Buildings on the Battlefield

**Proletariat** · 02-16-2005, 23:11

This sucks.

(I know, what a fine contribution to the thread.)

**hoom** · 02-16-2005, 23:21

I've had a port fight but it was off to the side & I fought in the middle of the map.
Wierd that the port is like that

Anyone tried moving units out onto the grey shore?

**HarunTaiwan** · 02-17-2005, 02:29

It was Capua's port.

I came from the north, blockaded and then got attacked.

**Mikeus Caesar** · 02-17-2005, 12:44

Hm....maybe if i cause the civil war and keep one of my scipii armies at the port, then someone will come for me....

**hoom** · 02-17-2005, 13:18

Careful attacking of rebels is more likely to be effective in letting you see such things.

I dunno about you guys but for some reason I seem to feel a lot more closely connected to the 1.2 battle maps.
They seem to somehow more closely relate to the campaign map.
I guess its probably a combo of me having given up on Rome quite quickly & the definite improvements in the ambience of the battle map.
Improvements I've noticed (possibly some are not real improvements?):
sun disk & lens flare
better texturing outside the main battle area
much better & more varied atmospheric effects
more real looking terrain features (looks less like perlin noise)
more likely to find useful terrain in useful places
(surprisingly) distant structures visible
nearby structures visible & even plonked it the middle of the battlefield (had a watchtower like that)
boats visible

Unfortunately there's a downside, that being the mysterious grey square shorelines.

**Deeppack** · 02-17-2005, 14:38

wow, I've fought many battles against armies blockading my ports or me blockading theirs, but they've never put me in the actual port. weird!!!

**ivoignob** · 02-17-2005, 16:28

has anybody seen if the large blue anomaly near the walls of alexandria has gone after the 1.2 patch?

**Oaty** · 02-17-2005, 23:56

Originally Posted by hoom

Anyone tried moving units out onto the grey shore?

Yes the grey shores are part of the 1.2 patch. They are an extension of land so that when you attack an army and there back is to the sea they can actually deploy on land. Otherwise there was a little nasty CTD because the enemy would be dployed in the ocean.