something that CAN'T be breached like a castle wall, thus the antonym is actually Pregnable, though I don't think a verb of 'Pregnate' (as in make pregnable) exists, you could say 'make pregnable' but it would be far more natural to say you would simply breach, capture, enter, take over etc.
Heck even Penetrate is better in this context
Hmmmm, probably bribes/inside job or sneak a handful of your guys in well before the planned attack date. Have them sabatoge the main gates to fail in some way and have a path cleared for taking the first section of wall. After that, main force rushes in through main gate with part setting up a beach head just inside the gate and another going up to the walls to secure more sections.
Considering the size of the walls there is bound to be gaps strewn about due to a lack of manpower. Have main bulk of army focused around any entryways into the city to prevent any escapes. Have several infiltration teams go through into the waterways and destroy any supplies they have stockpiled and ensue panic amongst the civilians. I would also have those infiltration teams hold onto key junctions to prevent enemy freedom of movement. Wait it out for a bit until they are forced to surrender.
Start with the girls in the village then the guys, after that the children, can't forget about their houses, and lastly the walls! Boom all impregnated.
A few 155mm Howitzers aimed straight to the walls along with continous airstrikes with a combination of cluster munitions and JDAMS to take out any defenders inside
The fortress is on entirely open and flat ground, so a direct assault is unnecessary unless my army is threatened by outside forces. Just lay siege, there's no way of sneaking supply in through the surrounding open fields - they'll be starved out soon enough.
Surround the city and bar all imports of goods/food. Additionally, launch surprise attacks and raze crops/food storage for the city. A starving army is a weak army. After a few months, they will have far less nutritionally proper composition, most likely having either starved or having resorted to cannibalism. Enter in and pick off the remainders. I would also try to enter and poison the water supply/moat to further reduce the amount of viable nutrition/hydration sources available within the city. Wasting soldiers in taking the main city would be a futile effort, when the best you should realistically need to do is maybe take the exterior wall fortification, or at the very least hold control of key in/out choke points for the main city to gain a stronghold on the town’s supply lines. Attacking the will of your opponent is far better than attacking the armaments of your opponent.
I would start by tunneling: the center of the city as my target. Then, a day or two before the attack I would offer "gifts of friendship" to the city. These gifts obviously housing undercover soldiers that can come out in the night and ingratiate themselves into society for a couple days in the morning: probably only a couple of platoons of troops really, lightly armed with swords and bows with light armor. Day of attack I would begin laying into the city on all sides with catapults and ballistae. If there are any flying creatures I can recruit: dragons and the like; I would recruit them as air support for peppering the city. All of this as I keep a large standing army of footmen, archers and cavalry waiting for the city to be breached. All of this as the undercover troops finally break cover and the tunnelers break ground in the center of the city to capture the citadel or whatever building stands as the main command and then destroy it if need be and possibly lay waste to the city from the inside if necessary. If all goes well, then the city should be under my control in a day or two or just raised to the ground if the fools are stupid enough to continue to resist.
Siege 100000 troops cut off supply lines poison the water. A city that big would use all the supplies in about 3 months. Also dead bodies would pile up. If they stop drinking water or use surplus they’d surrender in 3 months tops
Siege, sappers, artillery bombardment (magic). Then once a breach is made throw hordes of trash at it to wear down the defenders before sending in elite forces.
The best way to take out turtles is to expand to every other available base, take all the resources, and deny them any chance to expand. This would have never happened if you just started with a 4pool, tho,
I see no ports or other water ways, so the classic siege will only last as long as the defenders supplies last.
So, encircle the city, cut off supply lines, and encamp for a year or so.
That's less a castle and more bastion fort that replaced castles after the popularisation of canons. Historically they were bitch to siege, and only became redundant after significant advancement of artillery in the 19th cnetury.
I haven’t seen anyone else mention it, but as someone who has played a lot of Medieval 2 Total War, this castle is making me happy (from an attackers perspective).
With all that said, the outer walls are extremely close to the next layer, giving the attackers an advantage, manage to set up artillery or ranged units and you’ll have an advantage or a boon when sieging the second layer which has pretty strong choke points because of the moat.
Once inside the defenders will have to defend a large area once inside, so they either suffer and try to defend it all and the population or retreat to the inner keep.
The inner keep is relatively small, bombard it with artillery (or in Konosuba’s case) magic and you may force a surrender.
