Siege leader bonus

[The Guru]

Hi there

just a couple of questions about Siege modifiers:


Does the leader have to be in the centre to use his siege leader bonus? what about the +20% of the Architect trait?
are they cumulative if held by different leaders

btw, what about "organizer"? can it be on a flank and still benefit the army? can it be a sub-unit leader?

 

[Nuklearius]

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[Korashy]

Better use him as the only general to be sure. What matters is who is leading the siege. BTW, you can exploit siege-leader-bonus by assigning the leader to every siegestack in the beginning. For some reason siege-leaders don't actually have to be present all the time, so you can have on guy leading 8+ sieges (you have to reassign him after every finished siege though).

Kind of makes sense, he goes there tells them how to setup the siege camp, and stuff and then rides on to the next one.

 

[Dahoota]

Both traits only give the modifier if the leader is in the centre flank, showing up as the leader in the siege screen. I'm pretty certain this means they don't stack.

I think the leader gets the pursuit bonus regardless of which flank they are leading.

I wish there were more ways to get the siege leader trait, it's so useful. Especially in the early game when money can be tight and again in the late game when sieges can take sooooooo long.

 

[Slaists]

Apologies for necro posting, but I could not find a clear answer to this anywhere. I did some experimenting and it seems, what is suggested here is (at least) no longer valid. The siege leader bonus applies regardless of whether the siege leader is commanding a flank or the center (you can see the bonus when hovering over the siege progress bar). So, you can have your strongest general in the center and a siege expert commanding a flank. The bonus still applies.

 

[Castimirr]

I had an architect with Way of the Leopard and a decent martial score as a commander recently. That was amazing. Holdings just melted.

 

[Serenity84]

This was changed with 2.8. Same with movement bonuses:

"Armies now use whichever flank leader has the best siege modifier for determining the leader bonus to sieges, and the best movement speed flank leader for determining movement speed"