Still fighting the good fight against the Welsh, whats left of th irish and now England...

MTW2 Kingdoms gets harder. I knew the English would send a substantial force up to teach me a lesson. They did and it worried me as it looked like 2000 men.

During the battle I realised that half that force was entirely catapults (and a few battered units)
The city they were trying to capture was a top level, massive walled city.

It was Newcastle and it had cannon towers and a fair garrison. I actualy sent some pikemen out to attack the catapult army (which had attacked a section of wall but been ruthlessly mauled by cannon fire from the towers). The catapult army never even got the wall down, they were hammered and there was an awful lot of firewood left on the battle field. The pikemen took a beating but survived.

The other flank did have some siege towers, and some actual cannon but even they got slammed by cannon fire. That side of the city handled itself as the cannons decimated the enemy army.

As that battle was taking place I sneakily attacked the English capital via sea and took it in an almost bloodless battle...

Annoyingly I ran out of time for some of the Victory Conditions.....