Aaarrgh. Frustration!

I just had a CTD after a battle, no big deal, its happened before and I have saved my game.
BUT when I reload the game, my kickass fleet (all leveled up) with my elite cavalry wing on board (6 units of equites romani and extraordinarii, all with chevrons) has vanished in the middle of the med between Syracuse and Lepki.
All those missions across the alps to beef up my men, wasted.
All those anti-pirate excursions, for nothing.
Grrrrrr.:furious3:

There is no point or reason for this thread, Im just very annoyed and felt the need to vent some irritation. Feel free to add your own examples of when your PC has narrowly avoided taking flying lessons out of the window...

Ok, they have reappeared a turn later. Very, very strange...

On the topic of strange, I am in the middle of a battle in the middle of the sahara desert, and this is the view...
https://img103.imageshack.us/img103/...ddesertub8.jpg
I must have stumbled across an oasis...

Your army didn't march through a wardrobe cupboard did they?

Yeah, I have had one after battle CTD but when I played the battle again it functioned as normal. Interested in the cause but more happy that I replayed it without one :)

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Originally Posted by Kugutsu

Ok, they have reappeared a turn later. Very, very strange...

On the topic of strange, I am in the middle of a battle in the middle of the sahara desert, and this is the view...
https://img103.imageshack.us/img103/...ddesertub8.jpg
I must have stumbled across an oasis...

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When I assaulted Bostra I experienced something similar, and I can't have stumbled across an oasis - because of the assault bit.

If folks can let us know of the coordinates, we can try to see if the terrain is out of place and fix it.

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Originally Posted by Caratacos

Your army didn't march through a wardrobe cupboard did they?

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:laugh4:

They must have been lost in the Mediterranean Triangle.

Just a question: Ain´t it true that a big part of nowadays North Africa was very "green" [bushes, trees, other green staff] before men came and went "TIMBER!" all the way to construct boats and buildings?

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Originally Posted by Subedei

Just a question: Ain´t it true that a big part of nowadays North Africa was very "green" [bushes, trees, other green staff] before men came and went "TIMBER!" all the way to construct boats and buildings?

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True. North Africa, around Carthage and Numidia, was a very nice place. (Current day Tunisia isn't a desert though, it's a "mediterranean" climate.) The "Africa" province was one of Rome's three grain baskets. When Carthage fell to the Vandals, Rome quickly made peace and resumed trade because the city of Rome was at risk of famine.

Syria used to be a thick pine forest too (early bronze age).

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Originally Posted by Teleklos Archelaou

If folks can let us know of the coordinates, we can try to see if the terrain is out of place and fix it.

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The battle was directly north of Carama, about halfway between the city and the hill near the province boundary.
Upon closer inspection of the campaign map, that stretch of desert does have a greeny tinge, but I was still surprised to see a pine forest there!

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Originally Posted by MarcusAureliusAntoninus

True. North Africa, around Carthage and Numidia, was a very nice place. (Current day Tunisia isn't a desert though, it's a "mediterranean" climate.) The "Africa" province was one of Rome's three grain baskets. When Carthage fell to the Vandals, Rome quickly made peace and resumed trade because the city of Rome was at risk of famine.

Syria used to be a thick pine forest too (early bronze age).

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Egypt was much more fertile than it is today as well, I believe.

I've alerted the map guys to it and we'll fix that spot. Thanks.

I think there are some other spots like that around North Africa. In my campaign with Carthage I found some like 3 or 4, but I said that maybe was a fertile zone, but now I know it could be an error.

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Originally Posted by Caratacos

Egypt was much more fertile than it is today as well, I believe.

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Indeed, Egypt was another of the three Roman bread baskets.

Though Egypts has alway had its fertility limited to the small strech on either side of the Nile. Today much of that fertile land has cities in it. And the Aswan High Dam destroyed the entire Egypt system turning one of the most unique treasured environments on the Earth into just another patch of desert.