defending

[Cultist]

how do you defend a city against a siege?
what troops do you need?
i tried to lit a siege tower with 4 peasant archers and didnt do any damage to it.
please offer me some advices
Cultist

[LlamaD]

stakes&spears&pikes vs cav
archers at walls that are not attacked with ladder/siegetower
spearmen and better def. inf. at walls that are attacked with ladder/siegetower
help-defense =moving cav units next to city before the opponent attacks so that they are available in battle
using bottlenecks to your advantage
try to present overwhelming numbers and angles so that the enemy routs faster.
fight at townsquare if troops are low-tier units


Ps:
when cpu comes with catapults & trebuchets: adjust

[Creslin]

I always put archers on the ground bellow the walls and have them fire up at any units that climb the walls on a tower or ladder, even with a crappy unit like town militia in guard mode holding the wall you can stop much stronger units from taking the walls doing that with archers.

At the gates i like to make a square of pikemen on 3 sides, without pikes i usually do the same thing except with spearmen.. if you have pikes its basically impossible for break that formation and take the gate, if you only have spearmen then its harder and more likely they will win especially if they have lots of heavy cavalry.

Fighting at the town square is very viable but I find that you take much heavier losses if the enemy has lots of missile units than you would have taken if you had fought those same missile units at the walls instead... against a non missile using army the town center can be really good though since you can get a mass rout of all enemy units more easily than when they are all spread out on ladders and different parts of the wall.

[Cultist]

/me bows
thank you for your advice my friends

[mikeon]

I've found that if I let them ram my gates, they abandon their troops trying to take the walls and the ones on teh walls retreat so that they can go through the gates. At places where siege towers and ladders hit, I have my spearmen there. If I have room, I make it so that one side of the tower/ladder has spears and the otherside has swordsmen.

At the gate I position any spear troops on the right flank and in center to take the brunt of the attack. To my left flank a bit away will be heavy infantry that I will use to charge into the enemy's right flank. Retreat them when they begin to get tire and have my second line of heavies rush in while my first line forms up again and rests.

If I have a general, I usually have him in behind the spearmen to catch anyone coming through.

Also, once the enemy leaves the walls, I have my archers on the walls turn on fire arrows and aim at the pocket of death below them.