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In article <4da2e7a7$0$89734$3b214f66@tunews.univie.ac.at>, 
devnull@otech7.tuwien.ac.at says...
> 
> In article <MPG.280cd6669a04faa49897e0@news.demon.co.uk>, 
> Angus wrote:
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> 
> >I still haven't worked out when you hold the pointer near a gate what 
> >that rectangular (rhomboid) icon means. You can get the flame icon as 
> >well, and the ladder one, which are pretty obvious, but...? 
> 
> I never noticed, but as I said I pretty much gave up on gates or siege 
> battles at all.
> 

It seems its a "feature".

I noticed that the yellow rhomboid appears when you defend a stronghold, 
and it basically tells the selected troops to man the battlements, but 
it seems to have seeped through into the attacker's options as well, at 
least as far as the icon appearing.

I fondly remember games like Midwinter and Carrier Command when we used 
to get fantastic manuals.  :)


> I almost always works if you have aprox. even numbers, seems the AI 
hates 
> sieges battles no less than we do :-)

This tactic has been working well for me, thanks - although I have 
managed to "steal" a couple of stronghold's when the foolish occupier 
had only a couple of units at home, neither of which were bow men.

I think I'm at the stage where my name is starting to "ring out" so I 
maybe getting some attention from the Shogun sooner than wanted.