assulting a large castle

[mattep74]

When assulting a top of the line castle with arty towers etc why is it that i cant do the following:

first use all siege weapons soly on attacking arty and arrow towers and then stop the battle and have another go at it the next turn. The towers should be gone then wouldnt you say.

I tried that as a almohead against Bysantium. One army consisting almost entirely of siegeweapons attacked, but the next turn they were rebuilt

[Knight of the Order]

I find it a bit annoying as well but each turn is a year and the owner of the castle would make sure repairs were done as soon as possible. I don't think it would take longer than a year to repair towers. It would be totaly different if each turn was a month or season.

[Exile]

well, if you auto calc your assualt you will have less casualties. So much less that it's sort of cheating, but it works.

Sometimes I bring in all my artillery and launch a massive barrage until I'm out of ammo. Then I withdraw the artillery units and bring in reinforcements to storm the castle.

[Stormer]

yeah besige it ur dont lose any men takes a lil longer though http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/rolleyes.gif

[SmokWawelski]

Yes, it is strange, but you cannot do anything about that. Assaulting a kick-a** castle is not a walk in the park. The tip posted by Exile seems to be very good to use.

[Shahed]

Assualting a fortress:

1. Army composition depends on enmy garrison. Normally a good rule of thumb to take mostly heavy assualt trooos.

2. Place army far from enemy towers but make sure your artillery can hit stuff. Naturally take canons if possible.

3. Open fire with 6 (good number to blast open the fortress) in the following sequence:

- Any artillery towers which are in range of your army. Hit them first.

- Cut a primary assualt route thru the walls staright thru to the keep

- Destroy towers covering the primary assualt route

- Open a secondary assualt route

- If you still have ammo, open fire on enemy troops or towers covering the secondary assualt route

4. Try to lure the enemy out with one fast cav unit.

5. Assualt & Capture

Good Luck.


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