archerproblem

[dominion]

When i use my archers when my cities are beiing besieged my archers don't move, a part of them always keep standing and are left behind and another thing is that they don't want to fire, this is not the case with all of them but is rather annoying....can someone tell me, do i have to make some changes somewhere to fix this?

[bɑne]

Smaller unit sizes (helps with pathfinding... ), use other units in the initial battle setup to position archers further back from the battlements if you position them on the wall, mod archers to be able to arc their fire more... which will have your units shoot at the sky and then hit with circus-like accuracy if you mod to far but there is always a downside

[Ishan]

Yes bane is right on the pathfinding thing.
Actually the .world files for the battle buildings are poorly optimized by CA.

Though i remember the battles on Teutonic red castles are always good with plenty of space to move around.

[Spartan90]

By archers you don't mean crossbowmen by any chance?

[dominion]

By archers you don't mean crossbowmen by any chance?

exactly...more exactly the crossbowmilitia

[Spartan90]

exactly...more exactly the crossbowmilitia

Well there's your problem, xbowmen traditionally do not work on walls. They don't arc their shots like regular archers (eg. longbowmen). Generally, only a couple of xbowmen will get off a shot, but not enough to make a difference..

[dominion]

Well there's your problem, xbowmen traditionally do not work on walls. They don't arc their shots like regular archers (eg. longbowmen). Generally, only a couple of xbowmen will get off a shot, but not enough to make a difference..

Thanks, that explains it why i have only the problem with them. And you're right only a few of them take a shot.

[bɑne]

If so the tips work for crossbowmen as well. The last one becomes more important as their arcing is severely limited compared to archers.

[newt]

http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=375398