Fortified Churches with only Relics garrisoned fire arrows

Age of Empires II: DE II - Discussion
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:arrow_forward: GAME INFORMATION

  • GAME BUILD #: 99404
  • GAME PLATFORM: Steam
  • OPERATING SYSTEM: Windows 11

:arrow_forward: ISSUE EXPERIENCED

When you garrison only relics inside a fortified church, it will count as if villagers were inside and thus fire arrows at the enemy.

:arrow_forward: FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

  • 100% of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS)

:arrow_forward: REPRODUCTION STEPS

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

  1. Build a Fortified Church as Georgians or Armenians.
  2. Train a Monk or Warrior Priest.
  3. Collect and garrison 1 or more Relics inside the Church.
  4. Wait for an enemy to get in range of the Church (or just right click a hostile target within range) and see it fire arrows against him.

:arrow_forward: EXPECTED RESULT

The church should only fire arrows if there were humans beings garrisoned inside it (villagers, warrior priests, maybe monks too).

:arrow_forward: IMAGE

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:arrow_forward: GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

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this is intended design thats what fortify churches do and thats why its special, iirc not a bug

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Relics are intended to fire arrows, its in the tech tree

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It’s intended to work that way. It’s quite bizarre behavior, so I understand why you’re confused, but this is the same expansion that added Mule Carts that can be garrisoned in buildings, so don’t look into it too much. Rest assured, it is not a bug.