What's Up With The Bishop's Castles?

[danconnors]

I've noticed the Bishop will almost always start building royal castles in his counties--even when he doesn't have the materials needed to start. Thing is when you try to take over his county by attacking its town the game says there is a castle in the county, and you must attack that. Then when I try to lay siege to the castle nothing happens. The screen doesn't open to show what siege engines I want to build. My army just sits there.

What kind of racket does the Bishop have going?

[danconnors]

And a racket it is. I have had my army sitting in his castle for four seasons now. We can't siege his unbuilt castle, and we can't attack his undefended town. This is some sort of game bug. Since the start of this another of my armies entered a county owned by the Countess with a similar situation. She had an unbuilt stone castle. We attacked the town and bagged the county.

[danconnors]

So here we are, near game's end. The knight is gone. The Countess and Baron are down to one county each, and I have armies marching toward each with enough strength to totally crush them. But the Bishop still sits untouchable with his unfinished castle. THIS IS RIDICULOUS!

[Colonel Sanders Lite]

Yeah, sounds bugged, like the game incorrectly believes that the castle is garrisoned.

You could force the county to revolt out from under him and hope that doesn't crash the game. Torch *everything* in the county and keep it that way. As discussed in that other thread though, It will probably take years to do that and you *really* need to be sure that you keep everything razed every turn.

Another option would be to just remove your armies from the county and just let him finish his castle asap so you can sack it once it's done. Maybe even send him a bunch of money to help make sure he will actually get the stone/wood to build it, though there isn't really any guarantee that he'll spend it properly. You could even send him shipments of grain and cattle to try and speed things along too.

[russmiller4445]

Sounds bugged, try reloading game. You can starve him out of county by placing a large army in the county with armies eat set to ON at start of game.

[Darf/Fader]

I don't get this bug?! I also have the original game CD and never had this issue before.