Is my game broken?

[xzyx]

Hi there! I'm not really sure if this is a bug, if my game is broken due to the sub mods I use or whatever, but something really strange happened and I got so pissed off I reinstalled RTW.

I was playing portugal, had just driven back the moors and was going foward to fighting spain. So far, so good, their capital besieged. I had some mounted and unmounted knights, a couple crossbows, a trebuchet and a mangonel. Proceeding to the siege, I put down a wall section, kill the few militias behind it and position crossbows on the wall. Then I send 1 swordsmen battalion to take the gate. The enemy somehow outhandles me and sends some swordsmen to hold the gate. While they are holding, I move in my siege weapons so I can shoow the bodyguards inside the town. In the process I notice the very same tower my crossbowmen are guarding is actually shooting them! Then it shoots some ballistas missiles and destroys my siege weapons. The bodyguards make a suicide charge right into my swordsmen. (They would kill lots of those, and be eventually overpowered).

So, summarizing: the 15 soldiers left at the gate managed to use their magic remote control to put the entire city's defenses against me, even tough I actually hold the rest of the city, and the 10 bodyguards manage to kill about 1 third of my infantry before dying. And they used a remote control to ballista my own catapults.

Is it supposed to be like this? BTW, sorry if wrong forum.

[delra]

I'm not sure what you're playing but in M2TW you can't make enemy's city towers shoot at own soldiers even if you take over that particular part of the wall. You could do that in RTW and that might be the source of your confusion.

[eternalsteelfan]

He's complaining about the way towers are "magically" or "remotely" manned by nearby units, he was on the offensive it seems though I can see how you were confused by the "crossbowmen guarding" bit he mentioned. I take it he's also pissed about the strength of BG units.

[Sonny WiFiHr]

He's complaining about the way towers are "magically" or "remotely" manned by nearby units, he was on the offensive it seems though I can see how you were confused by the "crossbowmen guarding" bit he mentioned. I take it he's also pissed about the strength of BG units.

If enemy unit is close to tower (dont know radius) tower will shoot at you. You have to push(kill) defending inf.

[Slime]

I suppose the tower shooting mechanics are at least partly hardcoded since I haven't seen anyone mod them to stop shooting if the attacking infantry are currently inside the tower while the defenders can make it shoot by standing nearby even if there's no way any archers/ballista crew would be left alive in a real life situation.

It does make castle attacking one hell of a challenge though (fortress and up), like it really was back then.

Without siege artillery, that is!