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Using the 1.02i patch, I have noticed a few small issues with minors in sieges. I'm not sure whether these are already known; I haven't saved files, but could replicate them easily if wanted.

I've noticed that if I have a force including minors, and click on a minor corps first and select "move into city" to initiate a siege, then when I try to click on another corps and do the same thing, the game says "move blocked". But if I start with a regular corps, I can move the rest in, including the minors, without a problem.

Probably the same bug--I had two minor corps stacked together. After fighting a field combat, I clicked the top one and selected the assault city button. Unlike "move into city", this command ordinarily affects all available corps simultaneously, and in fact the siege then begins without further dialogue. In this case, the siege began, but *only* using the top corps; the other remained in the rural area and didn't participate in the siege.

In both cases, there seems to be some difficulty recognizing minor corps as fully integrated into the controlling major's forces. I hadn't seen this before the latest patch, so far as I remember.

Nathan

Nathan:
 
Can you send me a couple of examples?
I'll try to get a game going showing this...
 
 
 
 

OK, you can actually use this savefile to see both forms of the problem.

The first form I think occurred when I won a battle at Vienna and then besieged the following month, but you can see it more simply right away by taking one of the French corps and the Naples corps from Linz and moving them to a hostile garrisoned city (like Dresden). If you select the Naples corps and click "move into city", then you can't do the same with the French corps; but if you move the Naples corps back out, and move the French corps in first, the Naples corps can follow.

The second form can be seen in Mecklenburg. Move the Denmark and Sweden corps in, and if you win the battle with the Prussian corps in the area, click "assault city". Now, here I was wrong in thinking that it just initiated the siege with the corps that happened to be selected. Experiment shows that either way, the Denmark corps besieges and the Sweden corps gets left behind. So there must be some weird pecking order at work.

However, if you involve a French corps in the combat too (like the one Massena has nearby), you can get all three corps to assault the city afterwards.

Nathan!
 
VERY good example!
Appreciate the help!
I've got this fixed (Technically this is not a new fix but was the result of an only partial fix in 1.02j) and will be in 1.02j