Unlimited men on the battlefield

**strife1013** · March 01, 2008, 11:19 AM

Since you can only have a limited number of troops per stack how do you enable it were you can have unlimited men on the battlefield? I can imagine what it would be like with one whole stack of archers and artillary and another of horses and knights, ohh what fun that would be.

**stefano89** · March 01, 2008, 12:02 PM

I don't think that's possible, I think unlimited men on battlefield refers to be able to all armies that join up in the battle to join the battle, even if your system specs doesn't stand such number of men of battlefield

**spanish_emperor** · March 01, 2008, 05:19 PM

insn't the max units on a battle around 20,000 men

**hellfire15** · March 01, 2008, 07:35 PM

you mean in the preferences? that makes it so that you won't get the "reinforcements delayed" message.

**strife1013** · March 01, 2008, 07:40 PM

i mean where if i want i could have a few stacks all fighting at the same time.

**biohaker** · March 02, 2008, 06:41 AM

my PC with 2500 soldiers begins to lag...So...

**Eriol** · March 02, 2008, 07:50 AM

in theory you can have up to 8x20x250=40 000 men on battlefield in a custom battle. That's with 8 factions, 20 units with 250 men each. But that's theory, in practice even the best comps cant handle 20000 men. The engine also might not fully support those kind of numbers.

Unlimited men on battlefield means that you can bring the extra reinforcements into battle even when the game thinks your hardware can't handle those numbers. You can't control the reinforcements yourself. Except for the option that came with kingdoms, but I wouldn't call that "controlling" anything..

**wolfslayer** · March 02, 2008, 08:50 AM

I have unlimited off and get "Reinforcements delayed?" message on the battlemap with a comment about my system specs; it seems to be based on the number of individual skeleton animations my CPU is computing; as men fall and their animations stop, then more units are available (in reinforcements).

Recent siege battle for Satu Mare had a total of 4953 units in 8 stacks, and all eventually entered the battle before the end, but not all at once at the beginning..

I can tell when my CPU is overloaded with animations because I'll get a slight pause every few seconds, regardless of how low I change my video settings or unit detail; I usually just sit tight if I can while the AI stacks fight for a little while, and as they lose men, the pause stops.

**hellfire15** · March 02, 2008, 09:19 AM

yes, that's what people call lag

**King Yngvar** · March 02, 2008, 04:16 PM

All I could think of is that the thread starter must have a kick *** computer!

**strife1013** · March 02, 2008, 04:24 PM

Originally Posted by King Yngvar

All I could think of is that the thread starter must have a kick *** computer!

Well here are my system specs....dont know if its kick a** but it isnt bad if you ask me.

System Specs:
Gateway GM5478 (Upgraded)
Intel Quad Core 2.4Ghz
4GB Ram
BFG (NVidia) 8600GTS OC (256MB) GPU Clock 700Mhz (factory overclocked)
500 GB Hard Drive (7200RPM)
Westinghouse 24" Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD HD Monitor
Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card with 5.1 Speakers
Vista Ultimate
Windows Experience Index 5.6
3DMark06 Score: 6358

**King Yngvar** · March 02, 2008, 05:39 PM

That ram could kick my laptop's ass any day of the week (don't have a stationary).

**Vasquez** · March 02, 2008, 06:28 PM

Originally Posted by strife1013

Well here are my system specs....dont know if its kick a** but it isnt bad if you ask me.

System Specs:
Gateway GM5478 (Upgraded)
Intel Quad Core 2.4Ghz
4GB Ram
BFG (NVidia) 8600GTS OC (256MB) GPU Clock 700Mhz (factory overclocked)
500 GB Hard Drive (7200RPM)
Westinghouse 24" Widescreen Flat-Panel LCD HD Monitor
Creative SB X-Fi XtremeGamer Sound Card with 5.1 Speakers
Vista Ultimate
Windows Experience Index 5.6
3DMark06 Score: 6358

Oh it's bad!