Quote Originally Posted by Dead Guy
Just shoot out the gate house if you really have to go through the gate. The 30% losses 8% damage on the ram sounds a bit unbelievable to me, I lost 2 rams on the very first puring of oil in a siege battle and haven't ever assaulted a city with stone walls since, without cannons.
Also, ballista towers are just silly. 3 siege towers destroyed before they got off the line they were standing on when the battle started basically. I'm never assaulting without cannons, ever.
I play on Normal against the AI (Turks) and they didn't block the gate at all with troops from the other side, once it was down, I was in to victory. I suppose the Normal setting contributes.