Serious Bug. Idiotic.

[Colovion]

>:(

I wrote a long post and it got erased. So let's try again:

Archers run away through the gates (there should be a "Lock the Gates" function to stop this) some get stuck on some elephants which like to get hit by arrows from the towers and they don't mind the archers being stuck on their legs, keeping the gates opened.

I have pictures:



Then I looked inside because I realized the elephants may want to eventually make their way down there when my Velites get there to ... push the elephants off the stuck archers. I look here and see something really stupid:



Yay - archers stuck in the hoplite formation. I got them out of this by setting the hoplites to loose - but they and the ones outside would've continued this until the timer ran out had I not done something about it. Eventually the elephants which were more than happy to get pelted by the tower archers until they tried to breach the gates - 5 of them were burned up by Burning Oil which was the only good thing about this battle.

This situation deffinately gets the:

WTF??!

[Soulflame]

I can't view the pictures, it needs a password to be viewable. Without the pictures, the story is a bit vague, but I guess the old bug of "tell unit x to do something, then unit y does it" is in effect here, along with some other bugs I've not seen (archers clamping elephants?)

[Colovion]

Fixed.

The thing I wanted to make clear was the following:

- The archers sitting running into the elephants/hoplites are going to do that forever until I move the units they're running into - the archers are routing.

- the elephants stopped moving right next to the gate...

[Thoros of Myr]

Also try attacking enemy seige weapons with yout infantry...oh dear... :(

[Jacque Schtrapp]

I keep having problems with bunched up hoplite formations. I always have to take them out of phalanx and move the units away from each other one at a time. This can be rather tedious and dangerous in the heat of battle.

[Soulflame]

Hmm very weird... usually hoplites make gaps for your own units. I had a cavalry unit who didn't want to go around a hoplite unit in a very dense ally, the hoplites still let them through.
Archers are just weird in Rome. They listen too late, without watching them they might chase fleeing enemies, stopping in the middle of your formation and proceed to kill a whole score of your men... I think I'll just stick to non-archer units, maybe a few javelin cavalry, but that's it.

Sidenote:
I notice this is Syracuse right? And you probably just started the Greeks. Why are you trying to keep the city? it's practically doomed since the Scipii just need that town and will eventually take it over, or it will just drain your resources since they keep sieging the town and thus keep killing a few men constantly. It's better to ship out that army asap and use it on Apolonia or against the Macedonians for a fast grip on Greece. Sell all sellable stuff in the city and move out.
I let only 1 unit of peasants stay in the city. They (along with the stone wall defenses) killed 250 scipii units (of the 600 that were attacking) I lost only 20 peasant before they routed.. could have gotten more if they didn't stop running all of the sudden.