"Charging in isn't going to work"  Astra mused, pacing back and forth as her own forces rallied up.  "And our tunnels aren't ready or prepared either...  Okay, here's the plan"<br/><br/>Attrition was one thing, expending all of the enemy's ammunition against the masses of zealots in a force in a single, all powerful rush?  It was chancy, but doable, but assumed the other side hadn't prepared extensively...  But when you got right down to it, this city was a fortress, it was incredibly unlikely the walls would be in good repair, while the soldiers inside were poorly stocked.<br/><br/>So, there was one other option.<br/><br/>"Sight your targets"  She said, her own cadre of marksmen lining up, with a group of larger troops with enormous wooden shields--more of a sheet of boards lashed together then anything more formal, but for this, they didn't need to be super accurate.<br/><br/>"Prioritize their shooters and rock throwers"<br/><br/>The other side could afford to spend ammunition, but their attention was fully on the barely armed zealots rushing them down, they didn't dare pay attention to anything else, or the tide would swarm them over anyway.<br/><br/>So they wouldn't be shooting back, giving her group a chance to pick off the wall's defenders with relatively little attention paid to them, and the tower-shield wall in front should be enough to keep any attacks they can spare from doing any real damage.<br/><br/>Make do with minimal materials, but it was the best she could could come up with on short notice.