Quote Originally posted by cuendillar:
1.) Castles/Fortresses- other than prolonging a take over for a particular county, or allowing for building upgrades, what do these things do? Is there a way to fight from them? As I understand it, basically their purpose is to keep a county under the castles oweners' control a few more turns to allow him to accrue the income and prevent his enemy from gaining it. Seems like there should be more to them, but I can't find it.
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You can attack the castles if you like. If you're besieging a castle, you can drag and drop your army onto the castle (on the stratetic map). This will prompt a battle for the castle with the defenders inside the castle and your troops fighting their way through the gate. It ususally makes much more sense to starve them to death, but attacking the castles can be great fun.

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