Close Victory

[Gil-Gandel]

As a long-campaign win nears for my Scots, the Venetians suddenly rat on me for no reason and turn up outside Vienna with a large army and some artillery. I hastily put together a relief column, but it's two turns away, and before it can arrive, the besiegers assault. We man the walls, but without much hope, although as the enemy bombards and trebuchet are doing their part, we at least hide behind the invulnerable parts so the artillery can't touch us.

That part works out at least, though about half my defenders are pike militia and I'm not expecting great things of them in hand to hand. Soon the walls have four or five big holes in them - at least that will simplify things for the relief column - and we sit tight and wait...

And wait...

And wait.........

And the AI completely forgets to send the foot troops in, and we sure as hell aren't going to disturb its equilibrium. The commander mutters "Don't even fart, lads... or if you must, make sure you spread your arsecheeks first."

Time runs out (another reason for not having infinite time in sieges) and up pops the message "Close Victory". We lost one man (unfortunately clipped by a bombard round as he was climbing down from the gatehouse), the enemy none, and the siege was broken. At which point the relieved defenders cheer as the relief column charges by in pursuit of the indecisive Venetians.

[complete noob:(]

Sadly this happens all the time. I find this happens less often with certain mods, you should try a couple.

One time I won with 5 units of town militia (peace-keeping force) and the English ATTACK with some trebuchets and a bunch of longbows and dismounted feudal knights. They completely demolished my walls, and just sat outside the city. I won a heroic victory, with 0 losses and they had 100+ losses because of my towers

[Leaf-Fan-Forever]

Fortunately for me, I have never experienced this, but with AI's track record it does not surprise me.

[Silent Assassin]

That is why I play mods. Stainless Steel or Third age TW are great mods.

[SturmChurro]

The commander mutters "Don't even fart, lads... or if you must, make sure you spread your arsecheeks first."

That's odd all I manage to hear is "Reform you spineless women".

[Mhaedros]

That's odd all I manage to hear is "Reform you spineless women".

I hear 'Reform you spider's women'

[The_King]

I this has happened to me once on SS (stainless steel) I only had 4 javelins and a unit of cav becasue i had infinite time I decided to charge my cav and retreat, after lots of fighting I finnaly won