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Thread: MTW Review Part 1: Castles and Siege Warfare.

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    Coffee farmer extraordinaire Member spmetla's Avatar
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    The seasons is one thing I really miss from STW. The tech goes faster your heirs and Leaders seem to last longer. And you can strategically attack in summer to take all the improvements and income.

    I'll stop now, this deserves a differnt thread.

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    Im going to start a complaint thread. Ok?
    Then the programmers can go to it, and see what it brought up the most, and what needs to be adressed most in the patch.

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    Did medieval armmies really assault castles by using swords and axes to cut their way in through gatehouses? What are they using some kind of energy weapons?
    If I can break in through the gatehouse in a few minutes using ctrl-t, with just minimal losses, why would I waste my time with artillery, aside from the "cool" factor? Battering rams need to be added. Having reinforcement siege men arm artillery pieces and battering rams also needs to be included. Would it really be that difficult to code? Breaking in through the gatehouse should be far more of an ordeal, and very costly in terms of lives, arrows, rocks, boiling oil, murder holes, etc. DOn't you agree?

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    John Geeshu you can't just batter down the gate of an upgraded Keep or a Castle (upgrades or better castles I doubt you would just assault).
    You might win, but expect to lose a lot of men.

    I had in a recent battle 83 men bottled up in a Castle (I think) and the AI tried to assault it, didn't work. I lost 16 men and I killed 90, but in reality the AI bled his army dry on this (castlekills are not counted in the end battle screen), and now I can safely retake the province.
    The ground around the castle was littered with dead Almohads, I have calculated the losses to be around 1000 (remembered the size of the force before the battle and the deducted the force left after the battle).

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