Allied armies can be commanded?

**pwijnands** · July 23, 2008, 07:15 AM

On my Venitian SS 6.1 campaign my allies, Sicily, were besieging a genoese settlement. I already had an army of mine on the way to capture that same settlement. So I was a bit bummed out that it was already being besieged, but I decided to attack anyway (I had catapults).

On the pre-battle screen I got the option of controlling the Sicilian army in battle, so I checked it. In the battle itself I only had to shoot a hole in the wall and then set the Sicilians to be "aggressive".

The Sicilians managed to take the city on their own while suffering around 30-40% casualties (some caused by catapults

), my troops were safely outside the settlement doing nothing.

After the battle was over I got to keep the settlement. Is this normal or what? It doesn't seem logical at all that the Sicilians would have no trouble with me taking over the settlement after they spent some turns sieging (they had a tower and two rams ready) it.

I gifted the city to them afterwards, to make up for their casualties.

**I-the-gamer** · July 23, 2008, 07:36 AM

Of course it's not logical, but the person who attacks first gets to keep the settlement.

**Wizzerdrix** · July 23, 2008, 09:28 AM

You sound really affectionate about your allies, giving them settlements and all. I don't do that, it's just an AI. Interesting story though and i guess Shāhānshāh is right.

**jsktrogdor** · July 23, 2008, 09:32 PM

Originally Posted by pwijnands

The Sicilians managed to take the city on their own while suffering around 30-40% casualties (some caused by catapults

)

lol, thats great

**Augustus Lucifer** · July 24, 2008, 02:26 AM

It's just a matter of who clicks the actual engage button first, though I think if all your armies had routed you would not have kept it. It's probably a good thing you gifted it to them, the AI is bad enough without being further abused by exploits such as this.

Cheers,
Augustus

**pwijnands** · July 24, 2008, 04:09 AM

The Sicilians have been my allies since turn 2 in this campaign and have sided with me when other people declared war on me and we have (had) several mutual enemies. They've still got plenty of room for expansion in Spain so I'm hoping they won't turn on me soon. I've sort of surrounded them on all sides as I established two crusader-states (in Egypt and Northwest Africa) and my main empire stretches through Greece and Turkey.