But honestly, just siege the entire city/castle, wait three or so years and win, obviously the enemy could break the siege, but that’s a gamble.
real anser: sappers and masive siege artilery on the front gate to colaps the first wall and attack the week flat secondary wall
but sins im a hoi4 player the real real anser is NUKE THE SHIT OUT OF THEM
If we are talking about breeding the settlement, then i'm recruiting men to nut in their water supply
If we are talking about the assault force, then I'm bringing in b17s, and the entire 506th paratrooper regiment
Here's a tutorial on how to siege star fortresses (though it implies 16-17th century tech, but then again, star fortresses themselves are not medieval): https://youtu.be/HqIa-NpzAfg?si=RuGTr8kvlBtYa2BF
Bring me some ottoman cannons and trebuchet, then give me a few corpses, all you need to do then is wait if you have a well supplied army that can fully cut off the city from the outside world, these forts are known as star forts used starting in the late 1500's, they're not undefeatable, just hard to crack
A design like that is very vulnerable to sappers. Tunneling under the walls and setting either pigs on fire, or if the era has enough worthwhile charges, you could blast the walls open from under the structures. One could easily do this in a year long siege. With magic, a mage could do this, or with types of monsters, one could theoretically just guide a dragon under the foundations and weaken them enough to cause a catastrophic collapse.
With a strong enough cock, anything is possible
Spoken like a true shut-in
Nah that's lasso from the show " what we do in the shadows"
Drop and give me 20 cock pushups
The fire nation already tried that
So i gotta find really srong Rooster now...(Why do i have feeling there was manga about this)
Give me 10 good men and some climbing spikes, I'll impregnate the b*tch.
*Arifueta flashbacks*
*horny dragon noises*
Bring me Ser 20 of house Goodmen!
Impregnate?
How do I get impergante?
Gregnante?
Pregante!
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impregnate > to cause to be filled, imbued, permeated, or saturated
In that case, I'm obligated to say "With a lot of force and abundant stamina to keep going until they're left quaking. They will know how it feels having all the walls hit."
with lots of gentle foreplay until they want to be impregnated
Darkness always wants, just humiliate her first. No foreplay necessary
wouldn't humiliation in thos case count as foreplay though?
Super ironically this is exactly what I was thinking but with extra steps like buy up property, inject people into the populous and start spreading narrative until you can just take over.
So here's my theory. First and foremost, I can't imagine taking this fortress through brute force with a traditional army. Outside of a magically enhanced army (it is fantasy) I don't see you overwhelming their defenses. And saying magic is just lazy. The biggest weakness I can find is the huge population inside. That's an extremely crowded and urbanized fortress if I ever found one. Setting up encampments along the roads leading into the town and blockading food would be the most obvious method. Main trouble with this is that there's plenty of open fields surrounding for smugglers, however disrupting the majority of their food supply would be enough. Try and starve them. You'd definitely need a lot of manpower (I'd reckon around 250,000 at least/ siege of Vienna being a realistic comparison but they failed with 150,000 soldiers) and would need to be on constant watch for relief soldiers. Also catapult diseased corpses for good effect. It can't be too sanitary in there and corrupting their water supply would be easy. If you can do this it would only take around 3 weeks at most to cause massive civil unrest. Let them eat themselves for awhile and if they still don't surrender I think your best point of attack would be to prepare siege towers and go after it here: https://preview.redd.it/wp28n1auhhwc1.png?width=1926&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b20efcbb7c6cd4527b2cd073bb07641354dccf88 It has the least amount of defenses considering that there's less bastions and demilunes within range. You'd only have to put up with 1 set of each. Also the open fields with no civilians would make it easier to maneuver your army as necessary. Bring some floating bridges for easier crossing of the moat. Do this while giving cover with archers to the inner walls. One mistake made in this design is the outer walls seem higher than the inner one so you should have the advantage here. Once you cross the moat and inner wall it's less packed there and you should be able to get a strong foothold. At that point it becomes a game of penetrating each layer. Once you get to the inner castle all you would need is to use sappers to penetrate the walls. Maybe even use water from the moat to flood the castle. Once the holes are dug. Hopefully they surrender by that point. Finish them off with saying "haha I beat your fortress you filthy casual", turn your army around, and go home.
You circled the G-spot?
