Reinforcements delayed?

[Aemilius Paulus]

The message occurs when the computer recognises the reinforcements are too much for the system to handle. You can get a message of a similar nature when you are creating the custom battle and you pick too many units, which results in that pop-up stating your system cannot handle all that. It is not random, and and what I said is the reason for this control is in that game settings .txt file somewhere in the folder of you RTW.

There have been numerous threads on this before, but I believe the search functions on this forums was recently disabled (uses too much resources), so one cannot search for old threads through this site.

[Blxz]

The message occurs when the computer recognises the reinforcements are too much for the system to handle. You can get a message of a similar nature when you are creating the custom battle and you pick too many units, which results in that pop-up stating your system cannot handle all that. It is not random, and and what I said is the reason for this control is in that game settings .txt file somewhere in the folder of you RTW.

There have been numerous threads on this before, but I believe the search functions on this forums was recently disabled (uses too much resources), so one cannot search for old threads through this site.

I don't think that is the only reason it happens. I had had reinforcements delayed before and then less than 3 or so minutes into the battle before anyone was even killed (coz i retreated to the corner to dishonestly win) the reinforcements arrived and started marching onto the field. So while you may be right about the system not handleing it, I think that is only one possible cause for it.

[Macilrille]

It is definately not. I have had a four unit stack waiting for six other units to come and had two enemy 5-8 unit stacks with only one turn up.
I think it is to simulate the uncertainty always prevailing on battlefields and I like it either way- well I hate it when it costs me the battle, but c'est la guerre....

[SwissBarbar]

Reinforcements that are delayed can join the battle still later.

[Drag0nUL]

TBH, I like the uncertainty that this feature adds to the game. It's more realistic IMHO.

What I don't like is the way AI is affected by this sometimes: if I'm siegeing a city with a large force of enemies inside, I have to fight several battles against 1-2 enemy units, just beacuse the AI 'thinks' the army inside the city will join too.