Honestly if you have ever tried a siege in warband and completed itvwith a lot of units while attacking without falling off you are some god
What you do in Warband is have a majority archer army and you unleash an arrow storm at the defenders then when you, your companions and all your archers run out of arrows (you can use this time where you wait for your men to run out of arrows to go make a coffee, or alt tab out and put whatever youtube video you have playing in the background on the forefront) you either retreat the battle and return with full quivers to kill off the defenders again and rinse and repeat. or after the initial bombardment of arrows you charge in. Attacking in warband was a lot safer than defending and you could take on castles with garrisons 5 times your party size if you had enough ranged and patience. I just yesterday realized I can also do this as Khuzaits in bannerlord. and it's a lot of fun allthough I have a feeling it's taking a lot longer than in warband
You're a more patient man than me, sieges in medieval 2 make me want to kill myself.
Really? Oh no, they are the one thing where everything is neat and orderly and predictable and where I can use the same set up I usually use with mild variations every time. And actually have the time to zoom in to take in the carnage as my pikemen go poke poke poke and the crossbows go yeet yeet yeet and the guns go blang blang blang and the enemy dies in droves or flees and rally's and flees, especially the last rally group is my favorite because whilst they fled I kind of reorganized and as they rally and slowly march to the gate I follow them with the camera to have their perspective and can imagine their horror as they see a bunch of pikes pointing at them in pikewall with handgunners and later arquebusiers in between and suddenly the thunder and small clouds appear in the distance in front followed by bullets arriving and the sounds of pain and horror erupting around me. I can enjoy this all day and sometimes even dream about it. Thee is nothing more satisfying than watching a whole blob of horses and infantry being held in place by pikes when suddenly a hail of bolts flies in to them from the walls, and in fort defense situations a hail of bullets from their flank.
Another favourite thing to do is to take Caernarvon as the HRE when it still rebel, place a fort at a choke point and repel endless English attacks in the fort with a core of Militia pikemen and gwent raiders and welsh longbow mercenaries...
I love it so much that all my armies I build, are built to be city siege defenders, and I will rebuild all castles into cities, and starve out enemy cities and castles instead of charging since my army is well equiped to defend against a sally or even better a relief force. Obviously I have to rely on corner camping though to simulate the wonderful safety of walls.
After years of playing serious and fair I now modded my favourite faction (The HRE) in stainless steel to have the handgunners, pike militia and halberd militia and forlorn hope as soon as the late medieval period kicks in and the building is built instead of having to wait until the game is nearly over and an event triggers that allows those. (Of course the other factions still have to wait, and to just make it fun and "cinematic" I also reduced the AI's likelihood to recruit any form of artillery to almost inconceivable. The HRE also have the easiest to defend forts and I also build armies with fort defense and use in mind, just so I will have a lot of the battles I actually enjoy because there's no annoying outflanking.
I also gave the handgunners the raise spikes ability at one point but that was a bit too crazy especially in siege defense and it rendered my precious pikemen obsolete. So I removed that again to have an excuse to recruit those.
Anyway sorry for the small off topic