Sieging
Does anybody have a good tactics for seiging a castle without losing many forces. And i dont mean by laying seige, I mean by actually going in and killing the garrison inside it. Everytime I seige, i end up losing at least 200 men, even if most of them are usually just low teach units i'm getting rid of. And maybe some arbalesters (pavise if i have them) to kill the general.
When I attack, say a castle, ive never attacked a fortress, I usually bring 15 seige engines. Sometimes I have 10 seige engines and 5 pavise to distract the people in the towers. I destroy as many walls and arrow towers as I can, then I withdraw these units, bring in reinforcements and finish the job. This is where i lose the most units. Eventually I win, but with horrendous losses.
My last seige, I only laid siege, because the castle held, the Golden horde king and 54 of his men, he had no heirs. I wanted to eliminate the horde now, so i attacked it, since it said it would take 6 years to fall. The hungarians were preparing to attack so i didnt have time to wait 6 years. I attacked the castle. Well i lost 236 people( mostly seige people), which i dont really mind since im about to get cannons. Almost the next age. I was just wondering if anybody had some brilliant tactics for attacking castles.
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