Don't bother trying to starve the city. It will take forever, and even when you get them down to starving, nothing happens! Yep, they apparently can go without food indefinitely with no ill effects. This is very disappointing, hopefully something that will be fixed next version. Otherwise it is pretty much impossible to take a city without using ctrl-F4, since they always have a massive numbers advantage and you spawn righ outside the walls, you don't have a chance to pick off defenders slowly like you do with castles. Well, that's not true, you can pick them off slowly, but when they ''ve 250-300 defenders, and each time if your good you might get 10 of them, it would take a ridiculous number of attempts. After each failed attempt or retreat you lose a hefty amount of morale, so you men will probably desert before you get anywhere.