For a change, I'm at home today so will look at this battle now.

Starving vs Assault - I'm usually ok with assault but I always allow myself a 2:1 advantage normally (i.e. in Rome). I've not had that benefit with Medieval 2 so far and havent now.

I've tried speading deployment but the AI has just reposted his defenses to compensate.

Lets have a look at this save then huh?

(BTW - still hoping we haven't modded this from version 1.1 as nothing appeared to be set in stone about add-ons etc)