Boot Camp - Finished - Soyweiser/Jotunheim wins!

[DragonRider]

Units inside a castle can retreat normally, oddly enough. Furthermore, if I storm a castle and you order both a break siege and move forces in from another province, the result would always be your combined forces attacking the besieging army outside the castle. Storming happens after other combat. So if I had tried to storm again this turn, I'd have been smashed by your forces to the north before I got through the walls and probably would have lost.

Which is all the more reason why I should have just rushed in. Even if the stuff inside wasn't bad enough to kill me by itself, I'd have still had to waste two turns trying to move north to intercept the reinforcements and then going back and storming the fortress afterwards (assuming there were even enough survivors for that), and even then I could have gotten bad luck and faced a combined army anyway depending on which province that battle was randomly fought in. It was a really bad call on my part. But then again, most of the ground forces you saw were moving in from other provinces and couldn't have taken part in a siege, so the Niefel Flames might have taken out enough to trigger an auto-rout without them.

But on yet ANOTHER hand, I didn't expect those vampires to show up. Since fliers get a siege bonus, they could have taken down the walls a lot faster than the expected 30 Dark Vines alone would have, so I might have had to give up the fortress anyway (or risk getting trapped in it without being able to repair the walls fast enough).