How To Capture Almuj

it's been awhile since i'v done one of these so I'ma do another since everybody seemed to like my old ones

Almuj is From a military view one of the hardest to get in to. And here's why

ENTRANCES
there are 2 entrances and to make matters worse Once again getting in via the moutian pass with an army is impossible. Some of you who have read my others might be thinking starve them/deprive them of water like in troms. This is what i thought as well until i remembered drought sands. Alumj does have a water and food problem but they can get their water and food from bugs so this wouldn't work. (Yuck) And for people thinking send an assassin in to kill the king... The're is no king in alumj so that won't work either.

FRONT GATE And only gate
Unlike the vast majority of cities in wynn This place has one (obvious) entrance. TROMS the titan in defense is outplayed on entrances. And to kick you in a the face again the front gate... is a gate with a pretty sturdy wall. So if they can see your army coming they can quickly shut the gate and hold you for quite some time before you manage to break down the door. But like in other cities the way the have entrances is their weakness

THE KEY
every city in wynn has a way you can easily destroy them or ruin them. Almuj is a pretty big one though. And it all comes down to a single quest. In the quest A Meaningful holiday you enter a cave that can quickly get you in and out of alumj. From what i can tell as well alumj is not aware that the cave is there. So here's how you do it

Excution
Send a decoy army to the front gate and have them attack it for awhile, and send the REST of your army in through the cave. While the soliders try to hold you from the front you can ambush them from behind and just like that almuj is your

 

Cool.
One question though - cant they just walk in from the sides? There are no walls or landforms stopping an army from walking in here:
http://prntscr.com/gzz9fv
or here
http://prntscr.com/gzz9n3

I can see the mountain passes on the sides hard to get through, as it is a small area and easy to do collateral damage to, which would easily wipe out incoming forces. However, I think it would be much harder to stop somebody from entering the city here ^^^^

Although the cave seems like a better plan, I thought I would get your opinion of this.

 

You do more of these? Because if you do, please link me them. This is just beautiful.

 

You seem to be assuming we're attacking from the West, which is where most of the rest of Wynn is, but it is the best fortified part, with a wall stretching quite far to both sides. There are several ways around this you may not have considered.
1) Assemble the army in the Mesa. Rymek could raise an army, or you could possibly send soldiers in through the Abandoned Mines. After this you could march quite easily from the top of the canyon to the city, and they'd be very hard to see from the city until they reached the desert, going in from the South.
2)Go over at Ternaves. At the end of the wall there's a fairly steep hill that the soldiers could climb, much wider and easier than the cave. From here, you can split your forces - some can engage the defenders on the wall and take it, while the rest charge for the slums. With the advantage of support from the wall, they should be able to eliminate any remaining resistance.
3) Through Dern. I can't elaborate due to the lack of information, but it may well be possible.

The front gate might also be better than you think - it's wide, the area on both sides is flat and and there's no gatehouse or even door. It's a good point of entry, and once you've gone through the outskirts and the market are easy to reach. After taking the market, you have access to most of the city's supplies.

By the way, might I request Cinfras next? It will be interesting to see how you tackle such a large city, and with the airships (could carry supplies) and Guild Hall. Rodoroc and Ahmsord would also be interesting.

 

Okay, lets see how many zombies it would take to destroy Almuj using this strategy! :)
So to begin there will be two zombie forces, one moving in from Turnaves to the secret tunnel, and the other attacking full on from across the mesa.
To begin we need to know how long it will take for the zombies to move into Almuj from Turnaves. From the town to the camp is a journey of about 200m, which would take about 100s to move across.
This means that the distraction force must survive for 100s. The mesa is very flat, so the zombies can be shot and seen from 200m away, there are about 35 soldiers that live Almuj, and there would be about ten visiting soldiers there, so 45 defenders. At the sight of the approaching horde they would all run up aboard the wall and begin to fire down at them. They would kill about 2 zombies a second, so over the 100s march, 200 zombies will be killed, and that will be all that is needed for the distraction.

In this time the second force will have rushed into the slum, and purged the civilians, and within 10s they would be at the bridge. The soldiers hearing the screams after destroying the approaching horde, would rush over to the river and it will take them about 20s, in that time the zombies would have already crossed, seeing the threat, the soldiers would retreat to the bank, firing as the ran. 60m of retreat would take 15s, and would cause the death of 30 zombies.

Once they reach the bank they would destroy the stairs, which would bring 200 zombies down with them. At this point the bank is isolated, and the zombies would be forced to swim and climb up to it. It would take them about 20s to clear bother 10m stretches of water, and the 30m stretch of land would take 15s to clear. Climbing the first stretch of land would take 10s, and climbing up to the bank would take 50s. This would take the zombies 90s to reach the bank. In this time 180 zombies will be shot down. Once they reach the bank, there fill be a fight between the soldiers and zombies, the soldiers being 10x stronger will result in 300 zombies dying to 30 soldiers.

The remaining 15 would retreat realising they can't win, down to the vault. The zombies will follow them into the maze. The zombies will fight the 6(?) golems defending the vault, which are at least 100x stronger than the zombies -judging by the quest, they frikin one shot you- meaning 600 zombies would be killed. After this the zombies will find the last 15 soldiers and the final fight will result in 150 zombies perishing. Finally a further 20 zombies will be needed to capture the rest of the city.

To conclude it would take a force of 1480 zombies to destroy Almuj's defences, which is even more than it would take to destroy Troms!
Basically those golems are frikin OP, and without them Almuj would only take a force of 880 zombies, but that is still similar to the amount it would take to siege Troms. So tbh Almuj is underrated and shouldn't be underestimated.

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The first screenshot is accessible by the secret tunnel, rather than going around via Rymek.

And also don't you need to go via Almuj to get to Rymek?

 

@TheCDGamer you would be able to get a few soldiers around the wall unnoticed and into the sides. You can get around the wall pretty easily up the hill, or yes you could come from rymek

 

You're forgetting the emerald labyrinth guard golems, those guys are savage

 

Sure i'll do cinfras..
I'v never been there so i have no idea the layout i'll google some images

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I was doing the attack from the west
Though the secret tunnel does put you up in the first?(area with tents)
The second one is wide open but filled with bugs
But thanks for pointing those out. I wouldn't have noticed the second ine otherwise