Theory on the problem with reinforcements.

**django333** · April 21, 2009, 03:33 PM

All credit goes to Modestus for this theory as he brought it up in this thread:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=252448
I just thought it deserved it's on thread.

If you notice when you attack a city the city appears behind your army on the battle map with the enemy army appearing in front of you instead of the other way around. Perhaps this is why reinforcements, whether they be yours or the enemies, always seem to enter the field from the opposite direction that they should (enemy reinforcements always appear behind your army instead of behind their army). If this is the case then fixing the reinforcement issue should be really easy. What do you guys think?

**VINDIC** · April 21, 2009, 04:39 PM

There's a logic in what you said...hope that to fix the issue it's really easy as you think...

**Langer Kerl** · April 21, 2009, 04:46 PM

I already mentioned in another thread that it's predictable where reinforcements come from - in my battles, they always came from the same direction they were on the campaign map - troops north of my position came from the north, and so on (assuming that north is always upwards on the minimap). The problem was that my and the enemy's armies positions were not correct according to campaign map placement.

But it seems to get weirder the more reinforcements enter the battlefield.

**nostradamouse** · April 21, 2009, 04:44 PM

yea, it's just inverted, the fix is not gigantic and they've already fixed it in the upcomming patch (or so they say)

**django333** · April 21, 2009, 04:46 PM

Seems I'm a little late perhaps. Can someone please link the patch notes mentioning this? I didn't see anything in the patch update thread.

**VINDIC** · April 21, 2009, 04:47 PM

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...no hope...

**nostradamouse** · April 21, 2009, 05:17 PM

April 17th Spoiler Alert, click show to read:
Quote:
Today we addressed several savegame issues, and also tweaked some of the unit balancing.
We've also corrected the bug whereby reinforcements entered the battlefield from the wrong direction.

There's ongoing work on the major gameplay upgrade which incorporates all of these updates and many, many more.

Apologies for the short update today, just wanted to give you a quick overview of major issues, back to the grindstone!

Kind regards,
Kieran

P.S: Just as a reminder, although there will be work going on over the weekend, there likely won't be another update until Monday.