Enemy spy opened gate...but storm the wall?
As Hungary, my Budapest stone walled city was attacked by HRE full army.
To my surprise, HRE spy was here and he opened the gate, which means HRE army do not need to storm the wall with tower/ladder.
But AI decided to attack the wall instead of just walking through gate!
I had 5 spears/2 archers/1 general while HRE had full stack of better troops.
1 tower attacked left wall, 1 ladder attacked rigt wall, where each or Hungary spear defended, while remaining 3 spears stationed around gate.
However, battles one the wall losing badly, I had to move all spears from gate to wall, making gate undefended (it's already opened by spy anyway.)
But still AI do not attack through gate!
AI's 3 trong cavalries didn't move, while archers(!) joined tower, where losed badly. After I succeeded repeling on the wall, AI just sit in front of gate and d noting. What a silly! :furious3:
Re: Enemy spy opened gate...but storm the wall?
Has anyone had an issue with trying to sally? I was besieged by the Hungarians (Smolensk, as the Russians) and tried to send out my kazak horse archers to pelt thier slow infantry. One unit made it out, and the other two just ran back and forth for the whole battle. They were not engaged, they were not on fire at will or skirmish, but they simply ran back and forth through the gates, ignoring my commands and in general being...infuriating. The enemy troops even ran through the gates once, and they did nothing. Kept running about in thier silly, head-bobbing manner. I had to charge with my general to rout the intruders. I ended up winning, but by a much closer margin than the battle had any right to be. Fraggglefarfnerthgrr...
Re: Enemy spy opened gate...but storm the wall?
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Originally Posted by kaasbris
To my surprise, HRE spy was here and he opened the gate, which means HRE army do not need to storm the wall with tower/ladder.
But AI decided to attack the wall instead of just walking through gate!
Yeah I've had this happen many times too, whats the point of their spy if they don't take advantage of the gates being opened. Something the next patch is sure to fix.