Odd battle

Noob question here. So I was laying siege to Angers. The English is in the citadel, I'm Spain. They had a whole stack of DEKs and swrodsman in there. My troop has mostly cav. So I figure wait them out and let them try to break the siege, I'll kill them in the field.

Along came a single unit of billmen from Caen. Approached me and attacked my stack. Went into battle and I got the single unit of billmen and a reinforcement delayed message. Sooo, the billmen got massacred. Rather funny that they actually went ahead and charged my line. Kinda look like that scene from Kingdom of Heaven.

The English lost the battle and the citadel, now I'm thinking...shouldn't the full stack from the citadel just went right back in there? Perhaps try to sally out the next turn or so?

:wall:

That really shouldn't be happening............

Sounds Bugish?

If a relief army attacks causing the garrison to sally and the battle is lost then the city is yours. In this case it seems that rules have defied logic and the system does not allow for this circumstance. I would report it so it can be changed in some future patch.

Did it say reinforcements delayed due to your specs not being enough?

No, I've seen that message before. This is different, just the regular reinforcement delayed message. I got the spec not enough message when I had 2 full stacks on my side against 3 stacks on theirs.

Maybe they got lost in the woods or fell into the river.
But really, the garrison shouldn't just die if they never took part in the battle.

I've had the same sort of scenario happen, except the castle guards didn't just disappear -- as you'd expect they stayed in the castle.

:shrug: No idea, that is an odd one.

Don't really know if they just died. All I saw was I occupied the citadel and the enemy stack was nowhere in sight. Perhaps they ran off somewhere? I did see a stack that looks similar to it up near Antwerp a couple of turns later.