Hello everyone, my name is Sir Losealot and I'm a siegeaphobic. I bravely run outnumbered into open field battles and dazzle the opponent with my tactical genious. Then I come to the fortress gates and tremble... It's time for the slaughter to begin.

Sure, I'll usually win, but it's gonna be a slugfest battle of attrition if he's got anything inside those walls. I'll end up with a good portion of my once great army dead on the city streets.

I do my best to try to surround pockets of the enemy. I use catapults to open multiple holes in the wall. But, alas it usually ends with another big battle in the city square against units that will not rout.

Short summary of my last siege: My army of Turkish Saracen spears, Ottoman infantry, mounted and dismounted Sapahi, and catapults takes on about 15 units of Hungarian crossbowmen, spearmen, light inf, and a few cav. After making a couple of holes in the wall, I quickly move in and take out a number of crossbowmen. I move up the main street and another parrallel street and surround more units. So far so good. Now I enter the edge of the square. I want to form a good line of spearmen and decimate them with Ottoman arrows and catapults but they don't let that happen. Hungarians attack on the edge of the square and things degenerate into a bloody mess. My catapults hit my own troops due to close quarters with the enemy. Hungarian king charges and routs some of my units. In the end I win with little better than a 1 to 1 loss ratio.

The saddest part of this story is that I'm much better at sieges now than I used to be. Feel free to heap scorn upon me.