Help, my general is besieged

**sentinel37** · February 21, 2007, 04:55 PM

Hello all. I have finally bought "RTW: Gold" and boy ... what an experience so far! Except for the graphic, I put it higher than M2:TW.

Anyway, here's my problem. Hopefully this isn't redundant. I'm playing full campaign as Sciprii and I'm the second most powerful fraction, second to Pontus. It is currently 210BC.

My faction heir general has just captured a settlement near Egypt/Alexandria (forgot the name), which is controlled by Pontus (originally controlled by Numaria). There are only wooden walls here, so after capturing it, I parked my general in the city to retrain some lost units. On the very next turn, a full stack Pontus army with mostly silver chevron warriors/chariots and whatnot seige my newly captured settlement!

I know that I cannot survive since I'm vastly outnumbered and I have overestimated Pontus (bad on my part). I wanted to at least sneak my favored General out and have him fight another day, but I can't. Here's the question.

1) Is there any way to rescue my general?! As you know, the area of Northern Africa is very sparse, so it will take turns for another army to come.

2) I took the chance and sally forth to take on the sieging army before they can make the seige equipments. The problem is the that I have wooden walls with some arrow towers around the wall, but nothing came out when the enemy comes near!!! I took some light calvary to lure the infantry and chariots near my wall, hoping that the arrow towers will bring them down, but nothing got shot? Why? Is this a bug? The tower says "0% damage" when I put my cursor over it, so it's not damaged.

3) In the end my general die during the seige, and I lost the city. I should have paid more attention to the other powerful factions. Question is: there are currently three powerful faction now - me, Pontus, and the Brutii (sp) -- I am not at the Civil War yet, so should I focus on all-out war with Pontus, or should I mop up the rest of the weaker factions, or should I do something else? Thanks.

**invictus** · February 21, 2007, 05:02 PM

You could always use the "move_character (name) x,y" cheat via console. Sucks though, welcome to total war! -Leon

**Archer of Sparta** · February 21, 2007, 06:19 PM

Cheating is for losers invictus.

Wait a couple of turns (if you have the money) to re-enforce your bordering provinces. Then see which enemy faction poses the most threat. Then attack them. It is always good to have allies to help you too.

**Saiah** · February 21, 2007, 09:05 PM

When you besiege a weak city, send a spy to to spy beyond the city's other neighbors and check if they have a great army nearby to somehow assist that said town. If there is one, forget attacking it. If there isn't, attack right away.

**Scutarii** · February 22, 2007, 04:19 PM

I assume the city you are talking about is Siwa. In that case, I would not have bothered with that city. You should have gone straight for the Nile Delta (Memphis, Alexandira, Thebes) Take these out and you have a good base for expanding iinto Egyptian Lands and the rest of the East. Good Luck.

**sentinel37** · February 22, 2007, 04:44 PM

Yes, it was Siwa, and I hate that area, all these land and it takes 3 turns to go from one end to the other. Just this fact alone made me not ever want to play as Numaria.

Hi guys, what about my second question? How do I get my arrow/fire towers to shoot at the enemy when they get close to my gate? I always get shot at whenever I seige a city!

**John I Tzimisces** · February 22, 2007, 04:47 PM

You're in luck then, because Numidia isn't playable unless you mod the game...

**Scutarii** · February 22, 2007, 07:33 PM

Oh, right. The 2nd question. Well, wooden wall arrow towers only fire when the enemy are directly in front of it. If the enemy is at the gate (sideways to the tower), they will not fire.

**I own, there4 I own** · February 22, 2007, 10:41 PM

Is it impossible to ram the stone wall variants? I use Sap Points just like everyone else.
I also renamed my settlements to M2:TW's settlement names so I don't confuse my friends in RL

**Plutarch** · February 23, 2007, 06:50 PM

Originally Posted by I own, there4 I own

Is it impossible to ram the stone wall variants? I use Sap Points just like everyone else.
I also renamed my settlements to M2:TW's settlement names so I don't confuse my friends in RL

zomg your friends if they play m2, shouldve played rtw, and known their settlements too! changing the names must have taken a bit =x