What happens when you try to starve out the AI?

[homefry]

Let's say you have an army full of cavalry and you siege a settlement. You can't take it because of no siege equipment, but you decide to starve out the enemy. If the enemy can't get an army to help them, will they sally out and attack you or just surrender.

[Laman]

Depends on the size of your army and their army. If the defenders are too weak and the attackers too strong they just surrender, but most often they make a sally attempt that is generally easily crushed.

[imnothere]

cavalry are too expensive for a costly siege. try spears instead - it wont hurt as much when you take casualties.

[Jason X]

well, playing HA heavy factions, you often find yourself waiting for an AI sally. and it doesn't hurt at all as you get to concentrate fire on the poor fools as they come out of the gate.

[TheLastPrivate]

I hate losing all my good men in seige streetfight so I almost ALWAYS wait out seieges. Sometimes I'll siege settlements that I can't occupy due to spatial relationship of borders just to reduce the garrison and harass enemy economy.

[Bob the Insane]

Like everyone else states...

If the AI is stronger then you they will sally straight away.

If they are a little weaker than you they will sally just before time runs out (which never made sense to me as they would have lost troops by then so would have been better off sallying immediately).

If they are a lot weaker than the attackers they simply give up...