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Message: <blockquote data-quote="painandgreed" data-source="post: 1979280" data-attributes="member: 24969">Not only magic but also rogues. A world where creepy crawly people can up up and over walls without too much effort would also change things in a seige. Raiding parties could go out at night or, more likely, in over the wall to open the gates. The reason for seiges is because it was too hard to actually take the city over by force. Seiges are expensive for the attacker too as they must keep a force surrounding the siged city that is large enough to keep people from getting in or out while also being strong enough to repel any counter attack that may break that line. That's a lot of money and food for the attacker to keep an army around a city instead of off fighting other armies.To address how long they can hold out depends greatly on when the seige took place to begin with. If it happened right after the fall harvest and they had time to move everything inside the city, they should have enough food till at least next harvest time (assuming an agricultural basis rather than something like fishing). before the harvest, they might have been able to preform a partial or early harvest and gotten a fraction of that inside the city. Given that seed stock would be about 25% of normal harvest, they have enough for another four months from that which takes them through December. Assuming that livestock make up about 20% of the annual diet and that this involves cullign abotu 20% of the entire stock. If they managed to move all the livestock into the city and butchered it once the seige started, that might give them anothe year of supplies. So, under best possible conditions, if the attackers sieged the city after august and the defenders had plenty of time to move all food stuffs and livestock int the city before hand, they might have enough for the next two years and four months. Of course, starvation would occur immediatly after that even if the siege broke because they would have nothing to grow more food from. In a worst case senario, when the seige happened in summer before harvest, and the weren't able to move livestock into the city, problems would occur almost immediatly come august when last years harvest runs out.</blockquote>

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