The martial didn't invite me on the campaign for some reason, but I went anyway. As the main war party wasted days on a town-siege only to abandon it, I took two castles. The horse-men aren't so tough when cornered inside their walls... Well, actually *these* horsemen have a lot of strong infantry, but I was using huge numbers of viking infantry (from captured lands awarded to me) and tundra archers from the homelands.
Good King Yaroglek awarded me the second castle, and I figured... Why not? Last I saw, the Sarranids were too busy hiding from our (ADD) main war party to mount a real counterattack. They'd even tried once, only to get 4 of their lords captured.
So yeah, of course 300 men sieged the castle as soon as I accepted it. Outnumbered 10-1, and mysteriously no sign of the friendly war party, we decided to make them pay for every inch.
I personally got 90 kills before they surrounded me, and in the confusion I slipped off the wall. Normally I'd just be captured, but I fell between the wall and a building, stuck in a "falling" state forever. Nearly dead, but the enemy couldn't finish me off, and I couldn't retreat with them nearby.
There's a kill-self command just for this, except you have to enable cheats first. Which requires restarting the program.
FINE I'll just load my save from just before the battle and NOT accept the doomed castle I guess
I WAS going to accept the loss but noooo.
Mount&Blade Warband. Was using Freelancer and Diplomacy, though the only effect of that was that I had the option to surrender the castle AND pay about 15,000 gold to walk away. Yeah, fifteen *thousand*. They only pay 2,000 for their lords... guess I'm a big deal.