Wanted to cross-post this here as well, from the Medieval board, but the system timed out on me.
I'm curious if there are any good, notable sieges that might make for an interesting, mini-campaign style game, in any of the following eras, and geographical locations:
- HYW from Crecy to Agincourt, and beyond
- Burgundian Wars
- French Ordonnance from the mid-late 1400s
- Wars of the Roses
- Medieval Italy from the early/mid 1300s – 1400s
- Renaissance Italy from 1494 – 1525, or so
- Medieval or Renaissance Germany, 1300s – 1525, or so
- Medieval, or Renaissance Switzerland
The above date periods are preferred, but I might be able to adapt some others, as hypotheticals, without losing too much sleep.
By "good", I'm looking for a siege that didn't end quickly, and had some interesting nuances to it, e.g.:
- preliminary skirmishes or battles outside the castle, or city fortress' walls;
- some strategies by both sides to try to end the siege in their favor – asking for outside assistance/reinforcement, cannonading the walls, mining underneath defensive walls and towers, etc., etc.;
- sending out strike teams from the castle to destroy siege engines and encampments, or to kill lots of the besiegers when they aren't paying attention, etc., etc.;
- and, perhaps even with a final, pitched battle, either outside the walls, inside them, or with reinforcements that arrive to help lift the siege.
Can't say I'm really up on anything other than a few of the more notable ones, like New Orleans, Neuss, Castillon, and one or two mentioned in passing between 1494 and 1515, or so, in Italy during the renaissance.
So, what are your favorite sieges, and/or hypothetical scenarios that might have happened, with the real ones in history?
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