Leave my dead troops alone

**Elmo J Muppet** · 09-27-2007, 23:23

I was fighting a battle in my Julii campaign, with my legionnaries in a solid block absorbing fire from a Pontus army, when one battered unit made a break for it and was quickly run down by cavalry. So far, so routine.

The unit was flattened by the cavalry charge, and most of the cavalry then withdrew, but seven or eight clustered round one of the dead Romans and started stabbing and hacking at him. When they showed no sign of stopping I zoomed in closer. Apparently they were attacking a unit of 'Hastati (0) Dead'. I'll bet he was- he's been hit repeatedly with a number of swords for about 30 seconds. Doesn't really explain why it was happening though. This went on for a minute or two until I got angry with the computer and chased the cavalry off. The mysterious 'dead' unit didn't appear any more.

Obviously it wasn't a major problem, but I thought it was a bit unusual. It was quite atmospheric though- it's been a long, unpleasant war with Pontus and it looked like they were venting some of their anger on that soldier.

Has anything like this happened to anyone else?

**Elmo J Muppet** · 09-27-2007, 23:40

Oops. I wrote this post halfway through the battle. When I resumed it, I managed to find the dead unit again, and learned that they were feeling 'unhappy over taking (becoming?) casualties'. They weren't attacked again, though.

**SSJVegetaTrunks** · 09-28-2007, 00:36

XD

Never happened to me before.

**Charge** · 09-28-2007, 01:12

I had kind of that with war dogs...

**Seamus Fermanagh** · 09-28-2007, 01:43

Was it a night battle? If so, apparently the Pontics weren't using wooden stakes......

**ciprianrusu** · 09-28-2007, 09:13

I had a similar problems with ghostly wardogs. I was Brutii, and was fighting in the civil war whit Julii. I whipped out one of my enemies wardog unit, but, when close to the end of the battle, one of my unit of Equites was chasing down enemies routing units, out of nowhere, appeared this unit of ghost wardogs (0 units, translucid dogs), and started to mown down on my horses. I couldn't kill them either, because they were down to 0 troops.

.Strange day that was. And my general wasn't even drunk then.

**Omanes Alexandrapolites** · 09-28-2007, 16:40

Yep I've experienced it. It is a rather infrequently occurring bug though, so that's why it probably has gone undetected so far - it only ever happened to me once.

**Elmo J Muppet** · 09-28-2007, 19:19

I guessed it was probably something like that. Quite relieved it wasn't just a case of my attempts at modding messing up the game.

Vengeful ghost dogs, though... That is a bit weird. Never had anything supernatural happen on the battlefield myself.

**Zain** · 09-29-2007, 03:14

Haha, bugs are funny.

I like the one when one of your units is way away from the rest of his fellow comrads, fighting invisible foes. Then collapses (seemingly from exhaustion) and the soldier count in your unit card decreases.

Quite a phenomenon if you ask me.

**gummybear00** · 09-29-2007, 03:16

It's a bug when a unit with 0 men remaining isn't removed from the game. Usually if a unit is wiped out, you hover over it and it should show nothing. Sometimes, the unit with 0 men still shows their info card when you hover over their location.

This has happened to me several times. One time it caused a bug that made my general's unit unable to move even though the enemy archer unit was all dead.

**Ludens** · 09-29-2007, 10:01

When playing EB I quite regularly note that some of my troops are occupied fighting invisible enemies of eliminated/routed enemy units. It is more annoying than dangerous though, since the ghost soldiers never kill anything. However, I haven't seen my own men turn ghosts yet.

**Charge** · 09-29-2007, 10:38

O, invisible enemies... It was really irritational when I test phalanxes 1v1. Hoplites dispersed on a whole map...

**Severous** · 09-29-2007, 17:10

Yes ive seen this effect many times.

Sometimes its hard to make your men move away from the dead enemy.

The undead has a lasting effect. Move troops here later in the battle and the undead will still be there. Soldiers will stop to fight it.

**Dexter** · 10-01-2007, 11:38

The invisible - half faded, ghost - dogs can be a blessing .. if the pouches where yours ... Great general Quintus Julius unleashed from his thoughts the dogs of war to hunt down the last gaulish targs (maybe there are klingon wardogs ???) .. needles to say they did. A good day watching spirits killing your enemy while the rest of the army enjoys the show.

To bad it only happened 1 x in 2 years .. LoL
As for invisible enemy it happened when some of the unit where trapped behind the city wall, so i had to search for them, but they were there .. this happened 2 x and only when assaulting a city.