another problem

[candle_86]

I was tring to take carthage nova, they caught my battering ram on fire, so i moved my seige towers in, they got to the wall, but then all my pratorian cohorts would do is run in and out of it, no matter what i tried to do, they refused to actully climb the tower, after about 3 hours of waiting on them to actully no glitch i just restarted the computer so i wouldnt loose the battle, is there a fix for this very annoying bug? I did win the battle but had to fight it in auto battle as my troops refused to climb the seige tower.

[Brusilov]

Give us a hint - what type of walls does the settlement have?

There is a known problem with RTW in that with Epic Walls units may not enter the towers. There is no way around this.

If the garrison sallies from the settlement attack them and follow the routing units through the gateway to take control that way.

Also, if it's available build sap points and use them to bring down the walls.

[candle_86]

well it was large stone walls, ill build sap points from now on, or bring my catapults in. The enemy wouldn't go outside sadly it was my army of 1243 vs there 130 men. I thought i had the battle for obvious reasons.

[Nellup]

The pathfinding in general isn't very good in siege battles, whether inside the city or trying to take the walls.

[candle_86]

well im gonna forget about rome for now, i went and got Medieval 2 today, non steam copy and i dont have those bugs. Any idea if they will release a patch to fix that, or any 3rd party patch to fix it?

[Korlon]

It's a hardcoded bug. There are no fixes and I doubt they'll be releasing a patch to fix it as the latest patch is probably the last one. In the mean time, I suggest you don't upgrade further than stone walls. It's better for you anyhow, it's easier to defend the walls when it isn't so wide and their siege towers don't become like the monsters they are when you have epic walls.

If your units get stuck in the siege tower, there's a way to get them up. Click stop, click the wall. Click stop, click the wall. Repeat until finished. I hate this bug, really, but it actually saved me once. I had only a few units, the enemy had only 2 siege towers and a ram. My units were at the square. My towers torched their ram and one of their towers. In the mean time, their unit got stuck in the tower. My towers eventually killed off almost all of their troops and I finished them off later on.