Can't attack city - no helpful tooltips

[Seven Flames]

I just fought a realy hard and costly battle only to find out that I can't attack the dark elf city. Does anyone have an idea why or how to solve this bug?
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561198097702013/screenshot/2023853806750820258/

[Human bean]

Maybe you have spent all your movement points?

[Seven Flames]

No, I have not. I also checked with another army and it was also not able to attack the city.

[ZoroTheBold]

Is another army siege attacking the city? An AI or something? If that's the case you cannot attack the city that they are already attacking. If not maybe post a screenshot of your predicament so we can see more details

[Eldi]

Can't see anything obvious but and I hate to say it. It could be a mod.

Have you just attacked it and won a battle there?

[Jerroser]

I also agree that there doesn't seem to be anything apparent in the screenshot that would block attacking the city.

Normally I would assume this would be due to another army already laying siege to the city, but given that the screenshot seems to clover the whole of the settlement, the besieger should be visible.

[Seven Flames]

Yes, there is no other AI army besieging it. The screenshot is linked in the original post.

I am using a couple of mods, but none that do anything with settlements, so there is no connecting factor to identify the mod - if it's caused by a mod at all.

I checked again after a couple of turns and it was possible to attack the city. Once again there were no other AI armies close by or even besieging the city.

[Burgerpunk 2020]

Originally posted by Seven Flames:

I am using a couple of mods, but none that do anything with settlements, so there is no connecting factor to identify the mod - if it's caused by a mod at all.

You would be suprised how much of seemingly unrelated scripts can turn into total mess when modded into almost decade old pile of spaghetti code

[Seven Flames]

Originally posted by Burgerpunk 2020:

Originally posted by Seven Flames:

I am using a couple of mods, but none that do anything with settlements, so there is no connecting factor to identify the mod - if it's caused by a mod at all.

You would be suprised how much of seemingly unrelated scripts can turn into total mess when modded into almost decade old pile of spaghetti code

Yeah, probably. The engine of Total War is totally old afaik. Add to that that WH1 was probably partially copy-pasted from Attila, which was to a high degree copy-pasted from Rome 2, which introduced annoying flaws regarding unit combat along with a new engine.

[pascal.difolco]

Can your army move at all ?
If not it's the infamous "hero stack bug", there's a hero at the exact same location than your army (occurs after some battles), and only solution is to find him/her between Skarbrand toes lol and kill him/her via console (mod)
If yes I have no idea ... try to move a bit back and attack ?

[Seven Flames]

Originally posted by pascal.difolco:

Can your army move at all ?
If not it's the infamous "hero stack bug", there's a hero at the exact same location than your army (occurs after some battles), and only solution is to find him/her between Skarbrand toes lol and kill him/her via console (mod)
If yes I have no idea ... try to move a bit back and attack ?

Yes, I can move my army, I also tried moving. Nothing worked - I had to let go of the opportunity to attack the city which I fought so hardly for (replayed the battle 4 times till I won and only with great losses) and come back a couple of turns later and then it worked.

[Fryskar]

Originally posted by Seven Flames:

Originally posted by pascal.difolco:

Can your army move at all ?
If not it's the infamous "hero stack bug", there's a hero at the exact same location than your army (occurs after some battles), and only solution is to find him/her between Skarbrand toes lol and kill him/her via console (mod)
If yes I have no idea ... try to move a bit back and attack ?

Yes, I can move my army, I also tried moving. Nothing worked - I had to let go of the opportunity to attack the city which I fought so hardly for (replayed the battle 4 times till I won and only with great losses) and come back a couple of turns later and then it worked.

From the pic i'd too guess its the hero bug.

E: At times, the game bugs out after a battle, like a settlement battle and fails to despawn a garrison hero. This hero kind of exists, but not really.
Any character prevents all others from standing/walking at the exact same position. So the Hero prevents your from attacking, but can't do anything or interact with anything. I'm not sure if that bug exists since 1, but would guess so. It did exist in 2.

[Seven Flames]

Originally posted by Fryskar:

Originally posted by Seven Flames:

Yes, I can move my army, I also tried moving. Nothing worked - I had to let go of the opportunity to attack the city which I fought so hardly for (replayed the battle 4 times till I won and only with great losses) and come back a couple of turns later and then it worked.

From the pic i'd too guess its the hero bug.

E: At times, the game bugs out after a battle, like a settlement battle and fails to despawn a garrison hero. This hero kind of exists, but not really.
Any character prevents all others from standing/walking at the exact same position. So the Hero prevents your from attacking, but can't do anything or interact with anything. I'm not sure if that bug exists since 1, but would guess so. It did exist in 2.

So the hero of the ai empire is on the field where the city is and therefore I can't move onto the city? That sucks. Kinda feels like the AI is cheating to prevent me from taking it's city :/

Edit: I know the AI doesn't do that on purpose.