Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall: Major Siege Defense Guide

To survive a major siege battle in Yes, Your Grace 2: Snowfall, you must extinguish structural fires immediately, target incoming threats with specific unit counters, and hold elite infantry in reserve for wall breaches. Neglecting blazes or misallocating your frontline forces allows enemy siege engines to collapse your fortifications and rout your garrison.

Fortification Preparations Before the Siege

Your battlefield endurance depends on decisions made during earlier council sessions. Without adequate gold and construction materials invested prior to the assault, your defenses will lack the durability and supplies needed to outlast sustained enemy waves.

Prioritize your preparation across four key areas:

Defensive Area	Combat Benefit	Risk of Neglect
Outer Wall Reinforcements	Delays siege ladders and battering rams.	Early structural breaches overwhelm ranged units.
Emergency Water Reserves	Provides supplies to quench spreading blazes.	Uncontrolled fires consume walkways and trap units.
Ammunition Stockpiles	Sustains uninterrupted ranged volleys.	Archers run out of arrows during critical waves.
Reserve Garrison	Plugs sudden wall collapses and gate breaches.	Defensive lines collapse against multi-flank charges.

Countering Enemy Siege Waves

Enemy forces arrive in structured waves that combine infantry, siege machinery, and incendiary attackers. Committing all your forces to a generic frontline brawl leads to heavy casualties. Assign counters based on incoming enemy types:

Torch-Bearers: Direct archers and longbow units to kill these troops before they reach wooden scaffolding or ladders. Stopping fire before it contacts the walls prevents cascading environmental damage.
Ladder Teams: Station standard melee infantry at the crest of the ramparts to shove down ladders and cut down climbers as they emerge.
Battering Rams: Drop boulders or pour boiling cauldrons directly over the gatehouse to break the ram before it shatters the entrance.
Elite Shock Infantry: Deploy your heavily armored reserve guards directly into choke points or breached wall sections to pin hostile elites in place while adjacent towers fire down on them.

Containing Fire Hazards

Fire spreads across wooden ramparts, weapon caches, and scaffolding. If left unattended, active blazes cut off retreat paths, eliminate elevated vantage points, and permanently lower fortification health for the rest of the battle.

Assign auxiliary workers or peasant levies specifically to fire-suppression duty rather than active combat. The moment a blaze breaks out, immediately dispatch these responders to extinguish it. Finishing off a retreating enemy squad is rarely worth losing a battlement to uncontrolled flames.

Deploying Commanders and Post-Battle Recovery

Allied lords and commanders offer high-impact abilities such as defensive barricade deployment, precision strikes, and area-of-effect morale boosts. Because these skills have long cooldowns, save them for climactic waves or sudden defensive emergencies rather than using them against opening skirmishers. Keep commanders stationed near vulnerable choke points, like the main gate, but out of the direct line of sight of hostile siege artillery.

Once the assault ends, transition directly into casualty triage and structural recovery:

Treat Wounded Veterans: Tending to surviving soldiers immediately preserves experienced units and lowers future recruitment costs.
Clear Scorched Battlements: Remove debris and secure burned sections to restore pathing along the walls.
Rebuild Fortifications: Spend surplus wood and gold immediately to repair cracked masonry, as damaged walls leave your kingdom vulnerable to follow-up assaults on subsequent turns.