guys falling through walls?

**StickShift** · July 02, 2006, 10:59 AM

i was beseiging a roman city yesterday with large stone walls the other day in my Alemanni campaign (BI w/ the latest patch) when i ran into this odd glitch.

as my troops exited the seige tower nearly thirty of them fell THROUGH the wall resulting in a painful death upon meeting the ground.

as you can see on the minimap, i had two seige towers going and both had the falling problem (though only the southern most tower had the 'dancing' glitch). strangly enough, all those units that fell to their deaths were healed casualties after the battle. this is extraordinarily irritating because those thirty dead guys might turn the tide of a battle on the walls in a close battle.

i've also had this problem occur once or twice in my Greek Cities campaign in RTW on the 1.3 patch so this problem has existed at least since then. any suggestions?

**edders** · July 02, 2006, 12:03 PM

Sorry, I don't know how to fix this, but it's definately a problem in both this and RTW, particularly with huge unit settings. The only advice I can give is use normal unit settings next time you start a campaign.

**Trajan** · July 02, 2006, 05:20 PM

Thread moved to the Barbarian Invasion: General discussion sub-forum.

**wipeout140** · July 02, 2006, 05:26 PM

http://forums.totalwar.org/vb/showthread.php?t=66401 - How to fix the Siege Tower bug

**Seasoned Alcoholic** · July 02, 2006, 05:41 PM

Yeah, as highlighted in the post above, its all about docking distance from the wall type. You may need to play around until you reach the desired outcome...custom battles is a great way to do this.

**StickShift** · July 02, 2006, 05:48 PM

well, i already tried changing the docking distance of the siege towers to 12.2 from the obvious flawed 12.5. this has had a definate improvement for me (as only one of the towers suffered from the dancing bug, but it seemed to do nothing to with helping my men from not falling to death. if its simply a problem with huge unit scales, i'll just grin and bear it but do you think messing with the docking distance values would help any?

thanks for the attention gentlemen, even if you can't help.

**HappeR** · July 03, 2006, 12:04 AM

LOL yesterday I was playing Greece (RTW) and my peltast unit got killed on the wall. The last guy just ran off

**Virgil** · July 03, 2006, 01:23 AM

yeah that happens when a unit reaches "fight to the death" status. I think it is a bug, but one that fits. It only seems to happen to me when they are surrounded and are definitely going to die. Ive had almost 15 guys run off the ledge to escape death by the sword. Kinda cool actually.....

**StickShift** · July 03, 2006, 12:17 PM

yes, that is very satisfying. one would think they'd run away down the tower's steps rather than taking the short route right?

**guyyug** · July 05, 2006, 12:23 PM

even better when the general does it though, ive also had a berserker go beserk and started spinning a fell off the wall

**technishn08** · July 06, 2006, 01:06 PM

Well, that bug never happened to me when i was assaulting a city. I was playing as the WRE, and all of the horde chosen warriors (goths) fell through the wall. That may have been what gave me a victory...