RTW Bugs

you could call it a bug...
there is a spelling mistake when you go into a naval battle and put the cursor over the withdraw button (which is inactive) "Cannot withdraw: Navies cannot withdrawf from battles" - there shouldn't be an f on the end of withdraw...

As Julii I have Carthago Nova with no governor , can't build anything of course but can recruit troops!!!

Fowarding a message from a junior patron

Originally Posted by Nergal:
I seem to have sniper onagers. I'm playing the greeks, currently invading egypt. This is fairly late game, so I'm using a combined force including onagers instead of the usual earlier-game seige engines. I have fought multiple small bands of egyptian royalty with my main force, only to have the onagers kill the opposing general with the first shot into the enemy general's unit. I've killed several faction heirs with this - apparently my flying rocks possess some sort of primitive homing ability ;) I don't recall seeing this effect against anyone but the egyptians so far; could be a chariot related bug. I'll test more over the weekend and post again if I can find any other info.

An enemy spy opened the gates before an assault of the gauls.I won the battle and built a spy myself to counter the enemy spy.It worked and the enemy spy fled the city.But after that, the gauls attacked the city several times more and in each of these attacks all of the gates were open.Even when I zoom on the battlemap outside of battles, the gates are open.The gates look destroyed, but they have 0% damage; so I can't repair them.Even upgrading the walls to the third level did not work.

Well, German Spearman can attack through the walls of a Level 2 wall.
If you position them as close as possible to the gate durign deployment their spears will show up on the other side of the wall.
If the enemies battering rams/ Elephants approach your spears start attacking and killing the 2 first guys. The Battering ram stops, 2 other guys move up and also get killed.
It was a really funny way to kill of a full stack of juli Hastati/Princeps because the very close proximity to the gate protects you from missle fire (dead angle).

Pre-battle screen says 77 wardogs when I know I only have 20 (Julii)

mfberg

Last night, playing Carthage, I was storming a Spanish city. My units were scattered in various parts of the city, moving toward the one remaining enemy unit that held the city square. Suddenly all my units stopped moving, and nothing would get them to move anymore. No matter where I clicked, I could get them to change facing slightly, but they would stop moving immediately after they started. I eventually figured out that the only way I could get them to move was to make them attack an enemy, so I had to charge them all from wherever they happened to be. This is the only time this has ever happened.

When playing as the carthaginians I kicked the Romans out of Sicilly I believe (cant think of town name so give me a break ) and allied with the greeks. Shortly after the greek diplomat goes over to my town on the left of Sicilly and goes through the animation of negotiating, but he doesnt open the screen... At the end of every turn he just goes through the animation then it skips it. It has done this in every carthaginian campaign that I have played when I allied with the Greeks.

I have this happen in multiple locations. My assumption is that the diplomat is trying to bribe your army, but either doesn't have enough denarii, or chooses not to pay it.

Bh

Originally Posted by soibean:
When playing as the carthaginians I kicked the Romans out of Sicilly I believe (cant think of town name so give me a break ) and allied with the greeks. Shortly after the greek diplomat goes over to my town on the left of Sicilly and goes through the animation of negotiating, but he doesnt open the screen... At the end of every turn he just goes through the animation then it skips it. It has done this in every carthaginian campaign that I have played when I allied with the Greeks.

Kill 'im quick.

not sure what's causing this problem, but single player battles dont work (only just noticed this so havent tried mp to see if it works) i set the armies up in custom, and when clicking start battle it returns me to the previous screen, same with quick battle ~:confused: for some reason historical battles and the campaigns work fine -- all i can think of is that moving factions to "unlockable" in the files, or the "historic battles" mod may have caused this - anyone with any of these changes noticed this?

Don't know if it's been posted yet but I really couldn't bother reading the 220 posts again :dizzy2:
Well, here goes: I got a funny Senate mission last night: I had to capture one of my own settlements within 5 turns. :huh:

Of course there was something that might have triggered this bug. The Senate asked me to capture Rhodes one turn after I conquered it. Next turn they cancelled their request (normal: I already had the settlement), but in the same turn they... demand that I take Rhodes... It goes now on for 5+ turns: Take Rhodos! Oh no, sorry, you already have it.... (1 turn later) TAKE RHODOS! oh yes....heh heh oops of course you already conquered it.... (1 turn later) TAKE RHODOS! ... etc

Haven't relaunched the campaign yet to check if this silly request will disappear but I guess it won't...
Should try to continue that campaign: at least the Senate will stop annoying me, lol.

I have just bought, installed and patched RTW. On the prologue first seige mission as soon as i click for the seige engines to fire fireballs, i crash out to desktop. I have a dual athlon AMD 1800+ on tyan tiget MPX mb. 1gb kington ram, audigy platinum , gforce 4 ti4600. i run in 1024x768x32 and have lowered graphics but to no avail. Is this a known bug, its pain as i cant even save the game in this mode. also, where is the bit to insert your user ID from the manual, wasnt in the install, maybe this is a problem for security!
Please help before i take this game back to the shop.

Could we have a moderator summarize bugs and features which need tweaking, rewrite them concisely and put them on a separate first page so that it's easier for devs and modders to address them. Currently the bug list is 8 pages long but it would be a chore for everyone to plow through more in future everytime they want to report a new bug to make sure there are no repeats.


Here's a bug... I think. Not sure if it has been mentioned before.
Open up the export_descr_character_traits file in the Data folder

Find the following:

Trigger V0150_Standard_Risky_Battle_Attacker_Crushing_Victory_VnV_Trigger
WhenToTest PostBattle

Condition WasAttacker
and IsGeneral
and not WonBattle
and BattleSuccess = crushing
and I_ConflictType Normal
and BattleOdds

Sorry, somehow my post got chopped off in half.

