Workaround for Isengard CTD

[Leomar]

Hi,

in my recent campaign it happened for me that I hit the dreaded Isengard bug: For whatever reason, sometimes when Isengard losses their faction leader and has no family members left, a CTD happens.

Of course I did not want to start my whole campaign over again, so I though about a workaround, basically by sending the last Isengard chief into exile on a remote island...

This bug also happens when an AI faction kills the last Isengard chief, so you may want to try this also if your game always crashes during AI turn.

What you need:

• A unit stack containing a general and a siege weapon (for me it was Elrond).
• A diplomat not used this round (for me his name was Antien).

And this are the steps you have to do:

• Open console, enter "toggle_fow" and find the Isengard faction leader. For me it was Yagthak.
• Move your general out of city, position the cursor over him and enter "show_cursorstat". Note the position information, e.g. 186,245. We will need them later...
• Enter "move_character Elrond 141,22" to console. Of course replace Elrond by the name of your general!
• Scroll the map deep to the south and find Elrond on an island near the city of Erelond.
• Enter "auto_win attacker" to console.
• Attack city Erelond and auto-resolve battle. Then move your army out of the conquered city again.
• Enter "move_character Elrond 186,245" (replace 186,245 with the coordinates noted above) to bring your general home.
• Enter "move_character Yagthak 141,20" to console (or Saruman or whomever the faction leader is).
• Move your diplomat out of city, position the cursor over him and enter "show_cursorstat". Note the position information again, e.g. 298,276.
• Enter "move_character Antien 141,21" to console.
• Talk to Yagthak with your diplomat and give them Erelond as a present.
• Enter "move_character Antien 298,276" to move him back.
• Enter "toggle_fow" to enable fog-of-war again.

As Isengard has no ships, their chief will stay on this nice sunny island and hopefully live a long and peaceful live

Hope this helps someone,
Leomar

[StealthFox]

That's a good idea! Hopefully this will work for people that have had their campaign ruined by this bug.

[will_rommel]

Hi, i play vanilla TATW and tried your workaround but unfortunately the last Isengard Family member was inside a town (Lond Daer) so i could not move him around.

I had to delete the campaign.

Do you think it happens with Isengard only? I eliminated Gondor with Harad in my previous campaign and didnt suffer any CTD like this.