RTW: Erratic unit movement in battle

[foop]

I've just started playing my first RTW campaign, and I'm still in the bewildered idiot phase. Maybe one day I'll be able to remember which set of javelin-armed Roman infantry is which.

In the battle map, my light javelin-armed infantry (Hastati?) have misbehaved a couple of times. I'm wondering if anyone else has noticed this? The first time, they were attacking down a road in a small village. After a couple of missile volleys they got stuck on "reloading" and the run/walk button was flashing on an off constantly. The next couple of times, they just didn't seem to want to use missile weapons on enemies in range. They've always had about half their ammo left when this happens.

It might just be that I was clicking too much and not giving them enough time to follow orders, but even being patient didn't seem to work.

[Zatoichi]

I've seen some similar stuff, mostly during seiges, where units get into a state - maybe it's when their formation is too wide for their eventual location or something... I did notice some strange behaviour from my calvalry when chasing some routing infantry - instead of attacking, they sort of ran up to them and then veered off at the last minute - kinda funny to watch, but annoying when you want to inflict maximum casualties to teach those hairy barbarians a lesson in manners!

[chemchok]

I've had a lot of pathfinding problems in towns and cities; the units have a tendency to hug walls and buildings and there seem to be a lot of invisible chokepoints. Of course, entering the town square seems to be a guaranteed way to break up any formation. If you're moving your troops in streets, it's best to have them in a column rather than a line. And when you do order them to move be patient, they'll appear to scatter when you first order them, but they'll eventually reconstitute into their formation. Another issue is entering gates, when I have troops that are positioned just outside the gates and try to get them to run through, they'll surge backwards and then run through them, anyone know if I'm not setting them up right beforhand?

As for the Hastati, if you want them to throw their javelins, put them on guard mode and fire at will, they'll unload all of their pilla at the nearest enemy. If they get stuck trying to throw, try pressing and holding Alt while clicking on the enemy unit, that will override their primary attack (the javelin) and force them into hand-to-hand combat.

[TinCow]

Sometimes I have problems getting units to run. This usually occurs when then are in groups.

[Arakasi]

City battles are where I have problems with pathfindings. It is really annoying trying to get people to march to the proper place. Often they turn around and run in the other direction. Sometimes they just seem to wander. If I double click and run them over it seems to work better though. The pathfinding is one of the things I really want them to fix in the patch. That and tweaking the AI and unit speeds/killing speeds.

[Mayfield The Conqueror]

City battles always create pathfinding problems. Also there seems to be a delay in how long it takes for your orders for a unit to move to actually *get* to your unit, and they take a few seconds to get their butts moving.. Ill teach them to not follow my orders slow!

[sylos]

ya city battles are a small problem....anyone had a prob where you tell units that are IN the city to move to somewhere else and they walk out the gates instead away from where i want them to go? its weird but except for those eensy teensy bitty probs ROME IS AWESOME!!!!