The bug is:
Open up the export_descr_character_traits file in the Data folder
Find the following:

Trigger V0150_Standard_Risky_Battle_Attacker_Crushing_Victory_VnV_Trigger
WhenToTest PostBattle
Condition WasAttacker
and IsGeneral
and not WonBattle
and BattleSuccess = crushing
and I_ConflictType Normal
and BattleOdds

The condition "and not WonBattle" should be changed to "and WonBattle".
Otherwise not winning instead of winning will give you a chance to get the trait.

Can't edit my posts. Could a moderator do some tidying up here. Thanks.

Originally Posted by soibean:
At the end of every turn he (Greek Diplomat) just goes through the animation then it skips it.

I would assume he is trying to bribe away your city but found the price asked by your defenders too high...? ~:)

I've read the previous 8 pages. I've got the problem of going back to the desktop when I use firing objects. Is there any solution ? or maybe I have to wait the 1.2 patch ?
thx
:help:

I was playing today as Selucid, and decided to take and Egyptian city. I start the siege and I am attack by the army inside and one outside the city. I was able to win even though I was outnumbered. Then back to the campaing map, I did not get a message that I won. I fought the same battle on the same turn, but this time I only had 72 soldiers (the ones that remain from the first battle) while the Egyptians had the same army as in the first battle. I hit autocalculate and still won with 72 men. Talk about a bug, my general ended up getting 2 starts from one battle that repeated itself.

So to sum. it up: I fought the same battle twice on the same turn, ended up wining both of them and my general got 2 more stars.

Good Bug. ~:cheers:

At the recent seige of Alexandria the AI placed one of my sap points underwater in the sea off the Alexandrian coast.

I ignored it and used the one on the beach instead. However, on breaching the wall and entering the city I discovered that the entire northern wall and gatehouse of the city was actually built in the sea and that the main northern road to the city square was under water.

Not only that but despite this fact the Egyptian army were attacking along it like so many suba divers. The only thing that didn't seem to work were flaming arrows. ~D

This Egypt town's building seems to be an optical illusion? These soldiers are running through the stone walls... You can see some of them are right in the wall. :dizzy2:

http://protein.biochem.queensu.ca/~d...r_the_wall.jpg

In battle, selected a group of two hastati, and ordered them to form at a certain location. Those yellow marks come up you know, and at the side of the hastati came there up yellow (or was they purple?) marks for my cavalry. Even if the cavalry was not selected. And the cavalry started moving. Really annoying, has happened more than once ~:confused:

I've noticed for sometime now that not all the seige equipment I am building actually appears on the battlemap.

Most typically missing are ladders.

I normally build 2xLadders and 2xSaps for each seige but have noticed that frequently I don't get the ladders. I have also had one seige tower go missing after I built it.

I think the problem might be linked to the composition of the army, I suspect that only certain units are allowed to carry ladders and if there aren't any in the army they don't appear on the map.

However, this ought to be handled on the strategy screen so that ladders are not offerred to armies that can't use them.

Originally Posted by Maltz:
This Egypt town's building seems to be an optical illusion?

That wouldn't be Alexandria per chance?

Originally Posted by soibean:
When playing as the carthaginians I kicked the Romans out of Sicilly I believe (cant think of town name so give me a break ) and allied with the greeks. Shortly after the greek diplomat goes over to my town on the left of Sicilly and goes through the animation of negotiating, but he doesnt open the screen... At the end of every turn he just goes through the animation then it skips it. It has done this in every carthaginian campaign that I have played when I allied with the Greeks.

He is trying to bribe your army. The AI does this alot. When you see a diplomat animation near your city or army, he is attempting a bribe. That Greek fellow is particularly good at it...putting your own spy or diplomat in the town (or army) seems to stop him cold.

Originally Posted by Maltz:
This Egypt town's building seems to be an optical illusion? These soldiers are running through the stone walls... You can see some of them are right in the wall. :dizzy2:

Dogs. Dogs are supernatural. SUUPEEERDOOOOG, woof-woof! Assaulted a greek town, captured all the gates before enemy reinforcements closed in, finished the garrison and leaved the town centre, getting ready to kill the reinforcements as well. Dogs rushed towards the enemy army. Should have smashed their pifs on the walls? Nope, they just run through them. :embarassed:. Funny picture, dogs pouring out from the base wall. Greek hoplites must have been astounded.

Next time I'll pray my superdogs fly. I wonder... maybe they'll manage to carpet-bomb egyptian elephants with doggie poo. ~D

Sorry, no picture, but I swear it was real. It's imperial campaign medium/medium, playing as Brutii.

Originally Posted by Feror:
I've read the previous 8 pages. I've got the problem of going back to the desktop when I use firing objects. Is there any solution ? or maybe I have to wait the 1.2 patch ?
thx
:help:

:help:

dont know if anyone mentioned this before but...
for Gaul - Swordmen graphic doesnt appear with the rest of the units on the battle screen until you're very close to it.

I dont know if this has been reported but, i do so now.
Single player....Its possible to increase the size of a unit beyond the intened size (numbers) take a unit that has suffered losses (the more the better) put it in a city to "retrain" then drag and drop another unit into it to bring it up to full strength.......after the unit goes through retraining it will it will be up to full strength + what ever-numbers that were draged and droped.
Example.... You have 1 man left from a unit of 100, put it in for retraining, then drap and drop to bring it to full strength... when trainning is done it comes out as a unit of 199 men.

Originally Posted by Sleepy:
That wouldn't be Alexandria per chance?

I think this was in Jeruselum, but I am not 100% sure. ~:) It was a huge city with a big city square.