That castle is *MINE*

[F50]

When I was preparing ladders to attack the castle, a swadian lord comes up from behind me and starts sieging the castle. When I stop building ladders out of shock, I go to the castle again and join teh siege, which results in the kingdom of Swadia taking the castle. It should have been MINE!

Besieging a castle is very buggy at the moment, the AI can leave a siege for a day before it stops being sieged, but if I even so much as try to upgrade my troops I have to start over again.

 

[Lokai]

Well its not a bug or anything. The only *bug* is that when AI leaves a castle it waits a while to tell you the siege has ended, but if they ever leave it technically has ended. Even if they have chased someone away.. I don't like not being able to leave or do anything while sieging other than building siege equipment but its im happy with it because its realistic. I doubt you could run off in the middle of a siege chase a army away and the come back and your siege equipment is still being built. Also you could not do the same with training troops. So I understand the reasoning behind not being able to do anything but build your siege equipment.

 

[F50]

The main bug is that the AI bypassed my siege to take the castle.


And no, the siege has not technically ended when the AI leaves, you can't re-siege until a day or so afterwards, like the PC could in .903.


If you are not *at* a castle, you shouldn't be able to build siege equipment, but it shouldn't be taken down until the castle defenders decide to risk meeting me on the open field. That should take a day, as historic castle sieges have tried to fake the defender into coming out by pretending to leave.