Archers in siege defense

[Sikker]

Hello, I have a little problem with archers in siege defense.

The archers that spawn in the begining are usually fine and have a good position. (although some spawn right atop the ladder and are the first ones to engage in melee, what the hell is the purpose of that?) But the real problem is the archers that spawn with the reinforcements, they usually just stay at their spawning place at bottom level and don't do anything. Sometimes theres a house in the way and they don't even shoot the enemies on the wall. So I tried telling the archers where to go but this made ALL our archers go to the same place, even the ones that already had a better place....isnt there anyway to just tell the archers that are close to me where to go? Or any other solution? Im using native btw so no mods.

 

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Press 2 to select archers and f1 then f2 to make them follow you, once they are in the place you want press 2  f1 then f1 to make them stop and hold position.

 

[pickled_heretic]

obviously crab didn't read the post...

you can try giving orders to troops near you.  i dont' remember what the key sequence is, but there's a command to grab the troops that are close to you.

 

[GiantEnemyCrab]

I did read his post, he said he wanted a command to move certain troops, i gave him those commands.

 

[pickled_heretic]

I did read his post, he said he wanted a command to move certain troops, i gave him those commands.

no you didn't, you gave him the command to move all archers, which as he said he has done, however this causes existing archers to move from their posts.  he wants to move only the archers that are spawning in as reinforcements, your method moves them all.

 

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Well i dont think there is a command to move units that are close to you, if there is my mistake.

 

[Landwalker]

Well i dont think there is a command to move units that are close to you, if there is my mistake.

There is, and it's the dash/hyphen/minus key (in between 0 and = on the top row of the keyboard).

 

[Aure]

the real problem is the archers that spawn with the reinforcements, they usually just stay at their spawning place at bottom level and don't do anything. Sometimes theres a house in the way and they don't even shoot the enemies on the wall

For that problem i have 2 suggestions:
You can move you're infantry to create another choke point that is effective for your archers (depends a lot on the castle/town you defend).
Or you can command you're archers to take up a position where they can shoot at the ladders/initial choke point.

As far i know there is no command for them to take up positions similar to there starting ones. Neither option is perfect so try them both out, see what works for you.

A easier solution is to use less archers in town defenses. A decent number of Huscarls will have the attackers crying for there mommy's

 

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Well i dont think there is a command to move units that are close to you, if there is my mistake.

There is, and it's the dash/hyphen/minus key (in between 0 and = on the top row of the keyboard).

Ahh thank you for telling me this.

 

[Sikker]

Well i dont think there is a command to move units that are close to you, if there is my mistake.

There is, and it's the dash/hyphen/minus key (in between 0 and = on the top row of the keyboard).

Thanks, I'll try this next time I'm in a siege