While I usually play on vh/vh, I'm a bit of a novice in seiges. I tend tactically to be prepared for seiges, and so rarely let the enemy assault the walls. I either counter-attack or sally.

Perhaps you guys can therefore help - I noticed several mentions of buckets and V's around the gates, which I remember from MTW1, and Rome.

However, my one experience of a seige in MTW2, I got caught with my pants down, so to speak, and ended up fighting with around 10 spanish Militia-spear units against a mixed stack of French.

They blew down 4 sections of wall, the gates, and most of the towers.

I took a gamble, and instead of trying to form "v"s at each of the breaches, I double-stacked the spears. I literally deployed them on-top of each other, facing into the breach. This seemed ridiculously succesful.

The enemy weren't able to get the usual levels of penetration which I've seen against a single holding unit, and being spears, they stoically stood there giving it some. The general then sallied out the main gates, and charged the enemy in the back, which caused no end of panic.

As I remember, the French were a general arms stack, including spears, foot knights, archers and calvalry.

Anyone else ever tried this?