How do I make my troops use siege equipment?

[Forblaze]

When setting up my formations before battle, how can I ensure that catapults or trebuchets end up manned? Frequently, I see my infantry ignoring them in favor of climbing/guarding ladders.

[Iskar]

When you select a group of units and start the command to move them around with F1+F1, move the destination flag on any of the siege engines. It should turn into a bluish gears icon by which you can assign them to the equipment.

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by Iskar:

When you select a group of units and start the command to move them around with F1+F1, move the destination flag on any of the siege engines. It should turn into a bluish gears icon by which you can assign them to the equipment.

Thanks. It's weird that there doesn't seem to be any feedback for issuing the order.

[ERKEK2000]

They don't even use it after the gear icon appears though.

[buttcheese34]

Originally posted by ERKEK2000:

They don't even use it after the gear icon appears though.

I don't believe so either. It doesn't give any feedback as someone else said if you hover over the piece of siege equipment with the gear icons while tapping the button to assign. maybe someone can confirm it actual does assign them without giving the feedback. or maybe i'm pressing the wrong button, i use the same button that my PC says "MOVE" with when assigning units on the battlefield to the spot you're hovered over.

[Zenn]

As of December 2024, ♥♥♥♥ still doesn't work. Delegate troops just send them headlong into the fight, no-one is manning them.

[Jake White]

Originally posted by Iskar:

When you select a group of units and start the command to move them around with F1+F1, move the destination flag on any of the siege engines. It should turn into a bluish gears icon by which you can assign them to the equipment.

Why do you all keep saying this when it's simply not true? As other have pointed out, all that does it order your troops to crowd behind the siege machine, not USE the machine.

[Jake White]

Originally posted by buttcheese34:

Originally posted by ERKEK2000:

They don't even use it after the gear icon appears though.

I don't believe so either. It doesn't give any feedback as someone else said if you hover over the piece of siege equipment with the gear icons while tapping the button to assign. maybe someone can confirm it actual does assign them without giving the feedback. or maybe i'm pressing the wrong button, i use the same button that my PC says "MOVE" with when assigning units on the battlefield to the spot you're hovered over.

Nah, you're right. It doesn't give any feedback because it doesn't actually work, just orders your troops to stand like a flock of sheep behind the siege machine getting rained on by arrows and rocks. Best guess is that it's impossible and its just another thing to add to the list of dev failures. Thank god for community mods or the game would be a flop.

[Urmel]

dont interrupt F6 delegate command. its the default setting at start of a siege battle.

never change orders in a siege battle if are not a very experienced player.

[Teralitha]

Maybe its your mods? I never give orders in sieges and my siege engines always get manned automatically. I do move troops assignments and leaders around pre battle though. Also I dont use mods.

[Jack-E-Boy]

I've had this same issue and this is what sorted it for me. Select the units group that you want to use the siege engine, look at the siege equipment so that you see the two gears, and then left click.

[fastforward]

Here is how i order the proper troops to use the siege equipment,
After having placed the siege engines the way i want (fire mangonel and ballistas) i press 0 to select all troops, then i press f6 to deactivate all automatic commands,
then i press f1 f1 to place all my formations in one spot
while still having all the troops selected i click on every siege equipment with the cogwheel icon to remove the troops from them (they are visually represented at this point but will get removed once clicked)
once all the equipment is empty i place one 4-5 people formation made out of my companions next to each of the siege weapons (mangonels trebuchets ballistas)
and then place deploy, once the battle starts the troops closest to it man the siege equipment. i usually walk towards the walls to bait the enemies into clumping up for better hits. when the ammo is depleted i retreat and do it again. can win sieges with 0 losses that way.
I dont know what all the people whos troops dont use the siege equipment are doing wrong, but it 100% works, and delegate command is not necessary for it to work at all.

[Clovis Sangrail]

I don't even use siege engines in the battle. I just use siege engines on the walls, then we just walk through the great big hole we made.

[Teralitha]

I stopped using siege weapons in battle also, ever since my own trebs wiped out a big chunk of my own troops. They dont know when to stop firing.

Seems this topic is actually a necro from 2 years ago.

[Eli]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.