Castle Assault Defence Battles

**Maloncanth** · 04-28-2007, 04:42

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?!

**The Unknown Guy** · 04-28-2007, 04:52

Not to my knowledge. Perhaps you should try to simulate it in a custom battle.

Anyway, I´d not use that as castle defense. I´d rather lay as many organ guns as needed for continuous fire. They´ll last longer while besieged, and likely throw back any assault attempts.

**Maloncanth** · 04-28-2007, 05:07

Well sure, but organ guns wouldn't have done any better than anything else in this situation. They were firing arrows through my walls. I'll see if I can make it happen again at some point...

**Martok** · 04-28-2007, 06:07

That does sound pretty odd, Maloncanth. I've seen missile troops (both mine and the AI's) get a few arrows/bolts over the wall, but never right through it. You might want to try Guy's advice and see if you can recreate the phenomenon in a custom battle.

**Vladimir** · 04-28-2007, 20:47

They can't fire thru walls but you might be too close to an opening where one of two can get a shot off at you. Experiment to see what place is better to hide. I've defended against the Mongols a couple of times and know you can hide, but it's tough.

**Garnier** · 04-30-2007, 01:06

They can shoot through an open gate. The best defence for a castle is pole-arm infantry in the gateway, along with swords and spears depending on the enemy army.

**cosminus** · 05-16-2007, 11:58

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.