Wow. Syrakousai. Quite a weak army defending it if you considered fighting it in the open right? Well I just assaulted it and took so many casualties I actually quit the battle weird innit?

But it's not just Syrakousai I'm trying to make a point about- has anyone else noticed how assaulting a city always seems incredibly difficult? I mean, fair enough, towers and missile troops picking off some of the men from my units as they advance to the wall is fair enough, but it just seems that once they're actually on the walls it's simply a massacre! Even after sapping the walls the surrounding towers make you wish you'd just invested in a ladder or siege tower instead.

Does anyone else dislike assaulting a city as much as me? I mean, don't get me wrong, they're really tense and epic battles, but it just wrecks the units so much I actually wonder if I should have just waited the set number of turns for them to try and rally out, but then, some might call that an exploit