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Quote[/b] (Sociopsychoactive @ July 17 2004,07:32)]I'm amazed that people usually autocalc sieges, they are alot better fought, espcially when it's a pitifull garrison, you have many, or even only a few more troops and no siege. ith autocalc you lose loads more, with manualy fighting you can send a single, already partial squad to bash down the gates and get cooked in oil, without minding, meaning you lose around 30-50 men, and kill the garrison easily when your cav or whatever charge in to back up your weary, cooked and disheatened gate bashers.

I alsways fight sieges, with or withou siege and have found it to be some of the best battles in the game when facing large, reasonable similar armies on both sides. Do you all defend assualts? I always do, and more times than I can remember have won with around 60 men, often lowly UM, against 200 spears and an archer unit by running out the gate and smashing into the back of the enemy before the walls fall, routing them then dashing back inside.
The irritating thing about autocalcing sieges is that you loose too many of your good troops.

A siege only takes two minutes to fight by hand: Place your artillery, aim, Ctrl-t, charge garrison...

No sweat, and no 50 fine men dying or whatever other nasty thing the autocalc-AI will come up with.