I've noticed a lot of postings from people who find the seige battles too frustrating to play. I guess its a matter of taste but to me it is the very frutrations of seige warfare that makes it so memorable. Its like trying to manage chaos which is what I imagine a seige would probably be like anyway.

One of my most memorable moments was in one of the first seiges I had against a stone walled town.

Up until then I had been buying two battering rams (one to use and a spare) and battering in the gate before rushing the hapless defenders. But this tactic went serious wrong when I encountered my first walled town.

My battering ram never even made it to the gate being left in a blazing heap halfway there and my second one quickly went the same way.

All I had left was one cohort carrying ladders which I had constructed really just to see what they looked like never really intending to use them.

With nothing to lose I sent them in against the wall near the gate. Losses were awful as the archers on the walls rained arrows onto them but they bravely raised their ladders and began climbing, shields over their heads. love it!

The first legionnaires clambered over the wall and began pushing the archers over the edge. Just loved watching those hapless Greeks falling to their doom after all the trouble they had caused.

Having cleared the wall my herioc unit then marched along it taking the gatehouse and pushing another bunch of archers to their doom before grabbing their bows and starting to fire on the greek units below them from the gate towers.

Then charging out of the gatehouse they drove off the Greeks defending the gate and opened it to let the rest of my army in. Yey! who needs a Trojan Horse.

Only 23 survived but they saved the day. If only we could award medals to our men.

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