Korlon
04-14-2008, 01:15
This is for EB 1.0 by the way.
So I'm playing my Pontos campaign. About ten seasons ago I finally got the option to recruit those Scythe chariots from my starting city. My economy got better in the past few turns so I recruited one as I've never actually used one in my RTW history.
So there was a small Eleutheroi stack of one unit of Galatian Shortswordsmen outside of Ankyra and there was also a rather large stack of Ptolemaioi near Ankyra as well. I wanted to have some fun so I saved beforehand to try out the scythe chariots. I engaged battle with the Ptolemaioi stack.
Battle began and I moved my chariots towards the enemy. Just for you information, I only had a unit of scythe chariots against the stack. After about three seconds or so, the battle just ended. I wasn't anywhere close to the enemy before the battle end message popped up with a Close Defeat. No casualties on either side and my Chariots moved backwards on the campaign map to a safer spot.
Thinking it was just a fluke, I tried it again, but the same thing happened. Close defeat. So on the off chance it was because the large army somehow routed my chariots, which was impossible because I saw that I still had eager morale before the battle ended, I tried against the Eleutheroi stack. Battle ended after a few seconds again.
Is this a bug with chariots or something? I have all the permanent fixes for 1.0 installed by the way.
So I'm playing my Pontos campaign. About ten seasons ago I finally got the option to recruit those Scythe chariots from my starting city. My economy got better in the past few turns so I recruited one as I've never actually used one in my RTW history.
So there was a small Eleutheroi stack of one unit of Galatian Shortswordsmen outside of Ankyra and there was also a rather large stack of Ptolemaioi near Ankyra as well. I wanted to have some fun so I saved beforehand to try out the scythe chariots. I engaged battle with the Ptolemaioi stack.
Battle began and I moved my chariots towards the enemy. Just for you information, I only had a unit of scythe chariots against the stack. After about three seconds or so, the battle just ended. I wasn't anywhere close to the enemy before the battle end message popped up with a Close Defeat. No casualties on either side and my Chariots moved backwards on the campaign map to a safer spot.
Thinking it was just a fluke, I tried it again, but the same thing happened. Close defeat. So on the off chance it was because the large army somehow routed my chariots, which was impossible because I saw that I still had eager morale before the battle ended, I tried against the Eleutheroi stack. Battle ended after a few seconds again.
Is this a bug with chariots or something? I have all the permanent fixes for 1.0 installed by the way.