Impossible to conquer?

[Nevins]

Hey all I am playing the Britannia campaign as the Scots and one of the "Victory" cities is Castle Town. I would live to take it, but I think this pic illustrates my problem:

I can only land troops in the top right section behind the mountain, but they are pinned in by the terrain and unable to move

I have tried to use the console to kill off all of the norwegian family members but it did not work. This is driving me insane because its not that I cant beat them in battle, its that I cant even fight them. Any help would be much appreciated

P.S. The welsh are my allies

[Lost Crusader]

Can you land near the Welsh army southwest of Castle Town? If you can, do it and attack the Welsh. Then fight your way through to the settlement.

[CtrlAltDe1337]

Just wait for the Welsh and Norse to fight it out?

[Nevins]

Yeah I can only land in the behind the mountain and am unable to attack any army from there. And the Norse/welsh have been like that for around 100 turns now

[Captain Spanky]

What about diplomacy? Bribe your way to Castle Town!

[Shadowcry]

Use your spies and a night fighter General to make a sneak attack!

[SSJPabs]

If you kill the Welsh faction, some of their stacks should disappear.

[Lost Crusader]

It's a long shot and it probably won't work, but... approach to one of the enemy's armies with your fleet (with your army aboard), select all units of your army, and attack. Maybe it is possible to launch an attack from the fleet...

EDIT: I've just tested this idea, and it works! I didn't know, since I never tried something as crazy as this. First medieval amphibious landing

Not exactly the same situation as yours, but it's close enough

[SSJPabs]

Hey, did you get the neat ships in the background of your battle scene on the beach? If there's ever a place for it, that would be it.

[Lost Crusader]

Hey, did you get the neat ships in the background of your battle scene on the beach? If there's ever a place for it, that would be it.

No, there were no ships in sight. But they should have been there, right :hmmm:
I think I can remember seeing some ships during the battle once or twice.

[Selifator]

Maybe you had the flying ship bug?

[J@mes]

you could try the move character cheat and make a space...

[Duke_of_Bavaria]

wow man that's ****ed up. If nothing else works, cheat. Chek the name of some Welsh army and then hover your cursor over some place in Walse.
Bring up your console by hitting "Ö", not sure which key it is on English keyboards.
Anyway, then write cursor_stat
then type
move_unit "[name of the dude in charge]" xx,xx (the cords you got from typing cursor_stat)
ex. move_unit "Captain Welshman" 14,48

At least then you can land a reasonable army. I mean it's cheating but so is what they are doing, it's just gay man.. Just gay.

[Nevins]

Thanks Bavaria I'll try that. I am just so pissed that a faction with 1 settlement can support all those stacks, and those stacks are all gotland footmen, serpentines and feudal knights............ugh

And any sort of bribe/ diplomacy wont work as i cant land a diplomat to negotiate

[Faris ad Din]

Islands are such a huge source of pain in any game. You should check out http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=128345 ("Palma.. holiday destination of the middle-ages") and http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=124998 ("Using armies to crowd out and kill enemy agents."). In the first thread someone apparently had armies from four separate factions piled up on this island, unable to move around each other due to Zone of Control issues... count in a pirate fleet for 5? In the second I conquered an island with four Venetian cardinals, and there was no way to move them, and it would be unlikely for the AI to have the intelligence to send a fleet to move them. In fact, does the AI EVER remove agents (or armies?) when they send them to islands? Island missions for computer-controlled agents must be equivalent to banishment! I just conquered Crete with six Byzantine priests and I had to show_cursorstat / move_character to get them out.

The AI needs a fix where if they are able to do naval invasions, they should continue to support their overseas armies and agents. I think there's a disjunction between naval and land UI, seriously. The navy only agrees to drop off armies/agents, while human players use fleets to move armies around whenever needed.

[Lost Crusader]

Thanks Bavaria I'll try that. I am just so pissed that a faction with 1 settlement can support all those stacks, and those stacks are all gotland footmen, serpentines and feudal knights............ugh

And any sort of bribe/ diplomacy wont work as i cant land a diplomat to negotiate

There's no need to cheat when you have a solution 5 posts above (#8)

[Nevins]

It wasnt working for me for some reason

[Lost Crusader]

It wasnt working for me for some reason

I'm sorry to hear that. I don't understand why it doesn't work for you. Did you select all army units aboard your fleet, and then attack?

[trench]

It wasnt working for me for some reason

Then try Paratroopers.

[Nevins]

yeah it gives me a red X.