Siege Tower Glitch... Any advice?

**bugrat** · 06-28-2008, 01:05

In my most recent campaign as Hayasdan, when I do battles involving siege towers, I get this really annoying glitch every so often where the soldiers get stuck before entering the tower, and just kind of jiggle around down at the bottom of the tower for the entire battle. Sometimes this happens to my own units, and sometimes the AI's. This picture shows what I'm talking about:

http://www.imagedump.com/index.cgi?pick=get&tp=534906

This doesn't happen 100% of the time, but in the battle that the screenshot is from it happened in 2 out of 3 of Pontos' siege towers. The only way for me to finish the battle is to move my troops out of the gates and attack the tower from behind. This takes just a massive amount of time, and sometimes the siege tower randomly starts working again and the enemy troops will walk up and capture my gates while my troops are trying to get up behind them!

So frustrating ha ha...

Now what I'm wondering is if anyone else ever experiences this glitch? If so, I'm looking for a workaround.. Alternatively, are there any cheats that I can use to get around this? Is there any way to instant kill a unit when it's stuck? Also, if I'm surely going to win, is there any way to quit out of a battle and have it count as a win (Like "auto_win defender" while a battle is in progress)

Any help would be greatly appreciated..

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 06-28-2008, 01:31

That's a RTW bug. There is nothing modders can do to fix it.

I know of no midbattle cheats to win...
If you are defending, you could just wait out the timer and get a draw.

**bugrat** · 06-28-2008, 02:31

Thanks for the reply Marcus. I have Time Limits turned off, maybe I'll toggle those on now if I can.

I didn't know it was an original RTW glitch, but I'm not surprised, the stone walls in RTW always seemed to be the clunkiest feature of any game ever.. Maybe there's a cheat to remove all stone walls?

I never build 'em myself.

BTW I meant to put this in the tech support forum.

**MarcusAureliusAntoninus** · 06-28-2008, 08:44

Yeah, I always keep the time limit on to avoid bugs such as this one.
Stone walls rarely manifest the bug, but the siege towers for the large stone walls will more often mess up.

**QuintusSertorius** · 06-28-2008, 10:26

Heh, remove stone walls? It's one of the first things I build in many of my newly-captured settlements, so I can reduce the garrison necessary to keep the place safe.

As said, siege towers are RTW-bugged, one of the reasons I always build ladders if I have the choice. Also more generally one of the many reasons I'll tend to autocalc sieges, rather than play them out.

**||Lz3||** · 06-28-2008, 17:35

Originally Posted by QuintusSertorius

Also more generally one of the many reasons I'll tend to autocalc sieges, rather than play them out.

do you trust in the autocalc or do you give it a help? (ejem auto_win

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**not.sure** · 10-09-2019, 03:39

I know this is a decade late, but I hope someone sees this who needs it. I can here looking for the same answer. And then I just started frustratedly telling my unit to run around the base of the tower. The sides, the back, the front.

Then I noticed more and more of them were "coming loose "of the tower, so I kept doing this. When only a small handful were left "attached" to the opening at the base, I told them to run away from the mouth of the tower completely, and they came loose.

So try that.