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"Well I can maybe get the tools and guns for you, as for the worker and money. I know no workers and I can't spare that much money right now."

"5 may be somewhat difficult for me, the groups I know consist of far more then just 5 people but I suppose I could create the cell out of just the group leaders, the rest of the groups don't need to know anything they'll do as me or the leaders tell them."

We're new here, that's going to make us look scared, weak or both and we haven't even tried anything yet. Maybe we should actually see if we can do the job before we start asking for help?
Our unit has any of 100 different options if the terrain or layout or enemy behavior is right.
There's no need to make ourselves look scared before we even begin.

For instance, hilly terrain thats covered in trees makes approaching without being seen easy especially for our kind of troops, it makes observation simple and if the terrain is correct would allow us to snipe sentries on the walls by sending men up into trees that are close enough in the dark to fire at dawn. Preferably the easy side so the sentries are blinded by the first light of the day while our men can see perfectly.
Remove sentries on one side of the wall and we can climb it on ladders made of wood which we have plenty of, once on the wall if the sentries die silently our enemy will still be looking for attacks from outside and most of his men will be asleep allowing us to kill off other wall guards and if it works, open a gate from inside. While thats going on our men who are good at stealth, ambushes and long range combat drop as many sentries as they can in silence.

With the gate open our boss has no option but to attack if he wants to keep his mens respect and if he doesn't? Our biggest weakness is in attacking, we hold the wall giving us the high ground and forcing the enemy to send his men into bottlenecks if they want to reach us, our men have weapons designed to go through armor and most of the defenders men are militia. We'll cause mass casualties on an enemy disorganized and half asleep likely causing the militia who generally have weak morale to surrender. Target his professional men officers first when they show up to remove his best units. Worst case scenario? We run out the open gate or climb down the ladders again and have caused our enemy serious losses, badly damaged morale, forced him to double or triple is sentries at night exhausting a limited number of men and it costs us a few crossbow bolts.

(( That depends, let's try to gather some intel first. If we find a place to observe over the castle walls we can launch 1-2 feints. We lose nobody but they have to react assuming it's an attack.

Maybe we'll find a weakness we can exploit. ))

Cool, can we improve our skills as we go?

(( The wells are inside, you can't poison them without finding a way in first. The only way to poison the wells is to poison them directly.. Luring them out is good but how? They're under siege they know your numbers are superior. They're unlikely to come out until they have no choice. ))

Check out the hill tops looking for any with trees tall enough that when climbed would allow you to see inside the enemy castle and are within crossbow range.

"Well if you have nothing to keep you here then your welcome to come with me and my friends, we're gonna be travelling around. Maybe getting away from here will make you feel better and I could use some female company, I'm the only girl in the group.

I can teach you how to protect yourself as well and make you one of these handy ball bulsters." (( I'm pattenting this name, the slinger is now officially called the Ball Buster. ))