Destroys Mongols = "M2 is not responding"

**Silverheart** · October 09, 2012, 10:35 AM

Hello.
So in my recent Russian campaign, I´m in the middle of launching a glorius reclaiming of Kiev from the Mongols. However, the Mongols have their last three family members all stationed in the city.
Of course, they die in the battle, but it´s what happens after the battle that my query concerns.
You see, after battle is over and I have decided what to do with the city and all the prisoners, the Mongols no longer have any settlements or family members left and consequently gets destroyed - they all turn rebel, and then, for some reason, the game just freezes.
A quick ctrl+alt+del check-up reveals that the program is not responding, and no amount of waiting does anything.
This has happened three times now (i have saved&reloaded the game after each time), and I have begun trying to move my armies around so as to somehow make their family members come out.
My computer is only a few months old, and pretty good for a laptop, so I hardly think it´s a problem with that - the fact that this hasn´t happened before also speaks in favor of that.

So does anyone what is going on here? Is it simply my computer getting clogged up after months of usage, or could there be something else?
Am I simply going to have to wait/assassinate the Mongols out, or is there something I can do to make the game less likely to freeze up like this?

**irishron** · October 09, 2012, 11:08 AM

Are you sure they are not going back to horde?
I've had Mongols in my mod go back to horde and take over ten minutes making horde units.
I saw the same thing in mine and checked processes. kingdoms.exe using over a gig of ram at the same time.

**Silverheart** · October 09, 2012, 02:40 PM

They appear to be going back to horde, but they turn into rebels at the same time.
That´s when the game freezes.
I waited almost an hour the first time it happened, but nothing happened.

**irishron** · October 09, 2012, 03:03 PM

Vanilla? Mod?

**Silverheart** · October 09, 2012, 03:57 PM

It´s in regular vanilla.
I have modded time to move forward at 2.00 and to make Papal states playable, but I don´t think that should affect this.

**irishron** · October 09, 2012, 05:13 PM

I didn't play vanilla enoug to find out how bugged it really is. In fact, they showed up but I never fought them.
It could be a bug in the game. A hell of a way for a campaign to end, though.
i have been playing mods since General Sun came out with his quicky at the .Org about two months after Medieval2 was released.

**Silverheart** · October 09, 2012, 05:27 PM

I guess I´ll have to find some other way to defeat them, then...

**irishron** · October 09, 2012, 05:34 PM

You have them under siege. Have you tried starving them out or assaulting them? Possibly time to try the other option.
Another option would be to lift the siege with an army waiting outside and either they will leave or die peaceably in their beds.

**Silverheart** · October 09, 2012, 06:03 PM

I don´t have them under siege, actually.
The situation is such, that I have several armies strong enough to sweep in and take the city, but not strong enough to maintain a siege and deal with all the other armies the Mongols have lurking about. So every time I attack, it´s just one of these armies that swoops in and immediately assaults.
I guess I better just unify my armies into a horde of my own and take out the mongolian field armies first, and then starve the last of them out in the city or something...