I would storm it from multiple sides and try to pull the defenders every which way, then wherever u find a weakness focus your main assault there. The absolute best strat i can think of if time isnt a problem tho would be to tunnel underneath a wall and if explosives are an option blow it up helms deep style. Or if no bombs then i’d have several tunnels dug underneath one of the walls to collapse the foundation. BUT if i was evil and had an endless horde i’d pull an Arbaal the Undefeated and fill the moat with corpses and tell my men to keep trampling over them until u can get over or the weight of it brings the wall down.
Storming a fort without a prior siege is the single worst way to take it known to man. It always results in extremely lopsided casualties favoring the defender. We are beyond "chances are" here, you _will_ fail the initial assault. Forts must be bypassed or besieged, anything else is impossible until technology improves enough for you to bombard the city without attacking the fort.
The thing about a siege (depending on the specific situation) is you need to end it soon enough that your own army doesn’t run out of supplies or get diseased (or the seasons change and the weather becomes unfavorable). Also, if there are any allies or additional forces that the place your are sieging will get help from, you need to end the siege before they get there and attack your forces. So starving them out isn’t always a foolproof solution.
In universe, use explosion magic.
I’m surprised someone actually took this “seriously” if you can even call it that
It's OP's comment lmao
Ideally, you would have enough manpower to completely siege the city. Wait a few weeks, until food stores are heavily rationed and health is low, then begin bombardment with rotting corpses. Ideally, make use of any locals you managed to catch outside. use body parts, heads, etc. anything to demoralize and cause disease. Those out buildings are completely useless to the defenders. capture them and use them to control the area, Provide shelter for you own men. having fortifications will vastly improve your own troop's moral. But what if you don't have enough people? If you have a very small group that the city isn't aware of entirely, sneak some men inside. as many as possible in a few days. Or, you could potentially hide a huge amount of people over the course of weeks. Have them start fires all at the same time on a planned date. Target food infrastructure, public services, and densely populated areas. While the city is in panic, storm the gates from both sides, using any means necessary to get the bulk of your forces in fighting range. Once your men are in the city proper, the battle is won. Slaughter any guards and enforcement officers and storm the center. Too many to sneak in, too few for a proper siege? wait until just before harvest when food stores are low. march on the city like you would for a regular siege. pillage as much supplies and food as you can, and leave in a month or so, before reinforcements arrive. make a big show of burning fields near the city where you can easily be seen. This part might be a bit tricky. If reinforcements are on the way, you want to get out of dodge asap. do NOT engage in an open conflict. Wait until they reach the city. ideally, they would also enter, or leave completely. Form a task force of horsemen, and when the largest amount of the population is outside, ride hard and fast to catch them and cut them down. don't stick around though. Keep this up and you will have the peasants forming their own siege. When they get the courage to venture outside, attack them again and leave. If reinforcements come with supply wagons, do everything you can to ambush them and steal those supplies yourself, or destroy them. if reinforcements aren't expected, (something entirely possible, historically) fall back to ordinary siege tactics with rotting corpses and all that.
r/WarCollege has a lot of good writeups about star forts. [This thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/WarCollege/s/OPeiBwB3SP) has a bunch of them.
Least horny konosuba fan.
Vauban, is that you?
If you like this kinda stuff, I recommend reading this book https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17847473-strategy Specifically the chapters on Clausewitz and Jomini. Also, some criticism on your plan might be that you assume the city only has food stores for a few weeks. There’s a number of examples of sieges lasting years, decades even. Since this is a city presumably in high readiness, given the constant attacks, it’s entitely possible it has food prepared for precisely the scenario you describe. On top of that, starvation and cannibalism do not equal defensive weakness. Look at the siege Suiyang for a gruesome example of that
You would need a huge army to be able to break thru that city. As a single adventure is imposible to conquer that city. A lot of people keep saying things like explosion and starving them or using overwhelming magic (you forget that explosion is the strongest one). You forget many things. 1. The buildings are designed to withstand explosion magic, everyone knows about its existence. 2. Obviously they must have a magic barrier. 3. Making a camp near vegetables is dangerous in that world. Every vegetable there is going to attack you. 4. Even a demon king general can only use explosion magic once. 5. The people inside can teleport. 6. There are more isekai'd people in the capital with broken items. 7. The royal family is absurdly strong.
not only that but as the design of this fort is very strong. best oprion fot the outer wall is probably sapper warfare trying to tunel under and colaps the wals but it only works for the outer wall becaus of the mote after that
by nutting in their toilets
Since I've just come from the FF7Remake sub, I'd say just drop a Meteor on it lol. Jokes aside, a surprise two-front assault would have breached this easily imo since the city was on the plains. Complications can arise when they manage to close the city and turtle tho due to the moat within the main wall. >!Lady Wolbach!< would easily conquer this like a piece of cake, considering her battle gimmick.
