Medieval 2 total war siege defence

[Exstasy]

So how come when I defend my castle or anything. The enemies don't come and just stand there. Which means that I have to get out of my city and go after them on the fields. Please help me this is fustrating

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Because the AI is a mess.

You're defending your castle, yes? They attacked you?
They should usually send some siege weaponry to do something... usually rather stupid.

If you sally - that is, if on the campaign map you actually ATTACK the sieging army then the AI switches to "Defensive." The Defensive AI is famous for a) sitting and waiting for you to come back and b) claiming insanely high hills, forcing you to exit.

Try enabling the time limit, 6x speed, and a tea break. I think that'll make you win if you're defending if you leave it long enough.

[Exstasy]

THANK YOU VERY MUCH

[CHE]

Originally posted by ThatBoyFresh23:

So how come when I defend my castle or anything. The enemies don't come and just stand there. Which means that I have to get out of my city and go after them on the fields. Please help me this is fustrating

If they do that, aside from the issue of whether they are doing a siege assault, or you are sallying forth, there is also the issue of whether they calculate that they have a stronger or weaker army than yours. If they calculate that their army is significantly weaker than yours, then they might besiege you, but act defensively rather than aggressively during any siege battles, so they don't lose soldiers in assaulting your walls - assaulting walls generally favours the defender in terms of casualties. I bet it's because you are sallying forth.

[Hat8]

Originally posted by ThatBoyFresh23:

So how come when I defend my castle or anything. The enemies don't come and just stand there. Which means that I have to get out of my city and go after them on the fields. Please help me this is fustrating

The games AI can be dumb at times so be sure to set a time limit.

Also, make sure you're not attacking them. You're the one attacking if you click the attack button. Doesn't matter if they're waiting outside your walls or not.

[Inardesco]

Basically, if they're the one initiating the battle and they don't move forward. Enjoy a break, read a book. If you're in a castle with multiple walls, just keep a few troops near the gate to activate the archer/ballista/cannon towers and just x6. I always play with 60 minute timer because of things like this.

Especially with the Mongols/Timurids. The Timurids usually send their elephants forward to the gate ( why I don't know ) so they become easy targets for your cities/castles defences allowing you to kill a ton of elephants. This usually happens when they have siege equipment which is subsequently destroyed on the approach or have siege weaponry that isn't firing.