You don't see Aragorn getting ♥♥♥♥♥-slapped around Middle Earth by a bunch of peasant girls, do you? I find that medium on Pendor gives me a nice balance of challenge, but still the chance to be that clearly defined hero. I enjoy playing my games as a fantasy lord and in all the fantasy movies I watched, the central character is a one man wrecking ball. I just don't see the point, to be honest. Note, I do not play Pendor on Hardest difficulty. Then again, why are you trying to hold castles and towns if you aren't level 20 yet? To make this work optimally, you probably need to be around level 20. Please note that these are a bit more advanced. It took me quite a while to figure these tricks out, but now that I have, I rarely, if ever, lose a siege defense. These are some tips, tricks and outright, unshamed cheese that I have picked up through hours of playing PoP. Nothing sucks more than taking a town and then getting steam rolled by an enemy faction that brings 1,000+ men to the fight. As anyone who has fought sieges in PoP before knows, it can be a nightmare.