The 5 year siege

[Red Harvest]

If you take over the gates, what's the point of bashing them up? Just let you troops in through the open doors.

Boiling oil, and men on the gate can do you a whole lotta hurt. I use sappers whenever possible (no boiling oil), and the AI will fight hard at the points of entry allowing me to smash them at ground level. Plus I use lots of cav, so give me a big opening on each side of the gate and I will go tearing in and kill anything I can, forcing the surviving enemy to retreat to the plaza.

[GFX707]

If you take the gatehouse, there is no boiling oil!

I always just send some troops onto the walls to take the gatehouse (or maybe sneak some round the side to take an undefended gate) and then I can just walk the rest of my army in with no consequences....I also get a unit of velites or something and run them around the perimeter taking all the towers on my route to the square....

you are right though, 20 minutes is NOWHERE near enough for a city assault.

[Colovion]

When I was in my first campaign as Julii I couldn't afford to lose many guys during a seige. I really needed to take the assault slow and kill most of their guys with any kind of missiles I could before engaging in hand to hand.

Slow. Methodical.


Isn't that what City/Castle seiges ARE?

or that's how you win assaulting one - start trying to just go all out and you lose way more men

[Oleander Ardens]

Words of Wisdom Colovion

Right now playing a hard/hard campaign as Gauls and I'm rushing like mad and I'm defending as mad as those Spanish and British traitors are attacking me..

Took in three years four regions, Arretium, Segestes and Lug. and Massilia and defended Alesia and Numantia. All enemy armys were very soundly beaten and I have great generals on all three fronts..

I was able to reduce my casualities in sieges greatly by simply making as much as three holes before storming. This way you can flank the enemy who is concentrating on one/two holes...

Pacience is key

OA