best way to take a city

[Egasus]

What is th best way to take a city???????/

[TheUnknownGeneral]

A lot of infantry and archers, having another lord help is always welcomed as well.

[Allmoz]

1. Siege city.
2. Kill garrison.
3. Claim city.

I've yet to find a more efficient way.

[Egasus]

Allmoz, you are a genious!

[Bald]

cheat. the most effective way is through cheats.

[T R A I T O R]

Rhodoks and Nords are the masters of siege warfare. Use them

[Hartraft]

A handy tip is to hold your men back put your archers in a line with infantry just in fro and let your arrows take out a chunk of the men before attacking. You can also retreat after your archers are out of arrows and repeat. Effective.

[Meadows]

they say cheat.. or strategy.. Well.. you could go.. CHEAP. ever took a city with 30 men? Right before you assult the walls. Lower the battle size to 30. and you can easily take out everyone. If its a 1000 man garrison. Fear not! 30 is strong! after killing about 100, you win the walls, they retreat to the city where you have to fight a mid battle in the city with only a couple of enemys. Again they retreat til you're in the lords hall. here you face 4 or 5 more guys. Win, and the castle is yours. Ignoring the fact there were 800 other guys that you never fought.They simply.. dissapear. But be sure to switch back your battlesize back. It's much harder to defend a castle with a smaller force. BE warned.. this makes seiges VERY easy. and can possibly ruin the game for you.

[Boolerrr]

starve them then attack

[rhetoricmonkey]

Use lots of knights or buy some food and starve them out.

[Allmoz]

Can you actually starve them? The times I tried I've ran out of food faster than them. Not to mention it is a terrible waste of time and leaves you exposed to retaliation from everywere since you can't move.

[Hartraft]

Originally posted by Allmoz:

Can you actually starve them? The times I tried I've ran out of food faster than them. Not to mention it is a terrible waste of time and leaves you exposed to retaliation from everywere since you can't move.

I have heard that you can starve them. it just takes a lot of time like you said, and you need to be well prepared.
Actually considering this I wonder if you can sneak into the town before you wait them out and buy all their available food. Would that reduce the amount of time?

[Allmoz]

I don't think it works that way since castles have no merchants that sell food, so their food supply shouldn't be linked to their merchants inventory.

Also, starving them doesn't actually make them surrender inmediatly, it just makes them lose morale and increases the chances of them surrendering when asked. Still, in order to convince them to surrender your army must have a numeric advantage, so you might as well just attack them instead of standing like a moron outside their walls for months.

[SupaFunkyFresh]

Get lots of Nord Huscarls

[Doctor Bowtie]

I alwase waight for a huge party to capture one of my factions castles and right when the army leaves the castle shuld have like 30 recruts making it an esey seige

[Saint Scylla]

Your best role during the first battle of a difficult siege is to shoot down the most dangerous foes, the elite archers who can kill dozens of your troops, while staying alive and scavenging ammos from the fallen.
Before the siege, make sure to place your best melee units at the top of your units list in order to have them with you during the 2nd and 3rd phases of the siege. The throne room storming can be pretty tough.

Regarding starvation: one of my vassals has actually sieged a Vaegir castle for weeks till they starved out and surrendered. I've set up a fest for the brave!