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"A siege battle?"
After Hestia hurried back with the War Game format decided at the gods' meeting, Noah merely stroked his chin before smiling faintly.
"That works too."
"That works too?" Hestia said worriedly.
"It's a siege battle. They'll definitely commit a considerable number of troops. Besides, the Apollo Familia will be defending the city. Can you really capture a city defended by the elites of the entire Apollo Familia all by yourself?"
Normally, siege battles were a type of warfare only employed when there was no other choice.
After all, conquering an entire city often required paying an enormous price.
The attacking side not only needed a large number of siege weapons, such as catapults, battering rams, and ballistae, but also had to find a way to break through the gates and take the city. The defenders, on the other hand, occupied an absolute positional advantage and had the city as a shield. A simple rain of arrows could cause massive casualties.
Therefore, the basics of siege warfare dictated that one needed more than triple the enemy's manpower and supplies in order to steadily take a city.
Although this world had neither gunpowder nor shells, magic was no weaker than gunpowder and shells. Its power only surpassed them.
So, as the attacker, once Noah arrived beneath the city walls, wouldn't he be subjected to an unimaginable barrage of magic and buried alive beneath spell after spell?
No matter how one looked at it, a siege battle was simply far too difficult for Noah.
That was what Hestia and Bell thought.
"Captain." Bell gathered his courage.
"Then... let me fight too.