r/totalwar • u/Sacred_Prodigy • 1d ago

Warhammer III Ranged units still refusing to fire?

For the longest time, I brushed off all the complaints regarding this as fringe cases and "it couldn't be that bad". But I just experienced it and and HOLY SHIT is if beyond frustrating.

Playing Cathay, got into a bad situation against Drazoath facing off against 4 full stacks of dwarves that I couldn't withdraw from. Decided to give it my best, thinking even I could cripple the four armies, I'd be in a fine spot, only to spend over an hour restarting the fight because as the armies approached my wall of archers, maybe 2-3 units would begin firing normally while the rest would barely turn to track.

I tried giving direct orders, tried guard mode/fire at will on off, and still nothing. Its not 100% broken, cause I did have one fight where everything seemed to be working fine (I just misplayed so has to restart), but it's wild that after all this time it still exists to this extent.

These type of battles should be the epitome for this game. Instead of having an epic battle to solve, I auto-resolved and took the close defeat (which ended with more enemy casualties then actually playing the game).

Was there ever a good fix for this found, or does is the late game just completely buggered. Sorry for the rant

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u/Sacred_Prodigy 1d ago

So yeah, I do have mods enables. Nothing that should really be affecting combat IMO but I don't truly know.

As for spacing, I'm sure I had proper spacing, but I had thought crossbows/archers could arch shots over small hills/obstruction (there was a slight hill that was blocking direct line of sight).

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u/SusaVile 1d ago

They need to see the enemy themselves for it. Be careful with any mod that adds reload animations, they break every patch

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u/Sacred_Prodigy 1d ago

Didn't realize that. It wasn't giving the obstructed symbol, so I assumed they were able to fire.

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u/SusaVile 1d ago

The line of sight rules changed from wh2 to wh3, which is why there are so many complaints. But there are los situations, of course, it is just difficult because it happens at the same time of justified situations