Worst CTD moments ever.

[Turtle Hammer]

I'm sure we've all had one, that sweet moment of victory snatched away by some unknown error. It just happened to me. After reading about how to defeat chariots in another thread I decided to do a Britania campaign, as last time I tried I was pretty useless at handling my economy and quickly tanked.

To my suprise, I was making about 5k a turn, had conquered the French territories of Gaul then made peace with them, had several alliances, no wars, and even ended up allied with Gaul.

This was great.

This was dull.

On seeing that SPQR managed to somehow declare war on ALL of my allies, I thought a nice full stack should pay them a visit. Good general, 8 light chariots, a good mix of infantry, and some dogs to bite anyone who runs away. After being chased off by a full stack, I sieged Rome a second time from the Tiber river crossing.

The chariots flanked the ford, and my infantry tore them to pieces (something to do with all those white banners?) At this point, I should mention that the garrison of Rome was a reinforcement and on that nice "win or die" condition for the battle. I could smell the colliseums and aquaducts practically. I had the still beating heart of the Roman empire gripped in my hand.

And just as the last banner turned white it crashes.

CTD.

Seriously. What is that? Some kind of CA joke that gamers don't get? 'cos I'm not laughing.

So, when were you last "robbed" by the evils of CTDs?

[MADMAN066]

Ha! Unlucky, my accursed enemy does not stalk me alone I see lol.

I was playing as the greeks, had taken all of italy save some Julii remnants, Finnally decided to take Rome.

My army of 8 units of armoured hoplites, no gerenal and some ballistas (no more troops to spare) went against the whole god dammed veted force of the Senate, after a goiod 10 minutes, I had killed all thier forces, on like you were, on a "Win or loose ya city" type battle. Anyway i came out of the battle with all my units less then 25 men, to be greeted by a glimpse of my men going into Rome followed by a black screen, then my dispicable desktop. I was in disbelief....lol

I didnt want to go through that nerve-wrecking experiance again, and GOOD NEWS!! I didnt. The game automatically crashes whenever I start a battle (on the campaign) with the senate. So the entirely beautiful grey canvas smothering the med is ruined by a fecking purple dot.

To this day I live in fear that the Senate will come out of their hole, bringing armaggedon upon the world with them..... lol

[gaunty14]

theres always "auto-win attacker", and it isn't cheating persay as you already had a battle with them

or did you mean when you enter the battle screen on the campaign map rather than actually loading, if so nevermind ^-^

[MADMAN066]

Thanks for the advice but the game crashes as soon as the battle screen giving the armies details and odds comes on.

[Turtle Hammer]

I however will try it, as it only CTD'd me after I'd won. And the second time I tried too.

[Arbitrary Crusader]

What "Wirst" is this you speak of?
Anyhoo, Had a kickass battle, with me:Roman vs AI Gaul. I had about 1,300 vs 3,000 men, short story, I had a heroic battle, after I click the ok button, it crash.

[Turtle Hammer]

What "Wirst" is this you speak of?
Anyhoo, Had a kickass battle, with me:Roman vs AI Gaul. I had about 1,300 vs 3,000 men, short story, I had a heroic battle, after I click the ok button, it crash.

This CTD was so bad it wasn't just worse, it was wirse? I swear that's like worse, but.... worser?



Yeah, I made a typo. Dammit...

[Arbitrary Crusader]

This CTD was so bad it wasn't just worse, it was wirse? I swear that's like worse, but.... worser?



Yeah, I made a typo. Dammit...

Quite alright, we all make mistake.

[|Sith| Max]

The worst CTD i had was related to a bug that affects me RTW. Apparently it crashes after any 3v3 for an unknown reason that i should consult the techies about.

Me and two Sith recruits were playing some high ranking hell members, and we had just crushed two of them after one very apocalyptic minute of micro intensive MP, after which we surrounded the third one. He admitted defeat and i was looking forward to saving a replay so i would remember the battle. thats when my 3v3 CTD problem began. Nuff said.

[Titus Maximius Thongus]

after winning a 30min battle in RS 1.6 where one of my elite legions was attacked by over 9000!!!! (actually 10,000) Gauls.

[Stu.]

After I get CTDs I just lose the will to play the game, its really depressing :/

[Punic Hoplite]

Playing as Rome in RS, I went North to attack the rebel/free settlements up in Northern Italy, but the way my army stopped was in perfect position for almost every stack of rebels to attack me at once. And when it was their turn, they all attacked. 6 stacks of Rebel Barbarian troops vs my 1 (quite experienced) legion.

