All the conditions of a siege favoured the construction and patient usage of siege engines. Manoeuvres mattered far more than having a few powerful engines to lob several stones in one hour. Formations of men can quite easily avoid the general line of fire just by moving around. Artillery never had aiming mechanisms for indirect fire it was all just blind luck that hurling that stone or arrow projectile in that general direction will land on those big walls. Trainable units therefore is a no-go for this. The problem is that, if you want historical accuracy, you really can't have field artillery in anything before the age of muskets. That's like four distinct missile infantry units right there. If you divide this to infantry, however, you have to consider training lots of average bowmen, a smaller unit of crossbows that shoot farther, or a crossbow unit that shoots faster but poorer range, and a unit that inflicts increased damage but lacks either range or firing rate. You couldn't really do this in previous games because at some point you go "why train light infantry when you can just train cannons? They are the logical conclusion of superior damage and range". Battles in Shogun2- where artillery weapons were VERY limited in use and appearance- worked fine, though they have the benefit of musket infantry. This actually helps unit diversity, because now the role of artillery- that of extra range and/or extra damage- can be put onto infantry units. In other words, realism dicates that artillery at this point in Chinese history was not used in the field, and thus cannot recruit a unit of ballistas to rain bolts on an enemy army. For Three Kingdoms you can just have a third tab called artillery and for the attackers, they are your regular siege engines for defenders, it's for the ballistas mounted on wall turrets. In Rome2, you could organize tabs between army and navy. If you want realism, then artillery units can only be built as siege engines when attacking settlements. Steone projecting weapons like catapults were designed to smash walls, not mass of troops that were likely to be stationary or even large enough to get a reliable chance of hitting from far away even large stone walls can be missed.
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The reason why there are siege engines used by armies in Total War against other armies was simply because of the rule of cool, and the movie Gladiator.
Technically field artillery didn't exist until the times of Napoleon. 2K A Total War Saga: Thrones of Britannia.846 A Total War Saga: Fall of the Samurai.
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