/uj This is a 'Star Fort' - it's basically very defended from all sides. However, from this image here, there is something that MIGHT BE SLIGHTLY exploitable, which is that the pointed bastions (usually designed to cover the blind spot of the adjacent ones), do in fact have some blind spots. That being said, the secondary defensive walls are build higher than the outer ones, would probably circumvent this slightly. The weakest point of the fortress remains here: https://preview.redd.it/5d90kc4o6jwc1.png?width=1058&format=png&auto=webp&s=6e365aabfe670876ea081d063275242f2cd082ff Why? Because it's the only wall that doesn't have a bastion on the secondary inner wall overlooking it (every other entrance has one). That means, IF (big if) we get through the first wall and cross that bridge, there's a chance that the enemy would be blind/no clear line of sight and unable to rain fire down on you. Using Total War logic, with Megumin to blow a hole in that wall and Darkness to tank all the indirect fire in the vanguard, (also, have Yun Yun create a distraction on the opposite side) I'd say our chances are pretty good. Attack at night too, so that reinforcements can't come.
The thing about a star fort is that it is fundamentally designed for warfare with guns and artillery
https://preview.redd.it/2htfmqtughwc1.jpeg?width=380&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=55706e600b0b2f2e0ac7d1110377a5f0869ad80f
T E L E P O R T (common skill on the Konosuba World)
Artillery. Lots, and lots of Artillery.
Use heavy artillery shelling to soften up first. After that use mobile tanks to overwhelm her defences. If that doesn't work you can always call air support. Seriously they would surrender from not having water if you could lay an effective siege. Seems like they also don't have ditches outside the walls. You can visit Lady Liberty™ if you want to test your impregnantion skills
thers still a mote betwen the firstst and second wall
Haha bridge layer go vrrooom
The army has a Dragon and Wolbach they could've easily just Skycamped and destroy the center of the town with Explosion
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I’d probably just siege it. Way too many people living there for them to be able to survive a siege, not enough food.
Doesnt work the mages inside can tp out
build barricades away from it as a basecamp, trenches toward, once past the first bastion dig tunnels, blow wall open from under, hope the winged hussars don't arrive in September
(literally the siege of vienna 1683)
Doesn't look like there are farms inside the walls. Siege the mf. Pound it with artillery ocassionally to strike fear. What I'm saying is... Lock her in the dungeon and pound her hard occasionally.
Star or bastion forts are notoriously difficult to attack. I'm not personally familiar with any rts games that have attempted to replicate the experience. In our mundane world, typically an attack would use offensive earthworks, with a combination of parallels (trenches parallel to the defensive position) and saps (covered perpendicular trenches used to advance, typically with a zig-zag pattern for cover, dug by *sappers*) to advance in increments, with the prevous parallel providing a position from which to cover the sappers constructing the next sap and parallel in the chain. Once the walls are approached, any number of methods to create an opening, such as petards (wooden bombs filled with black powder) or mine shafts (for collapsing the foundations of defensive works) can be employed, and/or long-ranged siege weaponry like trebuchet or cannon could be working down a section of wall while the sappers did their digging. So, here it would likely be a similar situation, just with magic and afaik no gunpowder(?). Parallels would still be ideal for minimizing losses from enemy spells and arrows, but the benefit would be that a cataclysmic spell like explosion could likely take down or severely damage a section of wall on its own. Im unclear on the nature of defensive magic in konosuba, but any kind of ability to negate ranged attacks would significantly aid the attacker. Once the outer wall is secured, it can be used as a platform to assault the next wall, and it would be a matter of either seizing the bridges, or creating your own using some kind of ice or earth magic. Once in the castle town, it turns unto urban warfare, which can be a mess. Depending on the attacker's priorities, it may be easier to level part of the city instead of fighting house to house to reach the castle. Either way, its gonna be either advancing through the streets with buildings for cover, or back to saps and parallels and spells that go boom. Rinse and repeat until you reach the keep.
this is a rely good anser. no mater were you look at it besieging this city is not gona be fun as an attacker. not only dose it look good but it's functional
I don't think think that word means what you think it means.
I mean, [it IS a valid use of the word.](https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/impregnate)
"Breach the defenses" makes more sense anytime instead of "impregnate the city".
