[Cheezeninja]

The whole way 'sieging' is done in dominions takes a little artistic liscense to make it viable in the game, as opposed to how it really went. In reality you could siege a castle without ever firing a shot, just plop your larger army outside and wait for the defenders to starve, or just bring some trebuchets or catapults and lob some rocks and diseased cattle over the wall. You could also immediately assault if you had the proper equipment (ladders, siege towers, etc..) With the battering of the gate happening during the actual assault, instead of being required for the assault. Its kind of implausible to assume any army can batter down ANY sort of gate without taking any losses whatsover, but for the sake of a non overly complex sieging system in the game it gets simplified alot. If anything, someone with a glamour would be better at sieging by virtue of the fact that they could walk in before the gates were shut, then simply overpower a few guards and open the gates when the army shows up.