Anyone else hate assaulting a city?

**satalexton** · 08-17-2008, 19:59

=/ i think it does, u may have a draw on the battle, but it also meant their sally was a failure...last it happened to me i basically took the settlement after a 45 minute wait ( i played tetris while waiting)...

...and yes i prefer fighting them in an open battle, where i can cut the lot of them down as they rout. Sometimes u even simply win cuz the whole lot of them are routing back to the square.

**LorDBulA** · 08-17-2008, 21:01

Sieges are not to difficult they are way to easy. Unfortunately there is no way to make them as difficult as they where in reality.

**Che Roriniho** · 08-17-2008, 21:07

Exactly, LorDBulA, It's just they shouldn't be hard because of crappy AI. If you don't have phalanxes or anything that needs to charge or skirmish, you're fine though.

**Karo** · 08-17-2008, 21:31

I really hate assulting so I wait till the enemy sally's out or tell they give me the city. THe only time I attack is when there is 1 unit in the city.

**Martelus Flavius** · 08-17-2008, 23:06

Personally I'm not really fond of city assault. I like movement and therefore space!!! And by the way I'm really bad at maneuvring in small streets (which are still probably bigger than they really were.)

Regards

Martel

**Bellum** · 08-17-2008, 23:33

I could have sworn I made a post about being better at stone wall assaults than palisade assaults. :/

Anyway, I prefer to starve the city and force a sally. At least on EB. In vanilla, the pace is much faster and you want to take the city ASAP.

**Rodrico Stak** · 08-17-2008, 23:42

I usually assault, if not on the 2nd turn of the siege then almost certainly later. The reason being that for most cities the general leading the siege will acquire the "starving" trait giving -3 morale before the enemy sallies. I don't think it would matter so much, but the AI doesn't seem to get any supply traits, and I don't want them to have so much more morale than me.