LOS issues in LT games

omarquatar · Post by **omarquatar** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:37 pm

while playing LT DAG games, i've become aware of occurrences where LOS rules are clearly applied wrongly; this tends to happen particularly, when a BG should fire out of a wood hex into the open... unfortunately, i'm not able to post some screens here, but...has anyone met the same problem yet ?

TheGrayMouser · Post by **TheGrayMouser** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 4:55 pm

Hmm , not that exact incident but I just completed LT battle where i had LF archers in the open unable to fire on an enemy BG that was also in the open, tried differnt angles and the game just wouldnt give me the ability to shoot. That bg must have cast an anti arrow shield spell

omarquatar · Post by **omarquatar** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:15 pm

it happened to me only once in SOA (in hundreds of games, i think), but has already ruined three games of LT by now

TheGrayMouser · Post by **TheGrayMouser** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:21 pm

BTW were there ditches involved? I ask because i am now recalling an SOA game i played last nite where I was not getting LOS at various stages of the game where i assumed i would have and there was ditch terrain within the vicinity. Maybe the game is treating ditches as something that blocks los?

omarquatar · Post by **omarquatar** » Mon Apr 18, 2011 5:36 pm

[quote="TheGrayMouser"]BTW were there ditches involved? /quote]

no, it isn't a question of ditches...basically, shooting BGs in the border of a wood, target BGs are in the open, no intervening obstacles or units, same level, target is in the field of fire, still the would-be shooter can't see target units... a comment by the developers would be most appreciated

omarquatar · Post by **omarquatar** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 7:14 pm

here it is again
i'm very sorry that i'm not able to post the screen, but i sent it via email to keith@hexwar
i think it has to do with auxilia BGs in the wood, possibly in certain maps only, but not sure of this
strange it's happening only to me, but it spoils the fun of playing my favourite army of western foederati (aka Stilicho and his heroes)

Blathergut · Post by **Blathergut** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:12 pm

I had units unable to shoot when LT first came out. Haven't played in a while and only RoR and IF and have had no problems. The issues were with later Roman mixed BGs auxiliaries.

omarquatar · Post by **omarquatar** » Sun Apr 24, 2011 8:17 pm

Blathergut wrote:I had units unable to shoot when LT first came out. Haven't played in a while and only RoR and IF and have had no problems. The issues were with later Roman mixed BGs auxiliaries.

exactly, it's that same problem, i hope in a fix (keith promised it, but not stating a time), those auxilia mixed units are very good looking

keithmartinsmith · Post by **keithmartinsmith** » Mon Apr 25, 2011 7:21 pm

Units with rear rank support shooting may not shoot if in woods. Keith