I am in total agreement with most of the ppl on this thread in that i had apowerful army (with young faction heir) attack the Numidians last fort/settlement. Now i had heard that elephants could attack forts with wooden walls...no such luck!! It just wouldnt work (was i missing something?).

For that reason it made sense to beat a tactical withdrawal in order to build some seige machinery. What happened when i did that? The whole army and the faction heir lost!!! Now that is plain silly (and highly unrealistic). Surely you should be able to build seige machinery in the field (i.e. on the battle map) and why would my army be defeated in circumstances like this

CA an explanation would be nice..........