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.