Siege question

[chris33]

I'm on my phone at work so will make this post short as its a pain to type where I am. Great new vids, love the early glimpse of the barbs. One question though on the sieges jack said they wanted less sieges but the ones you have to be more epic which I'm sure most will love as they got boring once you knew how to win them.

On rome 1 just stay in the town centre, block the routes and the ai will lose a ton of men before its even got to you, many times they then break on impact and you can unleash your cav to complete an easy win, I rarely held the walls. Shogun 2's sieges were much better due to multiple directions of attack and better AI from the enemy IMO

So if there's to be less sieges the question I'm asking, is he also mentioned each province in the game will be broken down to smaller areas, how do you think this could play out ?, maybe you need to control the other area in each province first before laying siege to the main city in it, this Computer AI will fight land battles before retreating to its city to hold out.......how this could work is still obviously unclear, that or I'm way off, what do you all think ??

[Rijul.J.Ballal]

Just pray like hell that the world does not end before this games comes out!!!

[Dodanodo]

Just pray like hell that the world does not end before this games comes out!!!

It won't. Even if the world were to end on the day the Mayan calender ends, it would still not be this friday. The Mayan calender doesn't end for another 100 years atleast. So on to 2013 and ROME II, Yeeeh!!

[Shigawire]

Well... it's not necessarily even the end of the Mayan calendar as some claim. This "Mayan prophecy" thing is a western construct.
http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2012/...n-priests.html

[MathiasOfAthens]

I am guessing the regions of the provinces will have towns and citys but if there is a siege there it will be fought on a landbattle map instead of a siege battle?

[Ngazi]

Probably the regions still belong to the province capital. There can't be less siege battles if they all have a town.

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

From what I understand it will be a bit like ETW (and onwards) with the settlements throughout the province, but instead of only being able to damage enemy settlements (as in ETW and onwards) you will be able to control them, so the area you control is more fluid, and it is harder to defend all your lands, except with player-made forts and standing armies. Sounds pretty good to me.
I hope that a faction's strength lies in its armies more than the cities it controls, so that if a faction's army is wiped out, they're pretty much defeated there and then, like in real life.

[Ngazi]

Like how Hannibal conquered Rome by defeating her army there and then?

[saxdude]

Serious misunderstanding of the second punic war.