[Discuss] Abusing game logic - Starving tens of thousandstodeath?!?!

[Alex Davies]

>From: "Samuel Knowlton" <sam at iamsam.org>
>I'm with Gias Kay Lee on this one. This was routinely a medieval warfare
>tactic, used to great effect at no less than the Battle of Antioch during
>the First Crusade. If you didn't have enough guns 'n butter to storm the
>castle, you sat there until they ran out of food and surrendered.
>

Correct me if my history is out, but didn't the First crusade actually not 
succeed because of that? As I recall, the crusaders were running out of time 
before a turkish relief army would aerrive so they had to find a defector on 
the inside who would open the gates and allow them to storm the city from 
the inside. Not only that, but when they arrived they barely held it against 
the attack of Kerbogha, and most of the besieging forces never went on to 
their ultimate target, Jerusalem - even those that did waited for a year 
before doing so.

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