Quote Originally Posted by Heidrek
It often seems that even if I defend the province sucessfully, the number of years I have to siege them goes up most of the time?
It's recalculated with the new garnision size and the remaining food.

Quote Originally Posted by Heidrek
I'm attacking a province that contains the enemy king. If I win and trap him in the castle, and a relief force arrives to break the siege but fails, can he join those troops that escape to another province or will he be bottled back up in the Castle again?
He should be bottled up, but as macsen says, thje comp does some odd moves sometimes. The sally got the option to retreat from the province though, but only pre-battle.