Krathen was quiet for a little while after Shizuru finished explaining the situation. She was right of course, they could just push on in and overwhelm Outlook with superior numbers, but as the general had indicated, that would cost them a lot of men. On the other hand, waiting for them to starve could take a very long time, as Outlook had been specifically designed to withstand a siege like this, and probably had emergency food reserves that could last them a week at the least, plenty of time for reinforcements to arrive.<br/><br/>As Krathen was thinking, he took a step outside the tent and looked up at the clouds overhead, at which point a dark smile creeped onto his face. "Orcs can't fly very well, can they?" he said out of the blue, a seemingly random and absurd observation. "And this town was built to hold off the orc raiders. Strong walls and plenty of defenses to repel enemy soldiers, enough room on said walls to station hundreds of archers... but I'm willing to bet not a whole lot of anti-air defenses. After all, most mortals don't have wings, they rarely have to deal with attacks from the air."<br/><br/>"So what I propose is this: the one of us leads a strike force of other winged demons up above the clouds, and when the moment is right, we dive into the city and hit them from within, while the other leads a frontal attack on their walls, using the catapults and other siege weapons to punch a nice whole, while our team inside the city makes their way up to the walls and dispatches the archers and ballista-men in the localized area where the other team is attacking, thus leaving them vulnerable. Once inside the city, we fan out, take control of the walls, and essentially push their forces out of the city, harassing them with winged attackers as they flee. I would wager only a small percentage of them would escape uninjured, and we are left in control of a mostly intact stronghold which we can easily repair and use as a foothold in this area. What do you think?"