Siege AI: The flag of death

[Torrin]

Hello, I have experienced the following several times:

When I have a siege against the AI, no matter how big the enemy Castle+Army is: I can just take 1-2 units, flank the castle where no enemy is, climb the walls and take the central flag to win the siege and kill every enemy unit. I can win with 500 against 2000 while I as the attacker should habe the disadvantage, this is just stupid. He does not even try to attack my unit's holding the central flag although he controls all the necsessary gates.

Anything to do about this beside not using the flag to win the battle? (And I hate not to play as good as I can and use everything I could to my advantage, because it just feels not authentic.)

[Willhelm]

Yeah I noticed in high lvl castles the AI doesn't seem to be able to respond to where your attacking and defend the flag as well.

I guess they figured players usually auto cat sieges if they have more troops or just siege and wait for the enemies to sally forth since attacking castles is so costly.

Hopefully they will patch it or somebody will fix it with a mod soon!

[bobtheubilder]

I avoid taking these flags unless I've clearly won. It makes no sense from a realism point of view... those flags are meant to prevent human defenders griefing the attacker by running a cavalry unit around the map till time runs out.

[hyzhenhok]

A good way to avoid this problem is to not abuse it.