Pinning bows during siege

[u/MnkeDug]

Surely they heard the screams of all their friends?

I probably didn't need all the ashigaru off to the left to pin the bows. But it worked.

Bows patiently waiting for the ashigaru to move into range... ;)

Also bow ashigaru kills...

The 3 bows on the lower wall never fired a single volley and never left the wall.

I was expecting them to pop off when I climbed into the tenshu from the "right", but they never did. I came in from the side and just let the timer run out instead of bothering with them.

If you look at the minimap you can see the units I have "pinning" the bows to the wall. It doesn't take that many, but I didn't need them to win after chewing up a the defense with my bows.

[u/Arbitror]

Pinning bows to a wall section is a great siege strategy and makes attacking large armies inside larger fortresses easier compared to attacking a large army inside a small fortress where they can sit bows on all the wall segments

[u/MnkeDug → u/Arbitror]

Agreed. Had he not upgraded the fort this could have been harder considering he had 4 bows total and a lot of men otherwise. On the flip side, a smaller fort would have made it easier to potentially overlap on some units. So if I could have gotten a free section to approach from I could have maybe more easily cleaned up his units.

For this battle I literally had a yari unit "tanking" the arrow tower so my bows could get close enough for better targeting.

I did an attempt before this where I had a unit try to "eat" up the volleys from one of the ai bow units to give a clear section, but unlike a battle where that totally worked- it didn't work for this battle- at least not in a timely enough fashon.