MrMundy said:Count Delinard said:MrMundy said:Its pointless in mount and blade none the less. Once you got the walls you have essentially won. We havnt seen anything suggesting the contrary.
While I agree on your doubt as to why would you need a ram if you can simply open the gates from inside once you take them, capturing the walls does not necessarily mean you've "essentially won".. I've had many lost sieges where I had taken the walls but the sheer number of defender reinforcements pushed me back from the courtyard to the walls and ultimately outisde of the castle
Also, I remember some sieges where archers in the courtyard would take 50+ of my men while we trying to make it from the top of the captured walls to the courtyard since the inner side of the aformentioned walls had no merlons for protection
The 10 guys that are left after you slaughtered everyone on the walls will only be a problem if you got too few men. Using a ram will just cost you ~6 more men with whom you could clean up the rest of the keep.
Not to mention that to actually lower the drawbridge you would need to be, atleast mainly, in control of the walls anyways, so being pushed back is no concern here.
How about the rest of the men the enemy chooses to leave in the courtyard (it could be more than 50, or whatever the AI chooses to leave by the main gates) or who spawn as reinforcements and then rush the walls to meet you on the staircases?