movement impossible

[ndrose]

Didn't save a file for this one, unfortunately.

Prussian army at Paris. Mostly in the rural area, but one corps inside the city. At the beginning of the next land phase, I click on a corps in the rural area, and only Paris is outlined in white. The game won't let me move at all in any direction. Same for all the other corps there.

On a hunch, I move the corps inside the city back out of it. Then I can move the rest. In fact, I can put the corps back in the city and move the rest.

I suspect the game was reading the situation as some kind of backwards besieging, so that corps in the city was somehow pinning the others in place, even though they were outside the walls and they were all in the same army anyway.


Nathan Rose

[DCWhitworth]

I've sometimes found movement or unit selection to be a bit unreliable. Usually I can solve the issue by clicking somewhere else, making sure the unit(s) are completely unselected and start again.

[MarshallEllis]

If you guys can trap this then get a game to me and I'll look at it. I am studying how the game transitions between modes (Loading ships then moving, moving to cities then moving out of the area, etc). It is possible that some settings are not switching properly BUT I cannot trap this yet either!

[ndrose]

This wasn't a case of not being able to select the right unit. I've seen that, but it can usually be cleared with a right click or something. This was unique in that the corps was selected, said it had 3 movement points, but only its own area was outlined. Never seen that before.

Hey, whaddya know, I do still have it as the land autosave. OK, attaching file. Try any of the Prussian units at Paris (except the minor corps in the city). Then move the minor corps outside the walls, and presto, everybody can move again.

[MarshallEllis]

Nathan:
 
Got it and took a look. This save REALLY helped!
I will try and slip this into the 1.01 patch since it was a simple fix.
Without too much detail, the engine thought the Wurrtemburg Corps (Ignoring the Freestate status) was besieiging the Prussians thus keeping the Prussians in Paris.