[Tao3300]

Fighting on the stairs would be kinda silly. Better to wait outside the doorway so that after your attackers are done running up the stairs with armor and weapons, you and your pals are waiting there at the choke point to layeth the smacketh down. The only real benefit to fighting on the stairs is that you still effectively impede progress if you're dead.

[the_af]

Exactly, fighting on the stairs is pointless.

If you are the attacking army, just wait it out. You've won the siege, and any defenders up the stairs will have to either come down or starve to death. Why risk attacking up the stairs?

[vidanay]

If you're at the bottom of the stairs, stuff the stairs full of firewood (tables, chairs, dressers, etc) and light it.

[CydeWeys]

Yeah, just burn/smoke out the defenders. If you're already in the bottom of the building it's over, just a matter of time when. You can also take the castle apart and cause it to collapse.

[dylan604]

what happens if you're running down the stairs and come upon the attackers on the way down?

[the_af]

Die? Surrender? If attackers have stormed the castle and are running up the stairs all is presumably lost anyway?

[dylan604]

If Errol Flynn could do it, then surely, everyone can do it

[the_af]

It's safe to assume if Errol is on your side, you've won.

[dylan604]

But this goes against if you're down to defending in the stairwells, you've already lost.

[the_af]

Let me fix it: if you are going down but you do not have Errol in your ranks, you've lost?