A Great Idea That Didn't Work At All

[bob01]

After invading England my French army was defending while the tattered garrison of London launched a suicidal attack. They should have waited for the reinforcing army to come up but they started in the center of the field, in front of the fort, and were ripped by artillery fire. While they were running I noted the lead element of the reinforcements on the far edge of the map entering. I also noted one of my chasseur a pied rgts chasing after the fleeing garrison. Rather than pull them back to my line I thought about sending them to occupy a wooded area to see how the skirmishing worked. They got about halfway there when I had another idea. I had them scale the walls of the abandoned fort which they did. The plan was to have them fire on the reinforcements marching by.

While they did occupy the eastern bastion they would not fire. No matter what orders I gave them.

I guess that is simply too much to ask of the engine. C'est la vie.

[rob-a-dogg]

Have them move to the edge of the wall and just put them on fire at will, the front rank should fire and reload by themselves while the rest of the gang hang out having a tea party. The plus side is you can strech them out pretty thin if you manually specify where they go by using the click and hold and drag placement thingy ma-jiggy

[alhoon]

Does this work on empty fortresses in the map though?

[bob01]

I tried that. They just stood there.

Curiously, even though they were the closest French unit by a long shot, the British marching by made no attempt to fire on them either. It is as if the game engine can't handle the concept.