Quote Originally Posted by Maloncanth
Recently, I was defending against the Pope in Tuscany as he assaulted my castle. I was backed up into my keep but all he had left were pavise troops so I was pretty sure I was okay. Then they fire a massive wave of arrows and they phase directly through my inner walls and start slaughtering all my guys inside! My walls were NO defense at all against arrows. Is this normal?!
When as Italians I was assaulting a keep (wooden walls, no mottle,etc) my mounted crossbowmens were able to shot at enemy king inside the walls (The Danes King in Denmark). Also his archers were shooting at my assaulting troops. I has observed that Danes King has pulled back to the center fort after my MC starts firing.
Because the King was only as 2 mens and because he died from assaulting troops that breached the walls I can't say for sure how efficient were MC shooting at royal bodyguards. But because RK unit start pulling to the center before walls were breached I think that they were sniped by bolts.
No assault arty used on that siege.