Timer in the battle field

**Lt Mor** · 02-18-2005, 20:24

What or how is the time for the fight in the battle field is decided ?

**hoom** · 02-18-2005, 22:02

Dunno but I'm very glad that 1.2 let me turn it off.
Now I get to maneuvre (gah someone 'borrowed' my dictionary!) at will & I can actually capture stone walled cities instead of missing out at the last moment due to the timer.

**Lt Mor** · 02-19-2005, 08:36

Originally Posted by hoom

Dunno but I'm very glad that 1.2 let me turn it off..

And how you do that ???

**Dutch_guy** · 02-19-2005, 12:09

before the campain just click on the grey box where it says something like '' battle timer off ''( in the choose faction for campain screen )
I thought that we could now also turn the timer off in the middle of the campain, probably under options somewere... gotta check that out.

**The Stranger** · 02-19-2005, 12:40

well when you sally a city it could end up neither of you can win. so without any timer you'll have to send your men to death, without any good reason.

annother example. i have my hoplites setup btween 2 cliffs. the romans cant get true my defences yet but they outnumber me 1:3 so without the timer i would ended up loosing a glorious victory.

**Red Harvest** · 02-19-2005, 17:17

Originally Posted by Emperor Umeu 1

well when you sally a city it could end up neither of you can win. so without any timer you'll have to send your men to death, without any good reason.

Not true. If you leave the gates, and then go back inside it seems to count as a successful sally. So you get a draw that way. (It has been so in all of my cases there has been some form of combat, not necessarily decisive combat.) But you have to get every single person back within the walls before you end the battle, or else it will be a defeat.

The advantages of not having the timer massively outweigh the disadvantages from having a timer.

**Quietus** · 02-19-2005, 02:42

Originally Posted by Lt Mor

What or how is the time for the fight in the battle field is decided ?

I'm wondering myself. On a huge siege battles (2000+ per side) with Large Stone Walls, I get 23 minutes.

(albeit, the spy opened the gates for me).

While on a 6400+ soldier total siege battle I did in a small settlement with wooden walls, I got ~43 minutes.

**Red Harvest** · 02-19-2005, 03:08

I never could figure it out. Like so much in RTW, it seemed arbitrary if not downright backwards. I did get the impression that it penalized cavalry armies. It looked more like a crutch for atrocious AI rather than a logical system for forcing troops to actually engage.