User blog comment:Leolab/User Siege Tourney, Round 1 of 91: Leolab vs Utter Noob/@comment-5232784-20130306222359

1. Leo's forces have a much greater versatality when it comes to weaponry and tactics. The variety he has is jaw dropping, and the rivited plate armor idea is a very interesting choice, making me think of the rivited armor that used to be on warships.

2. Leo brings to this battle greek fire and pieces of dead bodies by means of trebuchets. Trebuchets were among the pinnacles of Medieval military tech. To have those suckers launch Greek fire...That's going to be terrifying. Even more so when you launch dead bodyparts over city walls, because that's a good way to spread disease. I believe the Mongols used to catapult the corpses of horses over city walls for the same reason: psyching the populace way out, and spreading disease. Psychological and biological warfare all in one stroke.

3. Beastman's weapons include a lot of Roman era contrivances, such as Gladius swords and Pilums. while Leo brings to the table weapons like the Talwar sword, Katar dagger, Broadswords, Longswords, all weapons made centuries after the roman era. Though the Romans had some excellent devices for warfare, they would lose out to the better metallurgy and length of the latter's swords.

4. Utter Noob does have two major advantages here: 1, she has waaay more cannons (8 to 3), and she also has a considerable number of crossbowmen, well over 4000 compared to the 1000 or so for Leo. I do not know whether the arbalest or the Polish Crossbow is better (rusty on Crossbow tech), but the fact that the Polish can be fitted with a bayonet speaks well of the weapon, so I think it is the better. The Cannons alone will probably outdistance the trebuchets, and perhaps pluck them off before they can be of full, devistating use.

This is a hard, and tricky match. While Leo has the advantage in versatality, tactics, tech (Greek fire, later medieval weaponry superiority) and psych advantage (Greek fire and dead corpses), Noob had the advantage in crossbow superiority (numbers and bayonet) and superior number in cannons. Combine these numbers with those serving to man catapults and archers (among the 3,000 troops mentioned above for this and Tseudo formation work, should any breach the walls) and you have an amazing long range superiority. I feel that in order to have a sucessful siege, you have to be able to fire more projectiles into the air than the besieged. Otherwise you are going to be a very pelted invasion force. Though Leolab wins in most X-factors, I give this to Noob due to projectile superiority.

UTTER NOOB WINS