Re: CA's target group customer...
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Originally Posted by Ulair
Isn't the skirmish thing a feature of having ordered the skirmishers to fire on a particular unit and so they ignore all others (effectively go off skirmish except if their target unit gets too close)?
Yes, it is, but it doesn't work.
The other day I had a battle where (can you believe this) a single unit of Byzantine infantry invaded my province of Kiev held by a full 20 stack army!
I decided to fight the battle on the battlemap because I've had nasty shocks with autocalc on this type of battle before.
So the Byz inf comes running across the bridge and I've got my five archer units on "skirmish" mode all firing at it.
By the time the Byz get across the bridge they've already lost half their strength, but now they turn right and attack my three archer units. To my extreme annoyance, all THREE of those archer units just stand there and fail to run while the Byz inf just ploughs straight into them!
Most unamusing. So the answer is no, the skirmish feature doesn't work.
BTW, thanks for your comments about VI, I will probably take your advice and get a copy. But I'd still really like to know whether or not the skirmish feature and the uneven unit dragging problems have been fixed.
Re: CA's target group customer...
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Originally Posted by screwtype
BTW, thanks for your comments about VI, I will probably take your advice and get a copy. But I'd still really like to know whether or not the skirmish feature and the uneven unit dragging problems have been fixed.
I can confirm that the uneven unit dragging problem isn't fixed. Just noticed last night, trying to redeploy two units of Ghazis nicely lined up. Dragged 'em out at another point and got the usual one-long-thin-one-short-fat one ~:( .
On the skirmish thing: have you tried cancelling the archers target orders? On reflection it might be that targetting archers at a unit turns the archers off skirmish behaviour altogether, even for their target unit. Doing a 'halt' to cancel the order may reset it (this discussion rings a vague bell - I'm sure I've read the answer somewhere here in the last year...). Just a thought.
~:cheers:
Ulair
Re: CA's target group customer...
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Originally Posted by Ulair
I can confirm that the uneven unit dragging problem isn't fixed. Just noticed last night, trying to redeploy two units of Ghazis nicely lined up. Dragged 'em out at another point and got the usual one-long-thin-one-short-fat one ~:( .
Hahahahah yeah that's the one! It is pretty silly isn't it. Didn't happen with STW. I'd still really love to know why they built a new engine for MTW when the STW engine was better ~:confused:
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Originally Posted by Ulair
On the skirmish thing: have you tried cancelling the archers target orders? On reflection it might be that targetting archers at a unit turns the archers off skirmish behaviour altogether, even for their target unit. Doing a 'halt' to cancel the order may reset it (this discussion rings a vague bell - I'm sure I've read the answer somewhere here in the last year...). Just a thought.
~:cheers:
Ulair
I hadn't considered that possibility but then even if that works, the function is still broken, because it doesn't work the way it should. And even if it does work the way you say it does, it would be pretty useless since you'd never know which unit your archer was firing at anyhow.
