Viking Conquest Controls

[Mr. Nobody]

I hear people talk about being able to form shield walls but i cant seem to find that control anywhere, i also can't seem to find the control that makes your guy bang on his shield. I've pressed like every button looking for both. ( i know shield wall would most likely be in the orders controls like F1, F2, F3, but i can't find it.) Please someone help lol i don't feel like a viking without this stuff

[Meadows]

its F4. lol thats funny.

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally posted by *_*M*_*:

its F4. lol thats funny.

I tried F4 and basicall every other button with an F, but still nothing

[PolarFox]

Originally posted by JakeGetsBaked96:

Originally posted by *_*M*_*:

its F4. lol thats funny.

I tried F4 and basicall every other button with an F, but still nothing

I think you must have enough amount of infantry troops to activate F4, and select only this group, not all troops.

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally posted by PolarFuchs:

Originally posted by JakeGetsBaked96:

I tried F4 and basicall every other button with an F, but still nothing

I think you must have enough amount of infantry troops to activate F4, and select only this group, not all troops.

i did a custom battle with 200 infantry each and still nothing..

[PolarFox]

Originally posted by JakeGetsBaked96:

Originally posted by PolarFuchs:

I think you must have enough amount of infantry troops to activate F4, and select only this group, not all troops.

i did a custom battle with 200 infantry each and still nothing..

Strange. Just checked (version 1.03) - in custom battle 1-f4-f5 -> shieldwall (actually, infantry formed it automatically at start battle). Do you use any tweakers for MnB? And may be you started a campaign/sandbox with formations turned off? (you can see in camp menu-game options)...

[Stonechat]

Looks like troop formations are still broken.

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally posted by PolarFuchs:

Originally posted by JakeGetsBaked96:

i did a custom battle with 200 infantry each and still nothing..

Strange. Just checked (version 1.03) - in custom battle 1-f4-f5 -> shieldwall (actually, infantry formed it automatically at start battle). Do you use any tweakers for MnB? And may be you started a campaign/sandbox with formations turned off? (you can see in camp menu-game options)...

I'll check this but i don't think ihave it turned off. But they definitely don't form it at the start of a battle.

[White Knight]

For in-game advice you might be able to go and talk with Ealdorman Wulfhere down in West Seaxe. He is known to be a brilliant strategist and loves to talk about this stuff. He's the strategy guy in my game anyway, I don't know if that is the same every time.

When you are on the battlefield, pressing F4 is the default for Viking Conquest (and Warband I believe). The number keys are generally for selecting troop types, as I recall.

You've already been told about the main problems I can think of: Trying to put the wrong troop types into the formation, not having enough of the selected troop type available, etc.

Formations cannot be "still broken" because I use them all of the time. It's far from perfect, of course but it does what I want it to...not as quickly as I'd like some of the time, but they do follow the commands.

I'm also seeing that my army remembers that I'm going to put the infantry into a shield-wall and does it automatically at the spawn point. That usually causes me to think the game isn't responding to my orders and I have to try it a couple of times before I realize that they have already done it.

Anticipating my orders...those dirty birds! Lucky for them, I don't have a Seargent-At-Arms to sort them out.

Are you not seeing any drop-down menus at all, or do your troops simply appear to be not following the orders you give them?

[Mr. Nobody]

Originally posted by White Knight:

For in-game advice you might be able to go and talk with Ealdorman Wulfhere down in West Seaxe. He is known to be a brilliant strategist and loves to talk about this stuff. He's the strategy guy in my game anyway, I don't know if that is the same every time.

When you are on the battlefield, pressing F4 is the default for Viking Conquest (and Warband I believe). The number keys are generally for selecting troop types, as I recall.

You've already been told about the main problems I can think of: Trying to put the wrong troop types into the formation, not having enough of the selected troop type available, etc.

Formations cannot be "still broken" because I use them all of the time. It's far from perfect, of course but it does what I want it to...not as quickly as I'd like some of the time, but they do follow the commands.

I'm also seeing that my army remembers that I'm going to put the infantry into a shield-wall and does it automatically at the spawn point. That usually causes me to think the game isn't responding to my orders and I have to try it a couple of times before I realize that they have already done it.

Anticipating my orders...those dirty birds! Lucky for them, I don't have a Seargent-At-Arms to sort them out.

Are you not seeing any drop-down menus at all, or do your troops simply appear to be not following the orders you give them?

When i have 200 infantry and hit F4 nothing happens no menu pops up and the men don't do anything

[Mr. Nobody]

kinda disapointed block+q doesnt work in the single player either

[White Knight]

I don't know what to tell you fella, there's plenty of good advice in here already. If basic trouble-shooting doesn't help, hopefully it will be resolved with your next playthrough?

Sounds pretty lame though. Hopefully, you get it sorted out quickly.

How about re-mapping the keys? Reassigning the keys to something like the numberpad instead might work better for you? That's about the best I can up with though.

Good luck.

Edit - I'm curious, how do you know you have selected your infantry, if none of the buttons are responding? The first order is to identify who you are talking to, 1=Infantry, 2=Archers, 3=Cavalry, etc. The icons above the heads of the selected soldiers will glow bright green to let you know that you have their attention.

The F4 etc. are the orders you give to the selected units. I wonder if that might be the issue?

[Mordred]

Jake, 2 things...

1) do you have the 1.03 patch?
2) When you try to do a shieldwall (I usually use Spearmen so it is 4, but infantry is 1), do you do this....
a) Select 1 for infantry
b) Select F4
c) Select F5..(If you don't have enough Infantry you should get a message saying "not enough infantry to form a shieldwall")

do you check with backspace to see how many Infantry you have got in the battle?..Some may be listed as skirmishers,spearmen, etc....

If this still doesn't work, I think maybe you don't have the 1.03 patch?

[Mordred]

Good thoughts White Knight...Perhaps he has a busted or clogged F key?

[Mr. Nobody]

My number keys all work every key works but F4, my game is up to date. I'll hit 1 for infantry hit F4 and just nothing happens nothing pops up no order menu. F1,F2, and F3 all work like the Native. I've tried it with 200 infantry men and nothing. But also how you said there might be skirmishers in infantry there's no way for me to stop that.

[Sohei]

Check your key bindings and verify they have not changed.