Medieval 2 Total War Sicilian Chronicles 02 Under Siege by Spain

Here is a siege Spain made against me on my western front. As you can see in this new Total War it is actually fun to defend the wall and you have a chance to win there since troops are very well balanced so far. In this siege I was really lucky that the ram was destroyed by my archers because once it is at the wall there is no way to stop the ram from destroying the gates. So the fact that I destroyed it forced the enemies to use ladders. Now by my short experience with the game, I must say those ladders are a very risky way to storm the walls. So when you siege the walls with ladders make sure to back up your units with a minimum of 2 other units or you simply won't be able to gain control of the walls unless your first units are very experienced and well armoured.

Now at the end you will notice that I charged the fleeing enemies. When you hunt the enemies like that it brings you multiple advantages. When you hunt fleeing enemies you capture them as prisoners. That means that you have different choices after the battle. Set them free, ask a ransom, or simply execute them. I think there are only 2 positions you need to think about. My first choice is always execute. This way I’m sure those soldiers won't come back. The second is to hold them for ransom. The only ransom I asked was for the pope, which gave me 14000 florins. That is a lot. But other then that the most I ever saw was a ransom for 11000 florins once. Most of the time it more like 5000 and below. So might not be worth it most of the time. You must think of how many soldiers you have wasted to gain those few florins. So it's better if those enemie soldiers don't come back in my opinion.