Okay... doesn't anyone know if this mission is actually possible? I don't know if there are any missions after this one but I have been DESTROYED every time I try it. Not to mention in the top left area of the map the game sometimes crashes because of the amount of fire particles on screen.
I have finally done it. I finally beat The Siege of Fort Hateno on Very Hard mode. I'm sure there must be many guides for this up by now but here's my own strategy in case you're interested. I don't use Cotera, by the way. My single playthrough of this game has been entirely on Very Hard mode except for the nine hours I had to spend grinding Unnatural Disaster on Easy mode for the fusion weapons. I've recently posted on this sub about some data for farming '++' seals in Mysterious Arrivals and in that post I reference an invaluable data-mine which is on the 'Board' of the AoC page of gamefaqs.com; here's that post I made right here--'post'.
So I began by trying to do the whole thing just with one-handed Link, as I had done most of the rest of game up until this mission that way. But even with an optimal Master Sword according to that data-mine, I still was using up all my elementals by the time Calamity showed up and had only twenty seconds left at that point to not only get over to Calamity but also beat him. So; impossible.
So I was forced, at this point, by the game to really develop some of the other characters, as I hadn't been until this point. I could see using the map that if I had three other characters with optimal weapon-builds I could probably do the mission using the 'order' command to send them to the various corners of the map in order to cut-out the running-about time, and also to give me many-times more health for the mission.
Without spending any more tedious time researching into the data of the game to see who the optimal characters for the mission would be, and also because I like to do things my way, I had a guess at who would be good picks: I'd heard somewhere that Bow of Light Zelda is good, and then of course everyone knows about Impa, and I knew Mipha was good from having enjoyed playing as her for a period during my playthrough; so I chose these three to develop and hoped for the best as I dove into the grinding.
I'd already optimised Link, and that had taken three hours only in Mysterious Arrivals farming for '++' Attack Speed seals; so that was at least one character down. I thought the best thing to do would be to first get a 70 or above base-attack weapon for each of the other three and then max-out the weapon-experience for those weapons. I'd read that Unnatural Disaster was a good place to farm weapons and
... keep reading on reddit ➡In Sienkiewicz's work, he depicted the Siege of Zbarazh as so:
The poles built wooden/earth fortifications outside the walls of Zbarazh to prevent cannons from being brought close enough to attack the walls and protected the fort using WWI-like trenches.
The Khmielinsky met with Jeremy, demanding surrender.
After surrender was refused, the poles celebrated with fireworks and cannonfire during the night and the Cossacks were threatened by their tatar allies for no easy capture.
The next day, the cossacks stormed the trenches outside Zbarazh on foot and horse, and were promptly beat back by the charge of winged hussars and dragoons countering them.
Afterwards, the siege is depicted as both sides shelling each other with artillery for weeks and night-time raids trying to sabotage the other side's artillery and fortifications.
Why did the cossacks try and force an engagement over the trenches?
The poles sallying forth makes sense - they had limited food and needed to break out to clear space for a messenger to request back up, and they needed the trenches to block artillery from threatening the walls proper.
But why did the cossacks engage before the poles sallied out? They were fighting uphill and into artillery fire and cavalry charge when they had the logistical and numbers advantage over a siege.
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Maybe there is something behind the scenes I'm missing with the AI, but I feel like a solution to the issue of artillery on walls and A.I. not being left with a leg to stand on could be solved by just raising the floors up to meet the wall height like in Shogun 2 and other historic total war games.
It could also give more diversity to sieges. They breached one wall? Fall back to the next one.
I don't think C.A. would, or even could change anything about sieges at this point for WH3, but it feels like C.A. is just trying to reinvent the wheel with right angles.
By 1702, the Spanish empire was weak and England and France were rising powers.
The English governor, James Moore, in Charleston was eager to take the capital of Spanish Florida, St Augustine and therefore take all of Florida. He marched over there not only with his men but rounded up some indigenous people from the other areas and armed them with guns.
The governor of Florida was so spooked by this, he told the people to go in the San Marcos fortress where men, women, and children all hid as the English army bombarded the town and demanded them to surrender. But Moore didn't do much damage and appealed to the English colonists in Jamaica to help him out with better weapons
The Spanish governor, Jose de Zuniga, managed to send messengers to Pensacola and Havana begging for relief and assistance.
The English tried to take the town but finally gave up and while they retreated, James told his men to burn the town, which they did.
Later when he went to back to Charleston, people had contempt for him, rioted in the streets, and he got fired.
Jose got a promotion and was promoted to govern Cartagena in Colombia. The people of Saint Augustine had a destroyed town and so they got to work and rebuild it.
It would be a good idea to do so because the English would expand and create the province of Georgia with its capital in Savannah and were becoming more and more eager to take Florida.
