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(pardon the long post due to screen shots. It was the best way to make my point)
Pop question. You're at war and you want to attack an enemy city and the strongest unit you have attacks at '8'. That enemy city has 3 healthy Longbowmen with a City Garrison I (+20% city defense), City Garrison II (+25 city defense), and a Drill I (extra First strike chance) promotion on each Longbowmen. Plus, each longbowmen has been fortified long enough to have a forification bonus of +25%. They also have a fortified spearmen (you're using Ballista Elephants), and some Horse Archers and a healthy War Elephant in the city.How many units will you lose attacking this city?
(screen shot of their city below) 
Have your guess? Ahh... but this was a trick question, because you didn't know how many Trebuchets you had to negate all that. 
Ahh, thats a beautiful thing, isn't it? Each Trebuchet attacking, causing damage, and then withdrawing. Each attack with a Trebuchet then gets easier and easier as the enemy's ability to defend that city gets weaker and weaker. Once you have Trebuchet-ed the enemy as badly as you can, then ATTACK!
 (below is after the battle
 So the answer to the original question is:
NOT A SINGLE DARN LOSS attacking and taking that city. NONE. ZERO. If you had no Trebuchets or even catapults, I would imagine that city MIGHT have beaten every single one of those units I attacked with. But, I built several Trebuchets and gave them as many bonuses I could of city attacking. I didn't lose any, and each of those Trebuchets gained experience from withdrawing successfully, making future attacks all the more likely to succeed with additional city attack bonuses. Bombard each city down to 0% defense then attack with some catapults, or preferably trebuchets, with as many city attack bonuses as you can. If you lose a couple taking it, isn't that a great trade off for taking a city and also while keeping your other offensive units healthy? If I had lost 2 Trebuchets in that attack, wouldn't that have been very worth it still? I build about 10 offensive units and then build catapults and Trebuchets pretty much exclusively. As long as you attack each city in the above fashion, you shouldn't lose a SINGLE one of those 10 offensive units. Only the occassional catapult or trebuchet. Then each of those offensive units gets to stat-jack their promotions and be all the more impressive. Each surviving catapult/trebuchet gets more experience and bonuses to make it easier when you move onto the next city. So, don't underestimate the power of the catapults, Trebuchets or Cannons. They will win wars for you.
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