defending castle

[stryda]

can someone tell me how can i defend myself from castle? i mean when enemy attacks my land and i retreat to castle then usually passes few seasons of siege which is calculated automatically and then i lose... how can i fight a battle to see and command my troops from my own castle?

i also added few units in crusader unit file(i have VI installed but i play early age) and it works fine except one thing... only the corpses of new units dissapear but i have added them in deadpagecords, when i did same in viking_units and added them in deadpage it worked... where's the catch?

thanx!

[Cruelsader]

In the campaign, you cannot initiate a castle battle as a defender. A castle battle happens only when the besieging army decides to storm the castle (instead of starving the defender into subimssion). However, you can set up custom castle battle and play as defender.

As regards your other question then, unfortunately, I do not know the answer.

[ichi]

can someone tell me how can i defend myself from castle? i mean when enemy attacks my land and i retreat to castle then usually passes few seasons of siege which is calculated automatically and then i lose... how can i fight a battle to see and command my troops from my own castle?

To sally out from a castle:

Simply select the units inside the castle by clicking on the castle, then selecting the unit icons in the tray center bottom.

Drag the selected units out of the castle and set the stack anywhere in the province. After you click end turn they will fight any enemy units in the province. You will be the attacker in the battle, but it will not be a castle map that you fight on.

ichi

[English assassin]

and the same thing happens if you move another army into the province from outside. In that case your troops in the castle sally automatically, but once again you play as the attacker and its not a castle map.

IIRC there are mods which make the AI more likely to assault a castle but I am afraid I don't know which, perhaps someone can tell us?

[Procrustes]

Someone here recently said that they believe the AI is more likely to assault your castle if you play on "expert", but AFAIK there is no documentation to support that - it was more of a hunch.

[Sir Price]

Beeing almost at the end of my first expert campaign, I'm inclined to agree about the AI assaulting castles more often. I believe it was voigtkampf that mentioned it, in a thread were I asked about the effects of expert setting.

[bretwalda]

A castle defense related question, I would appreciate if someone could answer :

Your castle is besieged. You bring troops from outside the province to help the sally forth effort. You happen to lose. In that case do your troops retreat to the castle (thus if more troops are there shortening the siege time since there are more troops eating the reserves) or is your province and castle lost?

Also if the enemy siegeing your castle and you beat 'em back on the siege field I presume the siege goes on (minus the dead soldiers on both sides...?)