Assaulting

[Ricky B]

Yes, the more you assault with in one turn, the more losses the defenders will take - but overall you will "end" the battle more quickly by attacking with the smallest portion of your force that should succeed in the assault. In other words, the defenders will always lose half their strength if your assault succeeds, plus whatever losses are caused by the assault resolution. Say a battalion might kill 15 men with its assault, plus the defenders lose half of their strength. Assault with 3 battalions and the defenders might lose 45 men plus half their strength. So for a 600 man defender, the extra 30 men are a small number compared to the 300 or so lost from surrender, quicker to just plan on separate assaults than to try and overwhelm the defender in one assault, until the strength drops below 100 maybe.

If I have battalions that can break down into companies, I always try to assault with a strength equal to at least half the disrupted defender strength, or if the first assault I will hit a battalion with at least 2 companies that are in good shape.