How I defend gates in RTW
This is obviously not even optimized since I don't play campaigns and usually with cav/archers anyway. Could've probably won if I didn't move the pikemen to the left who knows but it ended up working out well enough to show how stupid low hit chances are to the front.
Works in basically any settlement due to a pretty generous zone where the units run forward till they're basically on the streets. This may seem irrelevant in settlements that don't have a straight path to the plaza but killing units before they run to the end of the unit and start fighting is pretty doable. Not really needed by the time larger settlements are defended due to the abundance of towers and the AI constantly running to the plaza. The only time where this is still nice would be when the ram somehow doesn't get burnt down or a spy opens the gates.