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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack99" data-source="post: 5170203" data-attributes="member: 53135">In my campaign, the hometown/base of operations of my players is about to be attacked by a small horde of orcs. One of the main BBEG's, a disciple of Asmodeus has duped the orcs clans into allying with the purpose of sacking Fallcrest. The disciple needs unrestricted access to the town and castle in order to gain possession of an artifact.Now, the question is, how to run this siege/war.So far, in past campaigns, I have tried a couple of different approaches:1) Using One Bad Egg's Hardboiled Armies, I created army units and the players ran a war on a big scale, controlling units of several thousand soldiers, maneuvering on the battlefield.2) During the siege of a fey town attacked by trolls, goblins and other fey menaces, the PC's got key targets (opposing army's leaders) which they took out one by one, while sneaking around behind enemy lines.3) During yet another siege, the PC's were just there - meaning that they participated in a lot of different skirmishes, but without any specific goal other than whichever the PC's came up with themselves.So, I was wondering what other cool ways there are to run the siege of a town/castle?I play 4e, but a skill challenge is not an option for this one.Thanks in advance.</blockquote>