While attacking Athens last night. I sent my Arches forward after my sappers blew the wall down. Now Archers in RTW and BI fire over walls. The Createan. Not sure on spelling. Did not fire over the wall. But went in through the hole in the wall. I had to pull them back. Because they where in hand to hand combat with a Athen Army.

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Creatine supliments!?!

Archers won't shot over stone walls if their target is too close to the wall (thus they have no angle). In vanilla the same ocures.

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They might shoot over the wall, if both units stand next to it.
It's an angle problem. Not a bug, but reasonably realistic ballistic model

McHrozni

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Target was not close to the wall. Plus the Archers never ran away. They all died. But I took Athens.

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It's a lot harder for archers to fire over stone walls nowadays. I have never succeeded myself, not that I've met many stone walls, mind you. I always found that I needed to assault and gain control of the walls intact before either posting my archers on top of it, or simply running a unit around the walls, taking the towers, and luring the enemy to the wall area where they could get whittled down by tower fire.

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Playing BI on my desktop. My archers can fire over walls. They should go over any wall. My main beef was that the dumb archers did not move out of the way. Archers will always flee when any Army gets to close to them. These guys didn't move.

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Maybe you disabled their skirmish mode? I used to do that automatically when I first started playing because I didn't understand why they were running all over the place, but I've found it quite useful in some cases in helping to minimise losses..

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