Broetchenholer
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So, i just had to defend a siege of Uthelaim castle vs 2300 Battanians and as i was not in the position to fight them head on i decided to sneak into the castle, losing 80 people and then fight with the defenders. Obviously, not an easy job, the enemy brought quite the force, but one of the few times that i had to defend in such a situation. And now i understand why i can bully the AI when i siege them so heavily. Archers are insane against archers and when i siege someone, i can sit 200 archers in front of enemy walls any see how they slowly murder anyone. And the reason that works and the reason i lost more archers in the defense of that castle then in any battle before is, that the siege mechanism dpes not allow to just overwhelm the enemy with arrows. With level 1 walls, it does not matter if you have 100, 200 or 300 Archers to defend, the game will only allow ~50 archers to defend the walls. The rest is behind the walls waiting to be called up. And most of these archers are on the walls are just standing there in the open, waiting to get murderized. I get that sieges are gamified and it would be insanely frustrating to attack a castle if the game was trying to be more realistic, but i would prefer to have some risk as a player if i decide to not starve out a castle and do a assault on a not starved out opponent.