How to get Custom Battle to NOT end before I\'ve killed most of the ene

[JRock]

Is there a way to keep a Custom Battle from ending before I've actually had the pleasure of running all of the enemy troops through with my sword?

It's frustrating playing a game where most of an enemy's troops are still left on the field and I have them surrounded but it won't let me finish them off - it just pops to the You Win screen.

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[Lord Romulous]

i second this.

i hate that on custom battle, historical battle and historical campaign the moment the enemy units routs you win the battle.

i was playing historical - crecy
the numbers are still roughly equal but i managage to rout them. ok fair enough but this does not mean the battle should end right there.
the enemy could have easily regrouped after running away a little.

imho these battles should end like it does in the sp campagin - when all the enemy is either dead or has been routed off the screen.

and btw what is the deal with crecy. the way it shows in the game the english have large mumbers of mounted knights. if i am not mistaken in the real battle all the knights dismounted and fought on foot. and also the english are postioned all over the place and the french are spawned very close to them. in the real battle the english had their defence lines set in the morning and the french arrived in the afternoon and attacked in the late afternoon.

[JRock]

Wasn't there an option you could choose in Shogun to make custom battles run to the end (when every enemy was either killed or routed off the map) instead of just winning like this? I seem to remember such an option in STW.

[eldaran]

Lord Romulous...at Crecy, if I remember my history correctly, the French dismounted, while the English remained mounted, and basicaly just rode the French knights down.

[Identity]

Not really a solution as such, but if you select a unit (any unit) and hold h (if hold position is an option for that unit, it will toggle hold position on/off , advancing the game by one frame each time, allowing you to watch your troops run down the routing enemy. You can't control your units though.

[JRock]

I don't think those last two replies had nothing to do with what I'm discussing.

I just wish I could finish off the enemy instead of being forced to auto-win when they rout.

I had a 2vs1 where I was vs 2 AI and I wiped out the first one and the second one routed with like 2/3rds of his troops left and popped up the win screen. Dammit, I wanted to kill the rest of his troops.

I'm pretty sure STW had an option where in Custom Battles you could continue to play past the normal point of "Win" so you could kill every last enemy.

Either way, MTW should certainly have that option in Custom Battle.

[JRock]

yeah

[JRock]

Would be a nice option for a future patch:
End battle when enemy routs OR Play full battle to the end.

Perhaps move this to the Patch/Fix forum where someone at CA can notice it and consider it.

[deejayvee]

Quote Lord Romulous...at Crecy, if I remember my history correctly, the French dismounted, while the English remained mounted, and basicaly just rode the French knights down.[/QUOTE]
Nope, it was at Poitiers that the French dismounted. And the English were dismounted but remounted rather than wait for the last French attack.

[Lord Romulous]

a bump for this cause i really want the devs to change the premature ending of battles.

or atleast tell us if we can mod it.

[JRock]

Thanks for the bump!

[JRock]

hmmm

[Dorkus]

You may already know this, but custom battles seem to end when the message "The BLANK are fleeing the field" would normally come up in the campaign.

At that point, the enemy has no chance of reforming, so all you're losing is the chance to run down some enemies (and in a single battle scenario, it's not that big of a deal).

[Lord Romulous]

I not a hundred percent sure of that. because i win a awful lot of battles in the first few minutes of custom battle.

and in the campagin when i have had the enemy is fleeing the field message it is almost never in the first few minutes of battle.


but in any case i still want the battles to end as they do in the campaign

attention devs could you inform if the code that switched the auto ending of custom battles etc on or off in stw is still present in mtw. if it is can we turn it on or off ourselves by making a alteration to some text file in the program directory ?



[This message has been edited by Lord Romulous (edited 10-25-2002).]