Quote Originally Posted by BerkeleyBoi
i am playing as hayasdan by the way. the units i use to assault the walls are usually medium armenian infantry and persian hoplites. they get slaughtered by seleucid or ptolemaioi native or medium phalanxes on the walls.
Others have covered the general case; I'll simply add that I don't think Srakir Martikner are quite tough enough to take a contested wall - they're basically Hastati, after all. Pantodapoi Phalangitai are amazingly good defending walls - that AP axe they carry is nasty! You can get them yourself (Regional MIC-3, I think), so it's worth experimenting to see if they work well as assault troops (assuming the game lets you send a phalanx unit up a tower, that is) too. I don't recommend fighting on walls for Hayasdan, though. If all the garrison has is Pantodapoi, skirmishers, Nizag Gund, etc., fine, but AS (and the Ptolemies, too) has so very many ways to produce infantry you just can't match. Beat 'em in the open field, then starve 'em to death.