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According to the rules, if an army is fighting within a fortified area, it gets to add the combat/defense bonuses provided by those fortifications to its own offensive and defensive bonuses.
Three questions have come up in my group:
1) Should the DV bonus provided by walls apply against airborne attacks (such as, oh, a flight of wyverns)?
2) Wouldn't watchtowers more likely add to OM rather than DV? The number of combatants who can fight from a watchtower is negligible compared to the size of the army itself. While a few dozen soldiers might be able to fight from a watchtower, the vast bulk of the army within the city walls is going to be on the ground or on the battlements, and the watchtowers aren't going to be much of a hidrance to an invading army's ability to inflict damage on those forces that aren't inside or atop the watchtowers (which is about 99% of your army). In my opinion, watchtowers should add +1 or +2 to your OM and to your initiative (if you're using init in your mass combat) since they can see the approaching army from far away, and perhaps even grant the Sniper Support tactic, but they shouldn't add anything to DV. Just my opinion, of course.
3) Should a castle's +8 Defense modifier apply to an army that is entrenched within the city walls in a district containing a castle, but not actually within the castle walls?