Crude Siege Tower

DESCRIPTION

A crude siege tower is typically constructed from lumber cut in the forest closest to its target, and is hastily built using unskilled or barely skilled labor. As such, there are a large number of holes and slits between the wooden planks, granting improved cover to all creatures inside the tower, but not total cover as a properly-built siege tower would. This siege tower has a maximum speed of 40 feet and an acceleration of 10 feet, despite being pushed by creatures that can travel faster than that. Moving it at a faster speed or higher acceleration means the driver must make a DC 25 drive check to keep the wheels of the siege tower from breaking and the tower falling over to its left or right side (randomly determined), requiring the tower and all the creatures inside to sustain 8d6 points of damage. This damage is a mix of falling damage, creatures falling upon creatures and environmental damage from pieces of the tower breaking apart and creatures being injured by those broken pieces. While there is room inside the tower for around 250 Medium-sized troops to squeeze in the vehicle, most crude siege towers will collapse if more than 120 troops are within the tower at any time. The crude construction, sheer size and mass of the siege tower reduce its expected speed of a vehicle pushed by Medium creatures, keeping it below that of a typical siege tower.