Native Americans and Artillery

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It does seem like overkill.

I wonder if the attack could be given piercing damage to skewer some infantry. The arrows would be coming in at a pretty high angle so that might look strange.

@SirBarnzy1

Various Spanish (normally Priests) sources let us know that Aztecs scaled walls with ladders, undermined with digging sticks and used incendary arrows/darts or heated sling stones to siege, however I can hardly find anything regarding Incan siege.
I remember reading an instance of a siege tower-like structure (possibly from an old Spanish illustration), however aside from scaling laders and flaming missles (like the Aztecs), it’s reallllllly hard to find!

It’s been mentioned a few times in some AoE4 discussions.

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History of the Inca Realm by Mariah Rostworowski. (for info about smoke usage in warfare). The Invention of Conquest (Six) - War, Spectacle, and Politics in the Ancient Andes (cambridge.org) (for the smoke, boulders, and diverting water canals strats. Also mentions that the inca empire is the only civilization of the New World that had real military doctrine and logistics). The Rise of the Inca: From Rags to Riches (wondriumdaily.com) (mentions chimor water supplies were under inca control du…

The siege towers are Maya. They also had cool stuff like hornet grenades.

[Poll] Should AoE4 get Native Americans?

Aztecs apparently had ways of defeating walls. They used soldiers to essentially disassemble walls before them. So more damage to walls may be accurate? Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1coe7f/siege_warfare_in_precolombus_americas_how/ The Mayans apparently may have had siege towers, but the only source is a mural at Chichen Itza: (https://www.reddit.com/r/mesoamerica/comments/85a3nv/color_photograph_of_the_siege_tower_mural_at/) (Also sorry for using reddit so much.)