Quote Originally Posted by Macilrille View Post
Well... the hardships of siegers probably depends on faction, the civilised factions will probably have little problems. think of Numantia.

In fact the siege of Numantia provides a fine historical example/answer for your question.
OTOH, the Romans had to do a *lot* of groundwork to pull that off - and IIRC got several armies mauled trying to even *reach* the place to begin with...

AFAIK a major reason everyone back then was usually willing to try storming fortresses (if they had the mad siegecraft skizzles to credibly try it, that is) was the expected casualties being much preferable to sitting on your ass in a siege camp starving and diseased for the better part of a year.