Post-Patch: Stone Walls Bugged?

**Red Harvest** · 02-16-2005, 20:00

Will the oil drop if friendlies are nearby? If you were guarding the gate, the FF fix might prevent oil from dropping.

I think I've only had one battle ever where I was defending after a ram broke the gate and it wasn't in 1.2.

**aw89** · 02-16-2005, 20:10

The oil is there, and the pathfinding is anything but better... (lost several hundred men trying to get them to run up that gatehouse...)

**Slaists** · 02-16-2005, 20:40

The way I noticed it was sending a unit of hoplites through the gate opened by my spy in Corinth. From my experience before the patch, I was counting on losing about half the unit, but I lost just a couple guys to the arrows; no oil... Maybe it had to do with the spy opening the gate. Before the patch, even in this case, the gates would pour oil.

**Kraxis** · 02-16-2005, 22:21

Well it would make some sense that the spy would make certain that the oil was ruined somehow. Spilling it or something should be possible if you are able to bash open the gates.

**AntiochusIII** · 02-16-2005, 23:17

Hmm... Nice notice. I can't find any oil either. Then again, I never assault a stone-walled city without a ton of spies or a ton of onagers to break down/disable everything I could. How sad spies couldn't shut down those nasty towers...

May be it's the new spy feature, I guess.

Expert Please.

**hoom** · 02-16-2005, 23:31

Pre-patch to capture the gate house I had to take 2 units threw both sides of it to the ground

Funny, I always managed to capture it by sending one unit through at the top

**Red Harvest** · 02-16-2005, 23:37

Well, why didn't you mention the spy in the first post?

This is a an actual gameplay enhancement, not a bug. We discussed this quite a bit, how having a spy didn't stop the oil, so as a result sapping or other techniques were preferable to the open gate. Nice to see that CA fixed it.

They really should have bragged more about these enhancements in the readme...opportunity missed.