Siege Command
A castle defense strategy game. Move archer squads and mason crews between four walls, pour boiling oil on rams and outguess an enemy commander who hunts your weakest wall across ever tougher nights.
Siege Command is a castle defense strategy game played from above your own fortress. Four walls, a handful of archer squads, a repair crew and a few cauldrons of boiling oil stand between an invading army and your keep. Each night lasts until dawn, and if any single wall crumbles to zero the castle is lost.
The twist is the enemy commander. Early on it attacks at random, but every night it gets smarter, probing for whichever wall has the lowest health and the fewest defenders. Later it sends small feints to drag your archers to one side before the real assault lands on the other, and it smells blood on a wall you have neglected. Ladders, archers, battering rams, catapults and siege towers arrive in escalating waves, so you must decide constantly: shift archers where the pressure is, send masons to patch cracks, or burn a cauldron on a ram before it breaks through.
Between nights you visit the war council and spend the gold you earned from kills and surviving the dark. Recruit squads, hire masons, thicken the walls, buy fire arrows or bigger cauldrons. It suits players who like tower defense and resource juggling more than reflexes. Tip: never leave a wall without archers for long, keep one cauldron ready for rams, and watch the red flashes that show where the next wave is heading.
How to play
Select a squad (click it, tap its card or press 1-7), then click a wall or press W A S D / the arrow keys to send it there. Archers shoot attackers on their wall, masons repair it. Click a glowing cauldron, or hold Shift and press a direction, to pour boiling oil; Space pours it on the busiest wall. Survive until dawn, then spend gold at the war council. If any wall reaches zero health, the castle falls. Your score counts defeated attackers and the walls you keep standing.
Controls
- Click / tap a squad, then a wall: Send it to that wall (or drag a squad onto a wall)
- 1-7: Select a squad
- W A S D / arrows: Send the selected squad north, west, south or east
- Shift + direction / tap cauldron: Pour boiling oil on that wall
- Space: Oil the busiest wall
- 1-6 at the war council: Buy upgrades between nights
- P / Esc, M, R: Pause, mute, restart
Category: Strategy games
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