Does any one starve the enemy???

[godsakes]

does starving work on enemy generals? i'm curently seiging the last city of a faction and eventhough my army sigificantly outnumbers them the 5 enemy generals (noble calvary) just cut through my cheap casse shortswordsmens

[Alsatia]

Generals don't starve.

I normally charge them next turn unless there is a full stack in there.

[ARCHIPPOS]

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

[ARCHIPPOS]

i think enemy generals DO starve but at a significantly slower pace ... when eveybody else was 30-50% down from losses the enemy general had gone down perhaps 15% or sth... this bastard was hiding rations from the rest of his troops and feeding it to his bodyguard!!!

[Mediteran]

i think enemy generals DO starve but at a significantly slower pace ... when eveybody else was 30-50% down from losses the enemy general had gone down perhaps 15% or sth... this bastard was hiding rations from the rest of his troops and feeding it to his bodyguard!!!

the bastard!

i like to wait sometimes, only to wait for them to sally, i dont break off sieges and then start again

[ARCHIPPOS]

whatever happened to Alexander's "if my men can't get any ,neither will I !!!" attitude???? HUH???

[Mikhail Mengsk]

I starve the enemy every time, i attack only when the city is poorly defended or if i have to conquer that city FAST for some reason. I don't think it's cheating, i don't see any reason to call it so, because sieges are sieges.

Attacking full-defended fortified city was a slaughter, in antiquity. An intelligent general won't risks its veterans in such a risky way, unless there was some GOOD reason. So do I.

[Constantius III]

I try not to storm unless I'm pressed for cash or time. Besides, if I sit around besieging the city for long enough, the enemy will send some stacks to relieve it, and the field battles that ensue can be pretty fun.

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...

Mhm. Whenever I play Baktria I try to RP not attacking India until at the very least after Asoka dies...so I don't usually have your "low-tech" problem (but getting rid of the constantly-attacking-AS-that-ignores-your-alliance-even-if-you-don't-break-it-at-the-very-beginning is pure hell).