# Japan campaign some military unit shipments not spawning

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**Category:** III - Report a Bug\
**Created:** [September 12, 2026, 3:26am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/japan-campaign-some-military-unit-shipments-not-spawning/289520 "2026-09-12T03:26:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![FluidPuppet8894](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/fluidpuppet8894/32/104519_2.png) [@FluidPuppet8894](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/FluidPuppet8894)\
**Post date:** [September 12, 2026, 3:26am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/japan-campaign-some-military-unit-shipments-not-spawning/289520/1 "2026-09-12T03:26:44Z")

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### ▶ GAME INFORMATION

- **GAME BUILD** #: v. 100.19.18309.0
- **GAME PLATFORM:** Steam
- **OPERATING SYSTEM:** Windows 11

### ▶ ISSUE EXPERIENCED

- I’ve been playing the Japanese campaign and for the first two missions some of my military unit shipments haven’t been spawning. The shipment sends but no units arrive.
- The 5 Yumi Archers and 3 Samauri Age 2 cards have not been working, but the 5 Ashigaru Musketeers card has been working. Weird.

### ▶ FREQUENCY OF ISSUE

- **100%** of the time / matches I play (ALWAYS) Japanese campaign
- I played the first campaign mission three times and it happened each time. Then I played the second campaign mission and it happened in that too. I’ve given up playing the campaign for now because it annoys me too much.
- I’ve only been playing the campaign since the new update yesterday. I was playing a couple of missions of the Steel campaign yesterday and didn’t notice any issues with that.

### ▶ REPRODUCTION STEPS

Here’s the steps to reproduce the issue:

1. Send military cards

2. Sometimes units don’t arrive

### ▶ EXPECTED RESULT

Units are supposed to arrive

### ▶ IMAGE

I don’t think you need an image for this. Feel free to ask follow up questions

### ▶ GAME FILES (SAVE / RECORDING)

It’s just a single player campaign, i’m not making game recordings for it.

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**Author:** ![StepanStarostin](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/stepanstarostin/32/185323_2.png) [@StepanStarostin](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/StepanStarostin)\
**Post date:** [October 7, 2026, 8:26am UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/japan-campaign-some-military-unit-shipments-not-spawning/289520/2 "2026-10-07T08:26:28Z")

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Happened to me too  
Not only Age 2 Yumi and Samurai but Age 3 and Age 4 cards of Yumi, Samurai, Yabusame and Naginata also  
Basically for Japan Home City only working military shipments are Ashigaru, Artillery and Mercenaries

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**Author:** ![FaeAlicia](https://forums.ageofempires.com/user_avatar/forums.ageofempires.com/faealicia/32/218725_2.png) [@FaeAlicia](https://forums.ageofempires.com/u/FaeAlicia)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2026, 1:18pm UTC](https://forums.ageofempires.com/t/japan-campaign-some-military-unit-shipments-not-spawning/289520/3 "2026-10-21T13:18:32Z")

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I noticed this too. You can even tell it’s not going to spawn anything when in a mission by hovering over the shipment icon. The tooltip won’t show a population value for Yumi, Samurai, and cavalry cards, but it does for the Ashigaru, artillery, mercenaries, and villagers cards.