Lord Fluffy
03-12-2007, 19:27
I'm currently playing a campaign as the Seleucids, no battle time limit. Currently at war with the Romans. I took Carthage, and seeing a Scipii army land on the beach just south of the city I took an army out and confront them. Little did I know another army had landed to the west of the city just inside the fow.
The city is now defended only by 3 militia hoplites and one mercenary hoplite. Here's the first odd thing, the army from the west marched to my walls and within the same turn attacked me. They had 3 balistas and to my surprise they also had a ram and a siege tower. I didn't know you can build those in the same turn that the siege started.
So I had this full stack of leg cohorts along with several aux and archers sitting outside the gate. I had move my hoplites to the gate hoping to kill off as many of those romans as possible. But they just sat there, their balistas knocked out a couple of my towers but then they stopped. I sped up the game and watched TV a bit, 20 minutes later nothing happened. I exit the game, and I got a clear defeat. Shouldn't that be a draw if an army just want to sit outside the wall?
The city is now defended only by 3 militia hoplites and one mercenary hoplite. Here's the first odd thing, the army from the west marched to my walls and within the same turn attacked me. They had 3 balistas and to my surprise they also had a ram and a siege tower. I didn't know you can build those in the same turn that the siege started.
So I had this full stack of leg cohorts along with several aux and archers sitting outside the gate. I had move my hoplites to the gate hoping to kill off as many of those romans as possible. But they just sat there, their balistas knocked out a couple of my towers but then they stopped. I sped up the game and watched TV a bit, 20 minutes later nothing happened. I exit the game, and I got a clear defeat. Shouldn't that be a draw if an army just want to sit outside the wall?