Permanent Stone Forts question

[The General]

If you think like that just imagine me how I will conquer cities with horse archers under pahlava.
Even I wrote a guide on it after years of playing with nomad factions.

It's pretty easy to conquer towns/cities with wooden walls with HAs if you've got something mêlèe-capable units to deal with the final phase/engaging the general(s) (I'm playing currently as Baktria and the majority of my forces is made up of Shivatir-i Pahlavanig, Dahae Baexdzhyntae, Thanvare Payahdag, Nizagan-i Eranshahr and Thanvare Parsig units...).

However, castles/cities/forts are a little different in M2:TW...

My point was in general against sieges, I've just never liked them particularly. (Actually archer/HA-heavy armies can make some of them quite fun, it's always rewarding to see Pantodapoi/Pantodapoi Phalangitai/Gund-i Palta/Shuban-i Fradakhshana units melt under hails of hundreds or thousands of arrows)