Quote Originally Posted by Gaiseric

Anyone have some advice on how to defend a Polish, Russian, or Hungarian, city. Its hard because their milita can't do schiltrom.
Use your factions strengths to your advantage in defense/offense. For those above it would be cav soo instead of having mainly INF to defend..mix some cav in as well, use them to attack and stop the rams or destroy artillery pieces..then run whats left of em back inside your city, keep em there until the attacker moves another ram/ladder/tower then sally them forth to defeat the heathens again.

Or... do as the above states but use missle cav instead... the attacker gets soo spread out your towers are doing pretty much max dmg cuz of the time/energy the attacker is losing chasing your missle cav about..which is also firing at them, once out of arrows use the cav aspect of the unit.

Once again tho... if you have the ability to hold your walls it is far better than a street or city center except in the most adverse conditions. A street and city center have no tower support,whats more if you are forced into that scenario it implies that you do not have sufficient forces in that city to begin with since you have left your strongest point for a weaker one AND you are retreating in the process.(Timurids excluded or mass cannons from neone)

As for getting the AI to engage your strong point IE a castle or the like, it helps to underman the garrison a lil bit. Excluding the cost of it, the AI will not usually match stack vs stack unless its castle vs city units (DFK vs town militia for example) or a crusade. Also I find that if you have a super general with your force they will not usually attack if you have a large force as well. Instead of putting a full 20 units into the city or castle be more selective of unit type (dosent seem to matter what type or exp they have for the AI to engage) and leave out 2-4. If its a citadel or fort dont garrison a officer in it at all since you dont need him there to win.

City defense - Spearmen/Archers
Castle Defense - Archers/Spearmen