siege battles

[mav3434]

Somewhere in the manual I believe it says that, during a castle siege battle, the castle ramparts and arrow towers, etc. will continue firing at you until 'control' that part of the castle. How do I do this, do I have to just get a bunch of guys around it or what? I do pretty good at the smashing walls part but then my guys get inside and just stand around and get shot before they can get past the last gate or get to the last enemy man.

[Naagi]

Well what it means is the outer wall stops firing at you till you breach the inner wall. Then the inner wall stops till you defeat the enemy, the keep will continue to fire the whole time I believe. Never took siege engines on my castle attacks, so not sure if you can knock the keep out or not.

Naagi http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/joker.gif

[mav3434]

Yeah, you can demolish the keep.

The reason why I was askin was that I was playing a custom battle of Turks v. Byzantines on late in one of the big, well developed castle maps with 3 sets of walls and gun towers, etc., but no matter how much I wrecked them, and I did wreck them, I was using 2 siege cannons and a serpentine gun and a mortar, and obliterated one side of walls and the center of the keep, a hail of arrows kept chasing my guys around and cutting them down.

[Cardinal]

Well, look on the bright side http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/tongue.gif . At least the cannons were not firing, so you must have acheived something with your siege guns. I guess they were firing from the walls/Towers that were not rubble yet.