Problem with berserk/turn 50 combat resolution...

[love crime]

Well, my problem was not really figuring out how to kill dispossessed spirits in a siege... that was just the unfortunate circumstance of the story which led to my real displeasure... namely that almost my entire army was killed not by spell, sword, or even cowardly flight into enemy territories, but by a strange and injust game mechanism.

I also agree too many sieges are resolved by the 50 turn limit as the previous poster said... but my main problem is with the way berserkers are just killed at the limit, regardless of what that limit may be.

Just as a related aside, anyone else ever deal with the frustration of routing troops caught in the gates of a castle, unable to retreat (because of unrouted troops trying to attack behind them), unwilling to fight, and generally acting as a wall dragging the combat to turn 50 (assuming they happen to be large/hard for the enemy to kill)... makes one wish the combat ai would allow friendly routers to pass by... or at least fight back when cornered.