Reinforcements CTD

[Lanier]

Hey guys, I'm having a pretty serious problem that I would appreciate some help with. I'm roughly 50 turns into an Eriador campaign (no submods) and I'm at a point where I need to fight an enemy army that has a small army of reinforcements immediately adjacent to it on the campaign map. Unfortunately, every time I try to fight the battle, the game crashes as soon as the enemy reinforcements enter the battlefield (roughly 15 seconds after the battle starts). I searched for the problem already and found a couple of possible solutions. One was to delete the desc_geography files and another was to turn off daylights saving time on my computer. I tried both and neither worked. Another possible solution that I saw in my searches was to download the RB battle AI. I really, really don't want to do this due to the complexities of installation and other game stability issues that I saw reported in the RB AI thread. Plus, I mean, I really like the vanilla TATW BAI and I don't think I should have to change it just to fix a CTD bug.

So is there some other way to fix the reinforcements CTD issue? I love TATW but I just can't see myself continuing to play if it means that I'll never be able to play campaign map battles against enemies with reinforcements.

[ElvenKind]

Use auto_win cheat..

[Lanier]

Thats an interesting idea that I hadn't thought of. I'll go ahead and do it for this particular battle and keep a pre-battle save as well. Still, I would rather not have to cheat if these CTD issues are going to be reoccuring. Has anyone else had this problem or does anyone have an idea on something that I can do to fix the CTDs?

[Wizad]

The cause of this crash is the current battle AI, it simply does not know how to deal with reinforcements so it often crashes.

The only solution I have found is changing my battle AI. I currently use MOS which automatically installs the ReallyBadAI submod.
I advice you to switch over to MOS. Sadly this is not savegame compatible (you won't be able to continue your current campaign).

[ElvenKind]

You can upgrade current Battle AI with overwriting your campaign_script file with this one here. And, as Wizad said, this is not savegame compatible, you will have to start a new campaign in order to make these changes work.. ( and, you don`t have to reinstall TATW as I said to that other TWC member in my post there, he already screwed up things so had to reinstall ).

Or, don`t upgrade anything, continue your campaign and avoid battles which include reinforcements on either sides.

[Lanier]

Thanks for the help. I've decided to play MOS, so I guess that resolves this issue.