Well, the *.smk was not a fluke. Now tell me, how can this happen? Now I have enemies approaching and I have one single legionare left, on his way home, out of ninety-six. He is terribly frightened. I now have NO shot at winning this game. The enemy will surely be here before I am able to restore my legions even though I have no problem with the barracks, the millitary academy, or the weapons - of which I have 284 in stock. Labor will not be a problem either. But, walls and towers and Mars won't be able to fight off the enemy. For the doubting Thomas out there, I was lucky enough to have a saved game only about a year from the impending doom, should you want to observe for yourself the strength of my forces.

: Have you installed the update patch of C3 ?? I've had the same problem at Mediolanum (don't know which rank I had, maybe it's the same level ??) after 'patching' and furthermore very strange other effects on the game, such as nonsense text messages concerning my hippodrome ( I had none neither could I build one). If that's the point & you have lately installed the patch, try to re-download it, uninstall & re-install C3 patching it with the newer downloaded patch. In my case, it helped!!! May Mars be with you!!!

Got the patch. It is really disappointing to see a defeat with a window stating that I should have sent a larger force. Would you sign a defense pact with me so that in the future we can combine our armies and perhaps have better luck? ;-]

What about the health of the legionaries? They affect more than the morale of the legionaries, too.... And make sure there is no mounted ones - the surely all die out! Anonymous

The stuff below is obviously posted in the wrong spot since it has nothing to do with this thread. ______________________________________________ : Could it be those walker sprite limits bug that I've answered so long ago and now it came back??? Oh yes, the city can keep up to 1000 walker sprites, so maybe your city is too big! If recent fires, houses devoting for NO reason, found that workshps are idle and workers in a flash and gone, this is a reason why this is the problem, because your legions 'back home' are counted 16 walker sprites!!! : I'm not sure about this, but sorry if this is an misunderstood this problem... : Good Luck! : Anonymous

: Hey, keep cool, he was just trying to give another point of view, another possibiity to solve the problem!! BTW, has the problem been fixed by reinstalling & re-downloading the patch??; your response sounded positive, but not directly saying it worked. I would be quite happy to hear I could help :-)

: Actually I had the patch already. Even if I did as you suggest, it would not apply to the game at hand, would it? If I reinstalled the patch, is it backward compatible? Will I then win the battle? As an update, when I lost the battle, Caesar was angry and sent his troops to slaughter what legions I could rebuild. AND...the troops from Rome arrived just as the Carthaginians arrived. It wasn't pretty. They beat me all the way back to Architect. ;-)

  In Reply to: update posted by OGR81 on 6:12 p.m. 4/22/99:

: Cheer up! - Caesar and the Carthaginians have to be a piece of cake compared to those guys (whoever they were) who whipped your six legions in the first place!