When defending a castle, is it not possible to deploy?

[Werner]

Right but that was the AI being lucky. Everytime I've had them at my gates with a spy (gates open) they never rush it and 99% of the time will just waste time opening up holes in the walls which just gives me loads of time to organize my troops. What they should be doing is charging the gate before I can get all my troops into position. This is the tactic I normally use when siegeing and its very fail safe, because once you take the walls they can't use their towers to shoot at you and their moral takes a dump.

Can't say I've ever seen the AI use the "gates open, spy" technique with any common sence.

[Zanshin]

It's happened to me twice already.

There are times when I can't deploy in defense by "right click+drag" I can only right click and they are deployed in the initial position.

If you always deploy placing the troops carefully angled instead of just stating where you want them, you should find this "bug".

First time I thought I was misplacing them in the narrow streets. However, yesterday I saw it clearly and spent 15 minutes trying to place the troops correctly. I was forced to place them by default and then angle the troops while the ram approached (I like to place two units of spears in 60º in front of the door, like a "V").

[rc5924]

Yeah even though the gates are open theyll sit out there with their trebuchets or catapults and just knock like every hole they can knock, its retarded, and depressing that I paid $50 to not be challenged.

But anyways, in my first campaign as the HRE i was NEVER allowed to deploy on a siege defense, ever. And I was pretty green to the enemy attacking from 5 fronts when they really shouldnt have, so I had alot of siege battles. At first I thought it was a really stupid aspect of the new game, but then I realized that my campaign was bugged, because the gates wouldnt really be open, but at the beginning of every battle my general would say Some shveinen has opened the gates!! And I could not deploy my forces, which usually you can do.