reinforcement problem

[Yura92]

i have recantly conqured india and any way i tryed the auto battle thing and it coasted me 2000 men so i tried the reguler battle but my other forces were delayed in the 1st time and i was stuck with a small army of 800 facing an army of 2000 when my other forces held about 5000 men the were delayed-_-.on the 2nd time my other forces did arive but they were just standing on the edge of the map and i couldnt use them.
can any 1 explaine to me...WHY?

[MarcusAureliusAntoninus]

The game knows how much your computer can take, and it will purposely delay reinforcements to ensure it doesn't overload your computer. It sounds like that may be the case.

For them just standing there, it sounds like your computer risked the large number, but had a delay. Either you had 20 units already in battle and the reinforcements were waiting for some to die, or they were just waiting. Sometimes, reinforcements will stand just outside the battle and enter one at a time ever couple of minutes. I don't know why they will all join at once some times and join one at a time other times, ask CA.

[Renegen]

Wow, delayed reinforcements are because of computer limits? That sucks!

I believe the reason your units stand there and not enter battle is because if they are on manual the maximum units you can control is 20(or 22, forgot). Anything above they will stand there waiting to have a free slot.

[Yura92]

i douuno about that altho i did set the unit scale to huge and maby my grafics are a bit too high i did get my forces in the end of 1 battle and in another 1 each time one of my units cards we empty one of my other forces filled that hole up but only 1.
think i should set my battle scale to normal?

[Imperator Sulla]

That won't solve the "problem". It actually isn't a problem that can be solved. You have a maximum of 20 unit tiles you can control in battle. Other units in the battlefield area will hold at the edge of the map until one of your unit tiles frees up either by a routing unit leaving the field or a by loosing a complete unit. Only then can an other unit enter the battle field to complement your unit tiles to a full 20. Hope this answers your question

[iamphet]

The other possibility is that total number of people were more than 8000.
You can set UNLIMITED_MEN_ON_BATTLEFIELD in your EB/preferences/preferences.txt to TRUE