I used to look down on starving your opponent until very recently when reaching Taksashilla in my Baktrian campaign ... stone walls , elephants,taxillan agema, indian longbowmen and guild infantry (have you seen those guys in wall action???) against my low-tech half stack of an army of pantodapoi Phallangites,archer-spearmen, archers, slingers and eastern skirmishers... so after reading this thread i said why not starve them out??? fast forward 8 (!!! ) rounds later with all their units reduced to 1/2-1/3 of their original strength they sallied forth... by then my FM's had acquired -3 morale , hesitant attacker and starving traits... so they sally... only they don't come out!!!theu just sit on their city walls and wait...playing my battles with no battle limit i decided to attack myself... sent my archer spearmen on the walls with my towers followed by skirmishers, archers and slingers... i routed his taxilan agema two units of his elephants which fled the city in frenzy, and wiped out one unit of his guild infantry then i had to clean the walls from enemies, ... so then i had the choice of moving my phallanxes and skirmishers towards the city centre and engage the remaining FM elephants OR clean the walls of the remaining enemy infantry first ,then move in...i go for the second option... BIG MISTAKE!!! the enemy gave me one hell of a fight with his remaining spearmen and 1Xguildslayers and longbowmen(which took out their machettes)and started slaughtering my poor light troops in wall melee... in the end my units prevailed but at a terrible cost ... reduced to 20-50% of their original strength... so frankly i didn't feel like cheating... even at such terrible loses from starvation those Indians gave me hell