What the?????

**bovi** · 08-06-2008, 23:00

Sorry for not reading your post well enough, I thought you had won but quit too early.

The easiest way to get rid of their reinforcements is to actually attack the reinforcements and keep the siege. Set the siege with one army and attack the reinforcements with the other. You'll have an open field battle where the garrison is not present.

**zooeyglass** · 08-07-2008, 03:29

Originally Posted by bovi

The easiest way to get rid of their reinforcements is to actually attack the reinforcements and keep the siege. Set the siege with one army and attack the reinforcements with the other. You'll have an open field battle where the garrison is not present.

i was about to recommend the same thing. surely if you have five stacks waiting around, you can use one to do the sieging, and bring a couple of the others to bear on the pesky reinforcements.

**Marcus Ulpius** · 08-07-2008, 06:50

I had to give control to 2 of my other armies present on the field to the AI and it helped. The army under my control was fighting with one stack, while the AI went for another one. I was able to rout my enemy by separating their phalanxes from support troops, then engaging the support troops with 2 princeps, using my 2x classical hoplits and some princeps to stop their phalanx advancement from the front and moving everything else I had to outflank their phalangites.

In the end, after their pahalanx units were routed, I've split my forces to help those 2x princeps untits that were bravely holding against Parthian Spearmen Red Sea infantry and "Bnei Shevet Aravim", while other part of my army went to help the AI where some units were pinned down by the phalanxes of the second Ptolie army. Eventually I've won, it did cost me more soldiers than it would be if I could control all my armies myself, but at least I had a victory. And my 3-rd army didn't even have to enter field.

P.S. I've noticed that "Red Sea Light Infantry" says "Heavy Infantry" in their description on the battlefield. Why is that?

Second, turns out that Iberian Light Infantry are excellent phalangite killers. They've killed Klerouchoi even better than my princeps. They totally mess phalanx battle formation when attacking phalanx from the flank, something that my princeps units were unable to do. They've only forced phalangites to switch to swords on the flanks, but their overall formation remained intact.

**||Lz3||** · 08-07-2008, 07:02

when fighting night battles you can avoid reinforcements, both those of the AI as well as yours... but well you would need BI or Alex to do that -though I'm not sure if night battles are retroactive , if not you would need to start a new camapign to make it work...

, PS alex its not save game compatible (so far)-

**Lysimachos** · 08-07-2008, 07:30

Originally Posted by Marcus Ulpius

P.S. I've noticed that "Red Sea Light Infantry" says "Heavy Infantry" in their description on the battlefield. Why is that?

The classification of units only serves the purpose for the ai which unit to build. Setting a classification that doesn't fit the real function of a unit is a way to determine the ai's recruiting behaviour.

Originally Posted by ||Lz3||

when fighting night battles you can avoid reinforcements, both those of the AI as well as yours... but well you would need BI or Alex to do that -though I'm not sure if night battles are retroactive , if not you would need to start a new camapign to make it work...

, PS alex its not save game compatible (so far)-

Well, i have made the daring move to try by myself if the alex-pack that you have in your sig can be used to continue a savegame and by now i have not encountered (unsolvable) problems. But i think night battles are not retroactive although the respective traits seem to be.

**||Lz3||** · 08-07-2008, 22:43

Originally Posted by Lysimachos

Well, i have made the daring move to try by myself if the alex-pack that you have in your sig can be used to continue a savegame and by now i have not encountered (unsolvable) problems. But i think night battles are not retroactive although the respective traits seem to be.

!!

watch out your traits carefully, all those packs change the EDCT , wich usually messes the traits up

**Lysimachos** · 08-08-2008, 05:47

Originally Posted by ||Lz3||

!!

watch out your traits carefully, all those packs change the EDCT , wich usually messes the traits up

Well, i know that, but i tried and it worked. I don't know if some unimportant governor may have gotten messed up traits, but all significant familiy members are perfectly fine.

**Aemilius Paulus** · 08-13-2008, 15:33

When I had a similar problem with the AI, I was sieging Roma as the AS, the AI had two full armies against my two armies. I decided to storm the city and the result was that both mine and the AI's reinforcements did not make it to the battle. I got the message "Reinforcements Delayed?" and I fought the battle just the way I like it: a single army of my own against a single army of my enemy. This was most likely because I always play with the graphics settings on the maximum and my computer is not fast enough to render four armies on a single battlefield, if I am not mistaken. The RTW engine recognizes your computer's capabilities and tries to not overload your it. By the way: I did have the option "Unlimited Men on the Battlefield" turned on.