Norselands: Archers not shooting portal?

[JayleeVT]

My archers have shields. One of my knights is upgraded to a metal shield/sword, the other is not. sent them both out to fight the first portal of the island...

Knights just stand there letting themselves get hit again and again. Archers don't actually shoot the portal, they just stand behind the knights. I'm on island 4, but I remember seeing this happen on my last island too.

What's the problem here?

[Jakfolisto]

Just finished a campaign with the Shogun and started Norselands. This issue didn't happen in Shogun, but I experienced the exact same problem in Norselands.

[[B.A.B] F A T H E R M O C K E R]

hmm ... and u sure that you build a shield shed? ,,,

annyhow ,, feeed your knight as many coins he can absorb
before u next try
as it might happens, and they archers - all lost there shields in time
soo make sure u coin up the slot at the shield maker shed / market booth

*( i seen this happen to alot players when arrive island 4 ,
they tend be busy with very close portals
and kinda seems forget about that shield stand
soo remember that archers / builders will also go shield up
onto other side to get shields if thats the only way u can expand, and get a shed ) :D

[JayleeVT]

Originally posted by B.A.B F A T H E R M O C K E R:

hmm ... and u sure that you build a shield shed? ,,,

annyhow ,, feeed your knight as many coins he can absorb
before u next try
as it might happens, and they archers - all lost there shields in time
soo make sure u coin up the slot at the shield maker shed / market booth

*( i seen this happen to alot players when arrive island 4 ,
they tend be busy with very close portals
and kinda seems forget about that shield stand
soo remember that archers / builders will also go shield up
onto other side to get shields if thats the only way u can expand, and get a shed ) :D

Nope I 100% got them shields. When it happened the first time, I googled it and people suggested shields.

However, if your archers do not have shields, they will simply not follow the knight at all.

Mine followed the knight all the way out to the portal. I also confirmed they had shields before they left (they formed shield walls just fine).

So I'm not sure.

It doesn't happen all the time, though. The next time I sent them to the portal, they shot it like normal. It just seems that randomly sometimes they don't? Which is a bit frustrating but at least the game isn't unplayable.

[[B.A.B] F A T H E R M O C K E R]

when ever i play,,, i try fill the shield stand to a max - like evry time i pass it / em
on bouth sides - * if the economy allows it...

close portals and workers that also keep lose their shields
and without register it, u might be behind on equipment ;D

but atleast u getting ahead now
if attacking a portal,,, the best way is to ride along and monitor it happens....

feed coins to the knights when needed - else u archer might get robbed shields & bow ;D

i see u got plenty hrs played - so u proberly know all this
*even if Northerlands gameplay be bit diffrent then they reg biom

[Huang Zhang]

I've got this bug sometimes in Norseland, the knight reach the portal and archer are just here chilling.

[[B.A.B] F A T H E R M O C K E R]

u got 500hr's into the game soo u sure know whats it's about

still, get to a new island with shielded archers and knights
u do bissniss as usual

- build expand etc... even attack a portal
all seems normal - it very easy forgetable, that u dont have shield stand yet.

just saying even with shields they archers will in time *(at attacked portal)
stop shot arrows
and then after a while, also run home...

[JayleeVT]

Originally posted by Huang Zhang:

I've got this bug sometimes in Norseland, the knight reach the portal and archer are just here chilling.

Yeah they do that because the archers don't have shields.

The bug I'm encountering is when they archers *do* have shields, they travel with the knight, and then they just derpily stand in front of the portal doing nothing.

[Huang Zhang]

Originally posted by Sugarstar:

Originally posted by Huang Zhang:

I've got this bug sometimes in Norseland, the knight reach the portal and archer are just here chilling.

Yeah they do that because the archers don't have shields.

The bug I'm encountering is when they archers *do* have shields, they travel with the knight, and then they just derpily stand in front of the portal doing nothing.

I mean, the archers travel with the knight, but once they reach the portal everyone wait and do nothing.
I don't think they can take a second shield (took one before to become archer's knight).

It has happened to me when I've attacked the greed's HQ, I've got 2 knight with their archer, but only one group chose to fight ^^'

[JayleeVT]

Originally posted by Huang Zhang:

I mean, the archers travel with the knight, but once they reach the portal everyone wait and do nothing.
I don't think they can take a second shield (took one before to become archer's knight).

It has happened to me when I've attacked the greed's HQ, I've got 2 knight with their archer, but only one group chose to fight ^^'

AH, my bad! Haha. This is why it's so hard to get help with this issue... it's confusing ^^; But yeah, it seems like enough people have this bug that hopefully the devs can patch it somehow in future.

At least it only happens sometimes... it sucks but after an unsuccessful attack, you can send them out again and it wil usually work

[Fortus]

Workaround: Restart game

[CuccBoiSlim]

Just happened to me.

Most people on this thread have no idea what they're talking about, because archers won't even follow knight without shields lol they can't just not comment... gotta be a little helper

Steam forums amirite

I'm assuming it's a bug. Probably just have to restart campaign

[teleshoes]

yes, this is 1000% a bug. it has happened to me exactly three times, and i have never been able to figure out a cause to reproduce it. i remember thinking it might have to do with the transition from night-mode back to day-mode after the last greed is killed in a blood moon. (there was a possibly related bug where a crab would get 'stuck' off screen under the map or something and the blood moon would never end)

iirc, save&quit did NOT fix it for me and i had to restart the campaign

[Corvid79]

Yes just restart the game. This is a common bug that I've only had happen in Norse. Save and quit, when you load the game back up the archers should be fixed.

[Dioskouroi]

Just got this bug today. Why hasn't this been fixed yet?!

[m.]

Originally posted by Dioskouroi:

Just got this bug today. Why hasn't this been fixed yet?!

Hi, very sorry to hear you're having this issue!
If quitting and restarting the game didn't work, could you please reach out to our helpdesk at https://rawfury.atlassian.net/servicedesk/customer/portal/1 ? It's the quickest way for the devs to have a look. Thank you!