700 men station in a castle but only fight 250?

[TreasureDen]

I just notice that if the troops excess the battle size limit, we don't get to fight all of them. For example, I besieged a castle with 700 soldiers inside, but the castle fell after just 250 soldiers dead/wound. Why the game doesn't spawn reinforcement until all 700 are gone?

 

[ashvalanor]

Hmm never noticed that. Actually i just sieged praven and left 400 bodies behind. Battlesize may cause this.

 

[dzorro]

lots of magelord tweaks still works for warband. Maybe try to change the spawning of enemy would solve this for you.

 

[Archie]

I've seen the same thing in original M&B, although not quite on that scale. It happens because each side only gets to use a certain  number of reinforcements per battle. So if you're defending the castle the enemy retreats after they've used their limit, and has to attack again, whereas if you're attacking and the defenders use all their reinforcements, you just don't have to fight them the others. I think when that happens it causes the scene where the remaining defenders retreat to within the castle walls and you follow them, but only have to fight five or so.