Quote Originally Posted by Ars Moriendi
Siege warfare has changed for the better in many ways - the OP's "problem" is one of them (more realistic simulation of defender tower crews).

The most obvious sign of improvement for me is the wider variety of methods I employ to take cities. In RTW it was siege towers 1-turn assault every time. I almost never used artillery or saps as it was better to take the walls and use the tower firepower + archers on the walls to shoot the clueless defenders inside. In M2TW, I'm using all the available methods, as each has its advantages : artillery, starvation, autocalc, towers/ladders, bribe.
I never thought about the differance in how I approach a seige battle from RTW and M2TW untill I read the quoted post. But it is true!!! I actually enjoy seige battles, and have done things before to avoid them or to facilitate them because they are more difficult now!