I defeated the first 4 with little problem (I killed their generals early on) and by the time the last two reached me, my troops were fresh, while theirs were merely winded/warmed up. I managed to mostly route the first army, while keeping the second one at bay, then turned my attention towards the second army. I finally won, routing all 6 armies, and losing (according to the little counter) 86% of my forces. I clicked OK to get to the campaign, and CTD.

I was so mad I uninstalled RTW, then reinstalled it to play vanilla.

[VersionLangley]

I play Egypt and conquered all of seleucid. Load the save game, crashed. load the save game 8 more time, crashed.
Then i promised to try the very last time otherwise i'll give up on 2 month worth of work, as well as never play the campaign again.

...it crashed

[Chris Death]

I've read in another thread (dunno which one tbh) that those situations where you attack an army beside
a settlement (where the garrison comes as reinforcement with the win or die) and probably another reinforcement
army aswell, chances are very high to get a CTD once the [occupy/enslave/exterminate] screen appears and you
click one of them (no matter which one).

No real solution for this other than not to attack them. Also if you are going to siege a settlement where you didn't
scout the surrounding area enough - simply keep a savegame beside where you won't get into a situation that you
are getting attacked during the siege.

~S~ CD

[Roy974]

In vanilla 1.5 i had taken the Gaul's, Brit's, Germans and Spain out. I was close to wipping out Dacia, i had moved east and taken many Greek's settlemets and began taking Egyption towns too. I can't remember how many towns i owned but the map was almost red, blue and green with myself (Julii) spread out. Scipii owning all of the Carthage settlemets leaving them with 1 single town left. They owned 2 towns they took from Spain and was pushing east along the botton crushing all the Egyption amries that stood in there way. The Brutii (my biggest problem faction) Playing as the Romans you end up having to push forward hard and expand fast otherwise the other Roman factions will take out the other factions and seround you leaving you with fewer and fewer settlements to capture.

That was the problem i had with the Brutii, i wanted to spread east taking Dacia, Pontus and work my way donw into Macedonian lands but the Brutii closed the door as they pushed up north and started coming west. At that point i thourght fine, i sat back building some money up and slowly expanding my forces out on the field finally after many turns i had got enough money to fight without worrying about how to fund the army. I had saved about 400k, this would be the first time i had ever turn my back on the Romans so i wasn't taking any chances. I spread my forces out to take strategical settlements where i hopped to spread out from. The main target was the Senate or more to the point Rome, i hit the twn after taking some legions out (no problems). I hit the Rome and began my seige, i left the seige in place for about 3 turns before finally striking. The battle loaded and i organised my units into the formattion, the laddermen hit the walls and i watched as the first blows was been delt by each other, it seemed to take forever for those gaurds on the walls to be killed, they was fighting to the death which i had been in many of those kind of battles where the enemy on walls will not route and fight to the death and have never had any problems. (to be fair i wasn't even thinking what if, i was focused on my task to capture Rome). Finally the walls was mine, i ordered 1 unit to capture the main gate since i don't use rams (i only use laddermen) when the walls was captured i rushed my guy's inside the town setting up a small defensive formattion while i organised everyone. I then started heading for the town centre and was almost close to killing the last few SPQR troops when the i had a CTD.

I hadn't saved for a while (i know a stupid mistake) i was in the moment, fully focussed on taking Rome, i saved just before capturing the last few towns i had captured in a move to stop Brutii from expanding further west. So i had lost a lot really however when i attacked Rome again the game crashed, so i used auto fight and the game crashed after the resaults was shown when i hit ok. I tried again and it still happened, at that point i figured the campaign was bugged or at least SPQR was so i began purchasing settlements off the other Roman factions and when i had got enough of a hold i striked only to have the game crash on me when i hit ok on the resaults screen. I scrapped the save and uninstalled the game and reinstalled it thinking that would fix it, i haven't had that problem since and have hit Rome twice in obviously 2 seperate campaigns, 1 with Julii and another with Macedon and i had no problem with watching the battle or using auto fight.

I can only say the worse CTD for me is when it effects the whole campaign, any other can be worked around, but when going for global dominance a CTD that holds you back from taking a faction or factions out is very annoying.