army doesn't leave barracks????

[Trien]

I have a rebel army running to a biulding, they don't leave the building to defend or when i switch to attack they don't leave to attack... wtffffff

[jlking3rd]

The army base with tanks will at least try to get there in time.

[Trien]

they then ran into the woods, and the jeep just stood around.


they REALLY need to fix how the AI works with the rebels and military. It's downright embarrassing considering how everything else works.

[Appelgi]

Click on the barack building and select attack instead of defence.

[Trien]

Originally posted by 5teFKI Appelgi:

Click on the barack building and select attack instead of defence.

as I mentioned earlier I tried that and nothing happened. Thanks for reading.

[Trien]

Originally posted by jlking3rd:

The army base with tanks will at least try to get there in time.

you are correct, the tanks moved immediately, seems to just be the barracks

[Влад А4 (бумага)]

Army AI is completely garbage. Devs just don't fix the bugs and don't give a sh!t about it. I have 5 barracks, 2 tanks buliding and NONE of them do anything..The rebels just destroy my city

[Z-40]

Yeah its still not fixed, its almost 2022 and devs dont give a damn and thats why i wont purchase Tropico 7 on release. Thats for sure.

[editbayrat]

Originally posted by Z-40:

Yeah its still not fixed, its almost 2022 and devs dont give a damn and thats why i wont purchase Tropico 7 on release. Thats for sure.

I'm sure they'll miss you. (eye roll)

[Slab Hardcheese]

Thanks. That explains also to me why my barracks have been useless to fight certain rebel attacks. Is there any reason to use them? I hesitate to add several army bases. Don't they cut liberty?

[steveg700]

Don't write this all off to bugs in the code.

What bears explanation here is that you need your soldiers to actually be working before they can perform against attackers. Note that I say "working" here, not "employed". If you click on a building some workers will usually be ghosted-out. They're not currently working, usually off satisfying some form of happiness. They are NOT going to just teleport to their building and form a unit when rebels attack.

If your watch tower is not shooting at the rebels, click on it and look at the workers. Probably all three are ghosted-out. Nobody's actually manning the tower, so those rate-of-fire upgrades are doing no good. Three staff isn't really enough to keep a building working around the clock, so that's why towers often wind up being toothless speed bumps (and perhaps why the new overwatchtower increases the number of staff to five).

Barracks, forts, and bases require a minimum number of soldiers to be working in order to spawn units. Again, "working" means "not ghosted-out". I believe they need at least half. When rebels attack, soldiers tend to start making their way to the building where they work, but if they are far away going to some clinic or church or grocery, they have to physically make their way to their building.

So the long and the short of it is that you need barracks and the like to have convenient access to all amenities so they don't go wandering to far off from their workplace. This is problematic with military buildings because they lower liberty happiness, and that discourages players from putting them near population centers.