So I got tired of losing soldiers to costly charges and I also got tired of losing troops to artillery shootouts even with the whole pause put artillery in reserve, put artillery in other slot unpause wait for the shots, rinse and repeat. Spent 30 minutes yesterday carefully taking out a castles artillery only to be distracted when my wife in real life said something to me and forgetting to move the artillery and having one of my soldiers die when the castles artillery got a hit in, and abandoning the campaign in frustration. (I almost raged at her since it wasn't even important just some stupid **** she saw on facebook. But I managed to stay quiet, smile and only rage on the inside and reply: wow, some people... I have no idea what she actually said but if your spouse starts about some facebook thing you can't go wrong with answering: wow, some people...)
Anyway in my new campaign where my army is specifically designed to not lose any of the troops I don't want to lose.With my Vlandian sharpshooters being the infantry slot and being set up in a single line to fire as if it was 18th century musket warfare, and forest bandits and captured and recruited Fians in the archer role behind them on whatever elevated terrain I can find, and my sacrificial cavalry ready to be sent out and make the enemy soldiers turn their backs to our volleys. I realized that I'm eventually going to have to start besieging castles and towns and I decided to go for the non lethal options: starve them out.
Now I have been laying siege to Sargoth and it's food supplies have been 0 for a few days now but the garrison is not losing soldiers. In the mean time I'm constantly attacked (it's not much of a problem because of the way my army is structured and the terrain tends to be useful.) So now my question is: Will that garrison start losing troops or not? Or is my only option left to enable the cheats so I can resolve sieges the ctrl alt f4 way? Because I don't want to spend hours doing the artillery snipe game with constantly moving my artillery piece (allthough it could help level engineer I guess) and having to save regularly so I can reload whenever a soldier dies when I'm distracted by something. And I am most certainly not charging my troops in. Charging is only an option when I play an archer character and I keep all my troops safely back whilst I snipe the defenders until I run out of arrows, retreat and attack again with 2 new full quivers
Anyway in my new campaign where my army is specifically designed to not lose any of the troops I don't want to lose.With my Vlandian sharpshooters being the infantry slot and being set up in a single line to fire as if it was 18th century musket warfare, and forest bandits and captured and recruited Fians in the archer role behind them on whatever elevated terrain I can find, and my sacrificial cavalry ready to be sent out and make the enemy soldiers turn their backs to our volleys. I realized that I'm eventually going to have to start besieging castles and towns and I decided to go for the non lethal options: starve them out.
Now I have been laying siege to Sargoth and it's food supplies have been 0 for a few days now but the garrison is not losing soldiers. In the mean time I'm constantly attacked (it's not much of a problem because of the way my army is structured and the terrain tends to be useful.) So now my question is: Will that garrison start losing troops or not? Or is my only option left to enable the cheats so I can resolve sieges the ctrl alt f4 way? Because I don't want to spend hours doing the artillery snipe game with constantly moving my artillery piece (allthough it could help level engineer I guess) and having to save regularly so I can reload whenever a soldier dies when I'm distracted by something. And I am most certainly not charging my troops in. Charging is only an option when I play an archer character and I keep all my troops safely back whilst I snipe the defenders until I run out of arrows, retreat and attack again with 2 new full quivers