Sieges

[Titus Protius]

hi all,
im having an annoying problem that sometimes when im undersiege i can not move any men onto the walls after i have deployed and started the battle. they go to the stairs and then stop infront of stairs or run around in circles. it doesnt happen all the time just a random thing and is very annoying.
im using the Romans on unified rome and so far this has only happened when im fighting the Germans, Gauls and the greeks.
Thanks

[DARTH VADER]

This is a pathfinding issue which could be resolved if you just click to the destination than drag-click to shape the destination.

I do not know if this is an issue caused by my formation modding or it is a CA default.
Sometimes in order to fix things you have to deteriorate some secondary indirectly. I just do not know why this happens.

Anyhow pls tell me if this helped.

[Titus Protius]

should have added this but i did drag to shape the unit but still they ran around. i tried with roman archers to get them on the walls but that wasnt happening and then triarii. they did eventually get on the wall but this was after 10 mins. but like i said it doesnt happen much so its not a big problem. ill just wait for the enemy to get off the wall then sort them out.

[Tankbuster]

When placing multiple units on walls, they all start to freak out
Happened to me all the time ... Annoying :S

[DARTH VADER]

I repeat...do NOT drag and drop but only click and point to the destination and when they arrive, shape them..it is the only way.

[Titus Protius]

thats what im saying what ever way i tried to get men on the wall they wouldnt. its like for the whole battle the men have become amazingly dumb. ive had RTW since bout 3 months after release so i no different ways. i checked to see if it was certain towers or wether its when men get onto the wallls but for the whole battle the only men i had to defend the walls were the men that were already up there.
dont worry bout it only time its a problem is if i lose the city but hasnt happened, came close but not yet.
thanks for the fast responses anyway.

[Sleepysmoo]

Men stopping in front of the siege tower is a ca bug that has never been fixed. (nor will it now because of mtw2 coming out).
It seems to be a pathfinding issue, but it's easily fixed by doing what darth vader says. You can force your men onto the walls if you have enough patience.
The real problem is when the computer sieges you. They have the same problem, and the computer isn't smart enough to force its men on the walls, which can potentially break sieges.
Myself and florin80 made a fix to this bug by making a small mod. It used to be on the rome realism site, but when the forums went down it was never reposted.

If anyone is interested in this fix, I'll post it. It basically changes the graphics of the large stone wall, where is where this bug happens, to the graphics of the regular stone wall. This is because the bug involves the middle siege tower itself.
Your men seem to have trouble getting into the tower. By enacting this fix, the tower used is the small tower, and the middle one isn't used.
The epic walls are fixed too; by changing the width of the siege tower entrance, your men are easily able to climb onto the walls.
This is all in the mod.

This is a bug though. If you simply have trouble getting onto the wall, then you can simply keep clicking on that wall. Cheers