HUGE bug: Enemy intercepts, then doesn't attack. timer runs out, and I lose?!?!?!?

[pevergreen]

We had a big thread on this a while back. Search function is your friend.

As it has been said, it was concluded it was a feature, wether or not a correct one, varies upon taste. I see it as a correct one, as like Beskar says, you either fight through or are defeated.

Like that thing that happened to Caeser in the Gaulish forest, it was a historical battle in RTW.

[Slaists]

We had a big thread on this a while back. Search function is your friend.

As it has been said, it was concluded it was a feature, wether or not a correct one, varies upon taste. I see it as a correct one, as like Beskar says, you either fight through or are defeated.

Like that thing that happened to Caeser in the Gaulish forest, it was a historical battle in RTW.

Like I said before: the problem lies in the fact that the ETW AI does not know how to retreat. Come on, having two units of light cavalry raiders at your disposal, YOU wouldn't be assaulting a gun fort swarming with troops, just to test whether you really will get defeated. YOU'd retreat... The ETW AI doesn't know how to do it.

The doubts about whether this is an 'intended' feature arise when one sees the 'attacker' being able to deploy field defenses whereas the 'defender' (interceptor) cannot. At least, it seems, CA could not get their thoughts straight: which way it should go.

[Prussian to the Iron]

We had a big thread on this a while back. Search function is your friend.

i may be missing something, but whenever i search for something i get just about everything but what i am looking for. and even then, what would i look for to find a thread like this? 'intercepting wrong sides'?!

i hate search function; it almost never comes up with what i want, and keywords have to be perfect and exact.

[PseRamesses]

Prussian iron,
Did they intercept u during your move or during the AI´s move? If they did during your move you have walked into their zone of control and you have to defeat or remove the "obstacle" in your path. Makes perfect sense to me m8.
If they intercepted u during the AI´s move they simply took a defensive stance and it also makes perfect sense to me too

[resonantblue]

It makes sense to me. It brings usefullness to forts. In reality, you might be able to go around a fort, but if you're marching in the vicinity the fort's light cavalry would destroy your lines of communication. Which is why in reality you would have to take that fortress. The intercept simulates that because if you're trying to go around the fort in its vicnity (let's call that the fortress garrison's light cavalry sortie range) that means your lines of communication run through the fort's interdiction zone.

Which, if it were real ife, meant you had to attack the fort. And you can actually build a chain of forts that can't be bypassed as in previous TW games where it only meant you took an extra turn to get by the fort. Which, if one looks at the Iberian campaigns during the Napoleonic Wars, is how it should be.

[pevergreen]

i may be missing something, but whenever i search for something i get just about everything but what i am looking for. and even then, what would i look for to find a thread like this? 'intercepting wrong sides'?!

i hate search function; it almost never comes up with what i want, and keywords have to be perfect and exact.

For your situation, I would have searched "intercept" maybe searching only thread titles.

Search checks the title of the thread and the posts in the thread, so if its mentioned it will come up. I forget how it ranks them though. Maybe most recent is first.

[Prussian to the Iron]

exactly. you said:

big thread on this a while back.

which means it would take forever to find it. i am getting pretty annoyed when people constantly tell others to use the search function.

if it was better, maybe i would. ive tried before. it is crap.

[pevergreen]

exactly. you said:


which means it would take forever to find it. i am getting pretty annoyed when people constantly tell others to use the search function.

if it was better, maybe i would. ive tried before. it is crap.

I did a quick search for intercept, it was on the second page. Thats about the 25th entry or something. Took me 40 seconds.

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showt...ight=intercept

Its even in the thread title

[Prussian to the Iron]

it doesnt matter. if you're just going to continually shove 'search function' down my throat, than just dont talk to me.

[Fisherking]

Chill out guys!

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