"Disease Outbreak" Mechanic Is Backwards

[Kimbole]

The besiegers should lose more often than they win when besieging major, built up fortifications during the first couple of centuries.

For this to work, you would have to overhaul the fortification system substantially along with the siege system?

Not saying it would be a bad thing, but you would need a lot more granularity to fort construction and maintenance. I sort of think updating your forts and adding things like food stores, water sources and defences could be fun. Would then mean choice between a cheap but weak fort to briefly slow armies and heavily defended refuges that are very expensive to build and maintain in different areas. Something like different upgrades could reduce the risk of some of the negative rolls for defenders.

Would want a counterbalance for the attackers though...

 

[L0rd0fLight]

I think you have seen too many Hollywood movies romanticizing what castles were like in this time period. Sure some castles had wells and some had more space than others but we are talking about the average general run of the mill castle. Why would I have my army positioned right up against the walls? All I need to do is stay close enough to prevent supplies from entering. Again, I think the mechanic is not needed at all as the added attrition for sieging a castle is quite sufficient. Just drop it out of the game and I'm sure nobody would miss it all.

Why would one talk about the average castle when clearly they are not even represented in game, what we have ingame are large castles and then forts which defend a large area of land. But if you want to look at the average castle then backed up bathrooms isn't really a thing as vast majority of castles if not all had toilets that were on the walls of the castle and thus the feces would fall outside the castle, or if one defecates in a chamber pot it would then be dumbed again outside the castle walls, as you said there is no plumping so how would the bathrooms be backed up. Rat infested grain was not that common, there are easy ways to avoid this. Instead of your entire argument being hur dur you watch movies why not come up with an actual argument.