Can someone explain sieging?

[Lighthope]

Okay, stupid question.

I lay seige to a castle. The town's food drops.

Why should I bother waiting? What prevents me from just clicking on the attack button straight-away?

Is there any benefit to just waiting until the town's food runs out?

Lighthope

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[Damn Dirty Ape]

i usually just add some siege stuff to the marshal and assault,nog siege, when they break true the wall its a walk in the park.. to go sieging.i dont know

[Angryminer]

If doors had any sense (swords versus town-doors?) sieging would be sensefull because you wouldn't be able to break into the town without loosing half your army at the doors.

Angryminer

[dearmad]

Yup, because assualts are SOOOOOOOOOOO easy sieging makes no sense, even without siege equipment!

[Lighthope]

So, that's another fix for the patch. Need to be able to:

1) Starve a city into surrendering. (Low probablity of success, but should be able to happen)

2) Lose far more people if seige without seige equipment, proportionally speaking. The better equipment, the less you will lose on the initial assault.

Lighthope

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[craZcelt]

Is there any benefit to just waiting until the town's food runs out?

Actually I believe it said somewhere in the game that starving a town causes the enemy's morale to drop, severely affecting their performance in battle... (can't remember if it specified whether or not the morale change begins only after the food bar is empty or if it's proportional to it's depletion... probably the first one) ... which I guess would be cool if the garrison was larger or of more sophisticated/dangerous troop types compared with your army... but maybe the attrition suffered in the time it takes to completely starve a medium/heavily fortified town isn't worth the morale advantage?

craZcelt

[Arcador]

We shall see, they say 10 times more tougher doors...maybe it will make siege machinery more usefull.