I tried to assault a huge city tonight. It had ballista towers, which I had sabotaged to 100% damage, but that doesn't stop them from working in the battle (What?). So, I brought along a trebuchet and a bombard. I set both up out of range of the towers, intending to destroy the gate towers first, then the next two towers along the walls, then the two beyond that. Once the two towers nearest the gate were down, I was going to dispatch siege towers to those wall sections, as experience has shown me that I lose FAR more men to the fire from the towers than I normally do to enemy troops. It took more than half the ammo supply just to destroy one tower! I didn't even GET to the next one, I ran out of ammo before it went down! Those huge walls are TOUGH!
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