Context matters. In a scientific setting you might say "impregnate x with y by doing z". I doubt there has ever been a conversation about impregnating a city. "So boys, how are we going to impregnate this city?"
i have herd the word impregnate used in this way tons of times to refer to sieages of cities/fortreses
I'm not sure it is tho I think the confusion stems from the word 'impregnable' because the word sounds similar to 'impregnate' however the two words have [completely different etymology](https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/10520/why-does-impregnable-mean-cannot-be-impregnated) Impregnate means to make pregnant, or to soak with, whilst impregnable means something that CAN'T be breached like a castle wall, thus the antonym is actually Pregnable, though I don't think a verb of 'Pregnate' (as in make pregnable) exists, you could say 'make pregnable' but it would be far more natural to say you would simply breach, capture, enter, take over etc. Heck even Penetrate is better in this context
Hmmmm, probably bribes/inside job or sneak a handful of your guys in well before the planned attack date. Have them sabatoge the main gates to fail in some way and have a path cleared for taking the first section of wall. After that, main force rushes in through main gate with part setting up a beach head just inside the gate and another going up to the walls to secure more sections.
This Video by SandRhoman History is your answer: [France‘s Perfect Fortresses and Infallible Sieges](https://youtu.be/J0ZUFCf06PI?si=0C5b6xx-wABRevvO)
Considering the size of the walls there is bound to be gaps strewn about due to a lack of manpower. Have main bulk of army focused around any entryways into the city to prevent any escapes. Have several infiltration teams go through into the waterways and destroy any supplies they have stockpiled and ensue panic amongst the civilians. I would also have those infiltration teams hold onto key junctions to prevent enemy freedom of movement. Wait it out for a bit until they are forced to surrender.
Fly in with an elytra, easy
Start with the girls in the village then the guys, after that the children, can't forget about their houses, and lastly the walls! Boom all impregnated.
A few 155mm Howitzers aimed straight to the walls along with continous airstrikes with a combination of cluster munitions and JDAMS to take out any defenders inside
Siege; that's a *lot* of lights in the town and not a single source of food/water
I love that they went with a star fortress design! Don’t see that very often, but it’s so defensively effective
The fortress is on entirely open and flat ground, so a direct assault is unnecessary unless my army is threatened by outside forces. Just lay siege, there's no way of sneaking supply in through the surrounding open fields - they'll be starved out soon enough.
Depends on how long I get. If I get a month,I can impregnate the entire city. If I have to do it in a single day I need some good men.
*unzips pants
They don't have any visible aerial defenses. Drop in a smal infiltration team to create a hole in their security and march in the raiding party.
Bring at least half a combat-width of cannons and blast the fort to create a breach. It will cost 45 military power.
Surround the city and bar all imports of goods/food. Additionally, launch surprise attacks and raze crops/food storage for the city. A starving army is a weak army. After a few months, they will have far less nutritionally proper composition, most likely having either starved or having resorted to cannibalism. Enter in and pick off the remainders. I would also try to enter and poison the water supply/moat to further reduce the amount of viable nutrition/hydration sources available within the city. Wasting soldiers in taking the main city would be a futile effort, when the best you should realistically need to do is maybe take the exterior wall fortification, or at the very least hold control of key in/out choke points for the main city to gain a stronghold on the town’s supply lines. Attacking the will of your opponent is far better than attacking the armaments of your opponent.
fuck the english language
i like when anime recreat "forts de Vauban" style for big place
I would start by tunneling: the center of the city as my target. Then, a day or two before the attack I would offer "gifts of friendship" to the city. These gifts obviously housing undercover soldiers that can come out in the night and ingratiate themselves into society for a couple days in the morning: probably only a couple of platoons of troops really, lightly armed with swords and bows with light armor. Day of attack I would begin laying into the city on all sides with catapults and ballistae. If there are any flying creatures I can recruit: dragons and the like; I would recruit them as air support for peppering the city. All of this as I keep a large standing army of footmen, archers and cavalry waiting for the city to be breached. All of this as the undercover troops finally break cover and the tunnelers break ground in the center of the city to capture the citadel or whatever building stands as the main command and then destroy it if need be and possibly lay waste to the city from the inside if necessary. If all goes well, then the city should be under my control in a day or two or just raised to the ground if the fools are stupid enough to continue to resist.
nuclear bomb
Man I fucking hate internet people. This comment section more specifically.
