I crave violence - how to siege?

[Zepar72]

How does sieging work, for someone that has 0 experience except for outdated wrecking-ball bashing?
Do i make a ram and then . . i have to protect it 24 hours? What prevents others from destroying it? What do arrow towers do?

[Fostik]

Basically it's described here quite well on those pages. As always, tiny crucial details, community-found best practices and tactics never end up on a wiki.

https://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Thing_Challenge
https://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Catapult
https://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Battering_Ram
https://ringofbrodgar.com/wiki/Archery_Tower

[MightySheep]

u have to challenge the thingpeace (build 'thingpeace challenge' at thingwall) this puts whole region in a state where siege machines can operate

then you build ram at the enemy walls and after 24 hours the ram can bash the walls

if the enemy build archery tower behind the walls it shoots siege machines within its range and kills them, so generally you need to have ram further back outside the range of a potential archery tower and you need catapults to kill the archery tower. 1 ram 2 catapults is wat i normally see ppl do to deal with archery towers

however most hermits dont understand anything so you can build 1 ram directly next to wall and itl probably succeed

it takes 5 minutes for ram to be destroyed by hand (it requires some small amount of strength to prevent naked alts bashing them) so technically youre meant to guard it the whole time but you can also just throw shit gear on a naked alt and itl scare away any defenders

if anyone is still active they get a notification that a siege machine was built nearby but to begin with at the cost of 1 thingpeace challenge and 1 ram u can attempt to bash the walls of an afk place, gl