Invincible routed soldiers!

**Mongke Khan** · August 20, 2009, 02:04 PM

http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/4624/image1fup.jpg

As you can see, there is only 1 ERE pikeman standing (as well as another pikeman in the larger group, if you look at the map) and they both seem to be invincible. I've advanced x6 and waiting 5 minutes and still nothing. My soldiers alongside with my allies are constantly fighting a ghost.

This has happened to me a lot in-game, in every faction i choose to play. Although it doesnt happen every time i am in battle, it happens enough to become annoying and for me to report it.

Just keepin an eye out. I had to exit the battle, and it said i had suffered a "close defeat"

I'll fight that battle once more and it'll probably not happen again, but i dont like starting over every time this happens so please include a fix for this in the next patch

**Mongke Khan** · August 21, 2009, 04:43 AM

It happened once again, same battle same place.... fortunately I had already "won" the battle yet continued to fight through. This time well over 7 pikemen were ghosts. I was able to just exit and still win.

**wudang_clown** · August 21, 2009, 04:47 AM

Did you try to kill them with missiles? I think that's the only way (if you have missiles still

).

**Mongke Khan** · August 22, 2009, 04:36 PM

Half my army were nomadic archers

i try to avoid friendly fire.... 7 pikemen are not worth 100's of my foot soldiers =\ the ally AI does not move out of the way.

**wudang_clown** · August 22, 2009, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Mongke Khan

Half my army were nomadic archers

i try to avoid friendly fire.... 7 pikemen are not worth 100's of my foot soldiers =\ the ally AI does not move out of the way.

Yeah, I know, but you can shoot at them after all enemy units are routed or destroyed, and you have only these 'invincible' ones on the battlefield - then try to shoot at them to kill them.

**Mongke Khan** · August 22, 2009, 10:55 PM

well, problem with that is friendly fire, as ive said. the AI wont move out of the way, so if my troops fire at the invincible pikemen, my allied AI gets hit as well (which is still my army, under cpu control)

not to mention, typically, towards the end of all my battles i no longer have any arrows left. This battle was relatively huge, for a small-scale setting.

**wudang_clown** · August 23, 2009, 04:30 AM

Originally Posted by Mongke Khan

well, problem with that is friendly fire, as ive said. the AI wont move out of the way, so if my troops fire at the invincible pikemen, my allied AI gets hit as well (which is still my army, under cpu control)
I've missed the word "ally".
not to mention, typically, towards the end of all my battles i no longer have any arrows left. This battle was relatively huge, for a small-scale setting.

Yeah, that's the problem at the end of the battle. I remember once, when I was playing SS as Turks, and I had to intercept crusading army, I won, but one of the knight stucked on the slope of the hill near some rock, so my foot troops couldn't reach him. Fortunately, my naffatun had some ammo still, so the problem was solved.