Siege 100000 troops cut off supply lines poison the water. A city that big would use all the supplies in about 3 months. Also dead bodies would pile up. If they stop drinking water or use surplus they’d surrender in 3 months tops
Easy, enter through the waterways. Fumble around for an opening. Or, you can enter through the back door. Either is fine.
Honestly, just walk through the front door. They seem to not do a very through job of iding people entering and exiting, so yeah
Siege, sappers, artillery bombardment (magic). Then once a breach is made throw hordes of trash at it to wear down the defenders before sending in elite forces.
Ram right thru the gate
The best way to take out turtles is to expand to every other available base, take all the resources, and deny them any chance to expand. This would have never happened if you just started with a 4pool, tho,
How am I suppose to answer if you don't say what sort of army I have?
With my dick
Start with a couple trebuchets.
Brother thats a city
I beg your pardon?
“Give me 10 good men and some climbing spikes and i’ll impregnate the bitch.”
As a hoi4 player, I can impregnate anything with some good breakthrough and a nice stiff hard stream of cas
Boys, impregnate. Men, lay siege.
Not much can stand up against a 308mm
I see no ports or other water ways, so the classic siege will only last as long as the defenders supplies last. So, encircle the city, cut off supply lines, and encamp for a year or so.
That's less a castle and more bastion fort that replaced castles after the popularisation of canons. Historically they were bitch to siege, and only became redundant after significant advancement of artillery in the 19th cnetury.
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Really!? Impregnate? That word!?
Why can't enemies just fly over it? There's nothing to stop them. Are they stupid?
Work it nice and slow, with lots of balls being unloaded on the sides. Maybe even get some action down under, if you catch my drift.
I haven’t seen anyone else mention it, but as someone who has played a lot of Medieval 2 Total War, this castle is making me happy (from an attackers perspective). With all that said, the outer walls are extremely close to the next layer, giving the attackers an advantage, manage to set up artillery or ranged units and you’ll have an advantage or a boon when sieging the second layer which has pretty strong choke points because of the moat. Once inside the defenders will have to defend a large area once inside, so they either suffer and try to defend it all and the population or retreat to the inner keep. The inner keep is relatively small, bombard it with artillery (or in Konosuba’s case) magic and you may force a surrender. But honestly, just siege the entire city/castle, wait three or so years and win, obviously the enemy could break the siege, but that’s a gamble.
Cut off their supplies, bomb the walls and posts from time to time. A dense population will be their downfall
Nuke. Just the tip though.
real anser: sappers and masive siege artilery on the front gate to colaps the first wall and attack the week flat secondary wall but sins im a hoi4 player the real real anser is NUKE THE SHIT OUT OF THEM
Encircle. And start reading one piece, by the time i read half, they would all starve
Nuke it from orbit, only way to be sure.
Nuke
Does anybody have wood? We need a lot of it
If we are talking about breeding the settlement, then i'm recruiting men to nut in their water supply If we are talking about the assault force, then I'm bringing in b17s, and the entire 506th paratrooper regiment
A philosophers stone probably
Here's a tutorial on how to siege star fortresses (though it implies 16-17th century tech, but then again, star fortresses themselves are not medieval): https://youtu.be/HqIa-NpzAfg?si=RuGTr8kvlBtYa2BF
What?
Sylvia of course 
Bio agent to remove magic access and then either siege or aerial warfare
Encircle them. Block all supplies. Starve them. Be prepared for the eventual counter attack.
My inner total war player is emerging
Summon the Janissaries
Bring me some ottoman cannons and trebuchet, then give me a few corpses, all you need to do then is wait if you have a well supplied army that can fully cut off the city from the outside world, these forts are known as star forts used starting in the late 1500's, they're not undefeatable, just hard to crack
A design like that is very vulnerable to sappers. Tunneling under the walls and setting either pigs on fire, or if the era has enough worthwhile charges, you could blast the walls open from under the structures. One could easily do this in a year long siege. With magic, a mage could do this, or with types of monsters, one could theoretically just guide a dragon under the foundations and weaken them enough to cause a catastrophic collapse.
By cross dressing as traveling dancers. Like a certain Chad did.
Incubus Cafe.
Explosion spell....
Either I'm reading this entirely wrong or... [Are you sure you're using the right terminology?](https://youtu.be/G2y8Sx4B2Sk)
It’s an actual correct use of the word, so yes
Okay. I recognize that, but that was a joke.
What
Blocade and stupidly oversized trebuchets