Wow, i haven't looked at this game in most of a year and was bored and trolling around for something to look at.
Thank you MadNomad for existing (so fun to read, made me feel good about myself) but seriously people are trying to have a conversation.
I was with CoS when we were tusselling with the Korens (they were generally being douches locally, trashing spruce caps and hermits and stuff who we were making friends with), it was perhaps the most fun i have had playing the game, both sides were reasonably matched and we had some cool running battles. Unfortunately they were more interested in being seen as scary and didn't like the fact we wouldn't roll over for them so they called in their faction friends who came in all big dick and 'we will bring 50 stated up dudes and wipe you out', jacked the Korens with food and equipment, then accused us of being faction related (cant even remember which factions were involved

) to make themselves feel like it was alright for them to do so. We had no option but to ask peeps for help after that and it quickly lost its charm, we all got bored and moved on to other things, think they did too cause our walls didn't fall until our claim did. Funniest part of all was our village had peeps from multiple factions from previous worlds that weren't interested in faction crap, including the mob that showed up to bully us.
Long story short it was fun for us until the factions got involved.
Seige wise: we were sieged multiple times, we had players from all over the world so someone was almost always online. Mostly it was delay, shame and annoy the attackers until we had enough guys around to launch a sally and trash the ram. Realistically they would have had to beat us in a fight to get in which seems legit to me, not too many villages have fallen to siege where you didn't have to beat the occupants in a fight or burn away months of your time.
PS sorry for the necro, but this was the second conversation down