"You must know, then, that there are two methods of fight, the one by law, the other by force: the first method is that of men, the second of beasts; but as the first method is often insufficient, one must have recourse to the second. It is therefore necessary for a prince to know well how to use both the beast and the man.
-Niccolo Machiavelli
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Genghis Khan spent years of his life waiting in seige around enemy towns. Admittidly they did develop some decent catapaults but many of those could be outranged and destroyed before they could take down the larger walls. It was his method of seige that made things go much faster.
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Macedonia EB 0.81 / Saby'n EB 1.1
Qart'Hadarst EB 1.2 / Hai EB 1.2
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Getai/Sauromatae/Baktria
donated by Brennus for attention to detail.
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History is written by the victor." Winston Churchill
herm the 1st siege batle that genghis khans fought in china he ended up loosing half of his forçes according to the sources and thats because he had some engineers and a mercenary army provided by the chinese when they tryed to stop him from going around the great wall(i guess the chinese never had heard of the epirot troubles with the keltoi mercenaries or they wouldn´t have recruited an entire mercenary army) or else he probably would have lost due to impatiente (in the end the city surrendered after having eaten all the dogs animals and many sources claim their own dead where eaten)
I don't think siegeing gives you hesitant attacker. I siege to end every single city on the map; very few (if any) of my generals get hesitant attacker. I remember in vanilla you could get negative command stars for siegeing if you had no siege equipment, so just build lots of ladders then drop them when the sally starts to avoid those traits...dunno if it carried over to EB but its become habit now.
I think hesitant attacker only comes when you choose to attack (looking at the enemy troops in perfect detail) then pull back and continue the siege. Same as any field battle where you initiate an attack and then pull back. To avoid that.....just don't do it, wait the siege out normally.
Completed Campaigns:
Macedonia EB 0.81 / Saby'n EB 1.1
Qart'Hadarst EB 1.2 / Hai EB 1.2
Current Campiagns:
Getai/Sauromatae/Baktria
donated by Brennus for attention to detail.
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