The Elephant crash bug. Workarounds?

[Reiver]

Is there any way to get past the crash bug I get when fighting the Timurid armies that have the elephant canons?
Is there some cheat I can use to kill the elephant units before the battle?

Unfortunately it's a game killer for me as there's no way i can win an auto calc against them and I haven't had a battle last more than two minutes without crashing. Since I need Jerusalem to win I've gotta fight them. So I either need the patch , a cheat or a way to edit them out the game.

[shadyrome]

ermm i dont have crash when am fighting with timurid who has elephants :S hmm maybe autoresolve?

[Achilleus]

I just autoresolve when I can't play the battle - its a weird bug as it doesn't happen every time with me. I guess I was a bit lucky in my campaign as the Timurids took Jerusalem off me but garrisoned it so lightly it rebelled immediately. They didn't bother to win it back but took off for Antioch instead so I just bumbled in and nicked it back.

[Pre]

I think your best bet is an autoresolve. And if you really hate those elephants an auto win could do you good.

[IZ-Master]

ya open comand window with (~) and when u on the menu to fight or auto resolve tipe auto_win attacker or defender if they attack you . I rly go agains cheat but is a bug and the only inmediate solution is that ^^

[killmore]

I recruited mercenaries - elephants with cannons and another one with people firing guns. I played with them - no crushes at all...

[VaultDweller]

You can edit the export_descr_unit.txt file to prevent them from training them, and you can edit the campaign_script.txt file to prevent them from spawning with the new armies that arrive, but I don't know any way to remove the elephants selectively.

You can use the move_character cheat to zap them off to an unreachable part of the map, but that has to be done with a named entity on the map; you can't selectively pick units out of an army to move.

[Reiver]

You can use the move_character cheat to zap them off to an unreachable part of the map, but that has to be done with a named entity on the map; you can't selectively pick units out of an army to move.

That's what I ended up doing. I had to move 3 of the Timurid Armies to deepest darkest Russia to get them out my way. Hopefully i'll be able to crush the Timurids before they spawn more. I'm glad i did because the battles with the Timurids have been one of the highlights of the game so far.

Auto-reslve is not an option for this. The Elephants rule the auto resolve. I had a full stack of decentish troops parked on the bridge in Antioch region. The Timurids attacked with just 1 Elephant artillery, 1 elephant and two units of Halberdiers. Auto resolving meant a defeat and the loss of 500+ men to 34 Timurid dead. How many armies would I need to throw at them before I killed off the Elephants?

[Sitarus Originalus PM-30+]

many times when i play game against elefants (timurids) i get crashes. Also outoresowing is not an option for me too.... AI had 10 full stuck armies and each had 4 or 5 elefant units in it so the chances were unrealisticly low for my army... even when i played a battle against one army was alsomost imposible to win... autoresolve would mean i would need 100 full stuck troops of myown to defeat those 10...

[flickflame]

I had same elephant problem! i dont want to cheat my way out of this bug or alter the script/ code stuff of the game... Why the hell cant PC games just WORK without the , countless games i've had to deal with problems.