Playing as pontus the other day my assaulting army was destroyed and yet i had the poor general left, sense he was sutch a bad one whit losy traits i though wy not, he will pay for his failure. Rusht him in trough the gates that he captured and moved to the city square to find it abandon and the timer start counting down.

It was fun to see the AI army of about 1000 strong run around the city walls and not able to get in and kill the lonely general. So i won and the city was mine, (for one turn) the general got his punishment when the city rebeld.

So enough of the story, about the timer. Is there any way to disable it? Like you got to destroy or rout the enemy army to capture the city.