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Kraxis
10-18-2002, 18:49
Try to pit two crews of any type against each other...

What you will see is Peasants (using the same animation) fighting in their spear/pitchfork style with swords flying over their heads.

When I saw this the first time I almost fell over with laughter... It looked so funny I could hardly keep track of the battle.
If it had not been so funny I guess I would have been a little angry that such a glaring oversight had been done.

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Mithrandir
10-18-2002, 19:43
Even funnier :
attack enemy siege crews with cavelry, leave only one man alive and the next time you fight the AI it'll have a useless unit on the field which will stay there until the end until you kill it http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/biggrin.gif.

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maroule
10-18-2002, 19:51
easier to do (because leaving one man alive is sometimes difficult when your steppe cavalery is on them), just click attack on the siege engine itself (and not the crew), it will be destroyed quickly and the unit likewise useless.
solypsist
10-18-2002, 20:34
but the engine will return (with that full crew you left alive) next battle (if there is a next battle)
TheLastEuropean
10-18-2002, 20:58
Really?? I thought that destroying the weapon made the crew just dissolve. Damn. I always made a point of destroying the engines then targetting the fleeing crew afterwards. So, you need to destroy the crew rather than the engine to completely do away with them? Or do you need to get both (crew and engine) for that?
aX1s
10-18-2002, 21:21
Only need to kill of the crew destroying the engine only stops it from being used in the battle your currently in
Gringoleader
10-18-2002, 21:42
Had something like that happen in a siege. The guy parks a Culverin outside my castle and I'm like "This is gonna hurt" but after the first shot an arrow tower nails one of the gunners and the thing just sits there unable to fire. I did laugh.

Then they mobbed me.
Alrowan
10-19-2002, 08:58
i just take out the siege weaopn in MP.. but in SP the crews
shokaku76
10-20-2002, 10:26
After you run out of ammo, and need infantry quick... well.. there they are! Earlier today, I was attacking Aragon. Outcome was never in doubt. Attack has gone well, and Aragons were defeated. A few spearmen were still around, and had not routed yet. For fun, I decided to attack them with my Trabuchet crew. I send in 4 crew = 80 men against the 53 spearmen. After few min, 53 spearmen routed... I lost 13 crewmen, but they had killed 30 and captured 11. http://www.totalwar.org/ubb/smile.gif Now, this was after the general was captured... but that got me wondering. How good are the crew? They have got to be better than peasants... right?