Why does reinforcement come from different way when they were at same place?

[Berewolf]

A garrison comes as reindorce behind enemy line when my army came from the same town as them.

Why does this happen?

[Ysthrall]

Reinforcements seem to come on from a pretty much random direction. It's not just you, this has been happening since TW:WH1 was released.

Annoying isn't it?

No idea why...

[Gray Riders]

The first game semi-fixed it at one point (it was never entirely fixed; I saw it happen in the Wood Elf mini campaign late on but pretty much only there by the last patch), but it seems to have returned in game 2.
In my experience it mostly seems to happen if a settlement garrison is involved, but it might happen elsewhere, too.

[Orderan]

I had some serious hit and miss on that one. Sometimes the army arrived from the right direction (both armies on the same size of the map ->reinforcement came on the same size on the battlefield). And sometimes what the eff is going on I don't even know (ennemy reinforcement arriving from behind, at the same place and same time than my garrison, they were attacking the army I posted right outside.

[JusTheory]

Yeah, reinforcements should always appear from the campaign maps direction. This would give your Army movement some strategic play.

[zefyris]

Garrison reinforcement is clearly bugged, the dirrection they're coming from is usually off for some reason.
When a battle involve reinforcement but no garrison involved, the direction is usually correct. Usually.

[JODEGAFUN]

Medival Total War 2 (more then 10 years old did exactly this) the reinforcements arrive from the position on the campaing map, so if you suround a city with 3 armies you cold attack from 3 sides at one time (if you had more than 40 units all more than those would be AI controlled). And yes citys and fortresses had a complete suround wall around them.

[Sarcastro]

This probably is the oldest most annoying bug in the game. They acknowledged it in WH1 and said were working on a fix and it is still present to this day.

[Nieno]

Attack a “gate“ from two sides

[Zane87]

They were distracted chasing some butterflies before joining your fight.

Unfortunately, they derailed a bit but come on, those were beautiful butterflies

[Wh♂♂par]

It seemed like as someone said it, that the reinforcements are the opposite of where their standing on the campaign map. West coming from East, North from South, etc. Don't know, if it's 100% the case, but often enough it feels that way.

[Ruinae Retroque Rursus]

Could it be that it's not the position of the reinforcing army relative to who you're attacking, as opposed to the reinforcement army relative to your attacking army? Or vice versa?

Ah, M2.... where reinforcements actually WORKED

[Björn]

Originally posted by Ysthrall:

Reinforcements seem to come on from a pretty much random direction. It's not just you, this has been happening since TW:WH1 was released.

Annoying isn't it?

No idea why...

they fixed it in WH1 after 6-9 months. Looks like it will never be fixed in WH2. Annoying isn´t it, upgrading an engine that is ancient is bound to give some bugs and optimisation problems

[Xhal]

Its random.

CA doesn't care.

Best way to counter this when it happens : hide you real army in a corner/wood somewhere and suicide charge the garrison to inflict as much damage as you can before they die. Garrissons cost nothing and replenish on their own.

[Björn]

Originally posted by Xhal:

Its random.

CA doesn't care.

Best way to counter this when it happens : hide you real army in a corner/wood somewhere and suicide charge the garrison to inflict as much damage as you can before they die. Garrissons cost nothing and replenish on their own.

bigger problem attacking cities. If the enemy sallies out of a city the army will be in front of you but the garrison will be reïnforcements that will come in behind your army. Really annoying to deal with and will cost you a lot of troops

[Chthonic Guardian]

The garrison army always comes from the other side of the map on the Throne of Khaine map when you sally forth.
It usually sucks, but today it worked out great as the opposing armies also came from opposite sides, and I wiped out the reinforcements almost immediately, and then rear attacked Nagaroth's main army. lol

But yeah, it sucks and shouldn't happen. You would think it would be an easy fix, but apperently not.