Quote Originally Posted by rockoutloud1213
I understand the premise is that it is harder to take a well-defended fortress than to defeat an army in a field somewhere, but 1 man killing 475? That's not plausible, regardless of fortress.
I recently took on a citadel with 8 defenders, played it out in full and got horrendous casualties. Getting past all those walls and towers ain't pleasant.

Auto-calc will often give you worse casualties than playing out the attack. I once had a bridge battle where I had about 400 men and the AI had 2. Not to waste time I auto-calced - 250 casualties and I lost the battle! I went back and played it out - it turned out the bridge defenders were two "Jedi" Royal Knights. I hit them with two units of jinettes - lost two men in the melee and one to friendly fire, both knights went down with javelins through them. It's the biggest difference I have ever seen between auto-calc and a full battle.