I had my first siege battle that was worth playing today. For some reason a sudden slave rebellion in Sardinia (on Sardinia?) spawned a stack of pretty elite Carthagenian troops but whatever. I was just happy to see the siege in effect for the first time. The AI managed to make it to my walls, this time with all 4 ladders and not using torches to burn down the gates, which was interesting.

They also managed to put pike infantry in pike formation on a ladder, which killed 2 Hastati before I managed to dogpile enough things on them for them to die:



Once my defenders had killed all melee infantry, the rest of their army didn't dismount and start using torches... instead they did what ones army does automatically in TW games of old. It automatically retreats

So yeah, this was a positive experience :D (Game is vanilla, all mods are visual)