The first level of stone wall is the best, it has all the benifits of a stone wall without the evil seige towers you get with the larger walls.
Quote Originally Posted by Urg View Post
Thinking again about my initial post, Frontline is probably right. Generally speaking, if I have a significant sized garrison I sally against the besieging army. The only time I would actually battle to defend a city against a siege is where I have a relatively small garrison. This is when stone walls cause me a problem, because I do not have enough troops to defend the walls and the gates at the same time, and my troops end up getting fired on my the walls once they are captured. The problem doesn't arise with wooden walls. Maybe this is not a problem at all? I'm not sure.
. Don't trying to guard the gates 9 times out of 10 the ram gets set on fire, once you realise this defending stone walls is easy, I've held off of armies of thousands with 6 units in the past.


On the other hand, The problem with attacking walls is a much more serious one because its far easier to capture an AI city with stone walls than one with wooden walls.
Really? I've always found taking stone walled cities is far more costly as you have to fight the enemy on the walls which always results in more deaths. With wooden walls its essentially a normal straightforward fight, just knock a few holes in it and use missle troops to drive the defenders away from the breaches.