Siege question

[Jazzepi]

Snacktime said:
so essentially the only way i get the inside castle force to join with the guys from elsewhere is to fight outside the castle. well, that's good to know, worst case would be i move the guys in from elsewhere and then get clobbered in two battles.

One of the things that isn't obvious that took me a long time to figure out. Say you have two forces, force A and force B. Together they can defeat the enemies' main army, force C. Apart, either one of them is going to be slaughtered.

Assuming that enemy force C is sieging your force A inside of a castle. As long as you have at least one nearby friendly province to retreat to, it's entirely possible to simply script your entire army to retreat from the castle once they've been attacked. This allows you to gather up your force B and A even though one of them got pinned inside of a castle.

Jazzepi