I captured a castle so they say...

[Ritter Dummbatz]

Like said in the topic description that's what they say. But I didn't or did I? I just followed the marshal who was besieging that castle into battle.
What's the criteria of the game to make me the conqueror?

 

[Daedelus_McGee]

You need to go to the keep and be the first to besiege it.  If others are following you or nearby when the siege starts and join the siege in time to prepare for prepare their troops for the assault, then you are the one who captured this.  If you just joined into a siege in progress, you will get the relationship bonus for attacking alongside, but not credit for leading the siege. 

 

[Ritter Dummbatz]

You need to go to the keep and be the first to besiege it. 

Yeah, that's the way it usually is. But in this case the fight was already going on. I actually waited until after midnight to have some of the troops trained before I joined.
But still, they said it was me who captured it.

Not too bad though. 

This happened in another game as well and again today. I wondered if there is a reason why. May be something like there is a chance for you to be the conqueror if you have the most top tier troops of all parties or the highest tactic skill or may be both. I had the better guys that's for sure and in the end, if this is not a bug, is the only reason I can think of. But may be there are guys who know exactly how this can happen.

 

[elutheral]

This has never happened to me before and, I've been through many seiges. I'm also sure i had the top tier troops myself seeing as my budget was 18k...  maybe a bug?

 

[colchis]

by them saying that you conquered the castle do you mean the dialog comes up about you asking to keep it or do you mean actually receiving the feif?
sorry if its a stupid question but i've just finished writing a paper and my heads fried

 

[Ritter Dummbatz]

No, no question if I wanna keep it or if I ask no reward. I just had access to the garrison which has been filled up with troops from the other guy who probably actually captured it. When I talked to them to raise my relation they told me "I support you the one who captured it".

To be able to manage the garrison whether or not you captured the castle I think would be a very cool idea...well this is off topic but whenever this happened to me I thought "yay, they made it finally possible!" so I just have to mention it.