Impassible mountains on battle map, bug for feature?

**Phier** · May 23, 2009, 10:21 AM

A couple of times I've had battles where I simply can't get to the other army, there is no path and my men (well orcs) are just stuck with no where to go.

Right now I have a save game with 3000 orcs attacking about 400 elves just west from Beorns halls. All 3000 spawn on top of each other and there is no way to move, nor can the elves advance.

**ISA Gunner** · May 23, 2009, 10:34 AM

I know that its a known bug. I've had it in Kingdoms previously. Dont know whether it can fixed or not though.

**Herr Shimmler** · May 23, 2009, 11:26 AM

Can't You just auto-resolve this?

**Brutis** · May 23, 2009, 12:43 PM

u can autoresolve, if however odds r against u ( yet u would be able 2 win if u where in command), it may be a good idea to use archers to kill as many enemy as possible, then retreat when u run out, continue this then till the odds r good enough for u 2 autoresolve. Of course u could simply move or even try attacking them from a different direction, as this might change the battle map

**King Kong** · May 23, 2009, 12:52 PM

Originally Posted by Phier

A couple of times I've had battles where I simply can't get to the other army, there is no path and my men (well orcs) are just stuck with no where to go.

Right now I have a save game with 3000 orcs attacking about 400 elves just west from Beorns halls. All 3000 spawn on top of each other and there is no way to move, nor can the elves advance.

Sure this is a bug and that can happen at some tiles of the map.
I tried to fix as many unplayable battle maps as possible, but of course, I couldnt' test all tiles.

Would be nice if you would post screenshots (of the campaign map) if you have found an unplayable battle map, so I can fix it.

**Phier** · May 23, 2009, 01:54 PM

Originally Posted by King Kong

Sure this is a bug and that can happen at some tiles of the map.
I tried to fix as many unplayable battle maps as possible, but of course, I couldnt' test all tiles.

Would be nice if you would post screenshots (of the campaign map) if you have found an unplayable battle map, so I can fix it.

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/5527/kongscreen1.jpg
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/4378/kongscreen2.jpg

First is the campaign map, second is the battle map.

Thanks for looking into it.

**SigniferOne** · May 25, 2009, 12:41 AM

How do you fix this problem KK ?

**Muffer Nl** · May 25, 2009, 06:00 AM

Either lower the ground where the orcs are or heighten the ground where the elves are. This levels out the battle map a bit more.

**Skeleton Of The West** · May 25, 2009, 08:42 AM

It happend to me when I played with Isengard and I attacked an army of Rohan outside of helms deep on the mountains around the fortress. I did not want to lose many soldiers so I fought the battle and started stuck. I had to reload the game and do autoresolve. I lost many soldiers that way...

**SigniferOne** · May 25, 2009, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by muffer

Either lower the ground where the orcs are or heighten the ground where the elves are. This levels out the battle map a bit more.

Ya but the ground does not look near as bad on the strat map...

**Achilla** · May 25, 2009, 04:15 PM

May I suggest lowering all battle map terrain by roughly ~30%? Rhun steppes will finally look like steppes and mountain battles will be more easily manageable by the AI that way. I remember reading somewhere it could be done without touch map's campaigh height/look at all.