Impossible Battle Map

**Commander5xl** · January 30, 2009, 08:07 AM

Hi all, I was wondering if this ever happened to you?

I was fighting the French as the Moors at the tip of the Iberian peninsula and the battle loads I'm favored to win by alot, it was me a full stack (was on my way to attack their city) against about 200 of their reinforcements, battle loads I look at the layout of the Map and their is this huge mountain right in front of me where the French will spawn, I was thinking okay no big, I've battled against the Spanish early on a similar map and thy went down this narrow path to attack me so my missile and artillery units just went nuts blowing them away. Unfortunatly this map is a little different, after half the battle time limit ticks away, I start moving my men all teh way around the mountain, AND THEIR IS NO WAY UP IT. well correction their is.... but its out of the playing area, I have to flee for me to get up the mountain, I moved all over the place with both infantry and caalry and nothing could get up it, I even put it on AI assistance to see if they could find a path, but they couldnt either, The mountain was in the corner of the battle field too and their was the back way up it but it was out of the playing area.

I did have screenies or thought i did but unfortunatly my method of taking them didnt seem to work.. .how do you take screenies in M2:TW cause print sreen didnt work :S

**axnsan** · January 30, 2009, 08:16 AM

it happend to me as welll - verry frustrating
and for the screenshots you press print screen, then
a) open paint, click paste and save
b) download irfanview (link), run it, click open and go to M2TW folder/tgas and open the picture, than save as .bmp or .jpeg

then (for both a and b) go to imageshack and upload your picture, and copy-paste the link you get here

**Pink Beard** · January 30, 2009, 08:20 AM

or
c) download fraps

I had the same thing u described there. But I had Irish skirmishers.
I started on top of the mountain and the enemy below it.
When I ordered my skirmishers to harass the enemy they ran down, threw their javelins and then suddenly they were stuck.
They could only run down (to the enemy) but not up.... How stupid lol.
So I could only move my army down and there was no way of flanking the enemy. Needless to say my skirmishers got butchered...

**axnsan** · January 30, 2009, 08:30 AM

Originally Posted by axnsan

download irfanview (link), run it, click open and go to M2TW folder/tgas and open the picture, than save as .bmp or .jpeg
then go to imageshack and upload your picture, and copy-paste the link you get here

or try this - it works for multiple screenies too

also link for fraps

**Commander5xl** · January 30, 2009, 08:25 AM

lol at least you got their, if i could have started at top it would have been better, my archers would have been able to fire on them and my reinforcements spawned at the bottom, but i couldn't even get near them to fire or engage I lost by default, and what about multiple screenies? because the past and screenshot only works for 1, so in a battle how do you take multiple screenies?

**Pink Beard** · January 30, 2009, 08:28 AM

Originally Posted by Commander5xl

lol at least you got their, if i could have started at top it would have been better, my archers would have been able to fire on them and my reinforcements spawned at the bottom, but i couldn't even get near them to fire or engage I lost by default, and what about multiple screenies? because the past and screenshot only works for 1, so in a battle how do you take multiple screenies?

Use fraps! Then u only have to press F10 (or any pre-definied button) to make a screenie. It will then automatically be stored in the folder you want.

**Commander5xl** · January 30, 2009, 08:29 AM

ooh okay, Link?

**Pink Beard** · January 30, 2009, 08:31 AM

http://www.fraps.com/download.php

(just press the yellow text)

**Conquistatore** · January 30, 2009, 09:25 AM

I have been in some poorly designed battlefields aswell. Steep cliffs with only a narrow or no way up are not uncommon in the rocky areas. It really is quite frustrating, especially if the enemy is on the top of the hill.. even if you manage to find a way up there you will be crushed because they have such an advantage!

**Skyline Pete** · January 30, 2009, 07:03 PM

It's things like this that I'm hoping are missing in Empire.

**Spartaaaa** · January 30, 2009, 09:10 PM

Its happened two me too but my catupult was in range of the enemy crowsbows and killed a few

**Viking Prince** · January 31, 2009, 02:10 AM

Out of curiosity -- what verion of the game and patches are you using? I am not certain, but I think one of the patches was supposed to solve the mountain bug.

**Conquistatore** · January 31, 2009, 06:20 AM

I think one of the patches did solve a lot of the terrain issues but these still occur from time to time. Using the latest version 1.03 or 1.05 depending.

**Commander5xl** · January 31, 2009, 09:18 AM

never installed any patches, haven't even played multiplayer yet, its Vanilla right out of the box, got it just after christmas so i dont think any patches are on that

**Conquistatore** · January 31, 2009, 09:38 AM

Are you playing the Gold Edition or just regular MTW2 stand alone?

**Skyline Pete** · January 31, 2009, 06:35 PM

Hot diggity damn good sir, patch it now!

**Dewy** · January 31, 2009, 07:03 PM

why get fraps, Xfire is so much better and free

**pileyourbodies** · January 31, 2009, 08:21 PM

Happens all the time in spain, if you're fighting in that area or any mountian really I suggest you save before every fight

**Pink Beard** · February 01, 2009, 03:28 AM

Originally Posted by Dewy

why get fraps, Xfire is so much better and free

well fraps is free too... atleast if ur not registering (u don't need to register to use it to make screenshots)

@pileyourbodies
Have you ever fought in the Scottish highlands? Oh god... the nightmares...

**Soulghast** · February 01, 2009, 04:41 AM

Quite a funny(and perhaps frustrating) situation, which has fortunately never occurred to me. I think you mentioned battle time limit somewhere. Turn it off. It only causes trouble. Now, on your issue, download all patches, and hope it doesn't happen again. It appears it isn't such a common problem so I wouldn't worry about it much.