Crumble bugged?

[Manuk]

In a MP game I'm in few troops of my own were besieging a castle with 250 defense points. They couldn't breach the walls.
An earth-5 mage of mine casted "crumble" to harm the castle walls supposely to wear down 150 defense points.
Instead the army breached the walls instantly and I'm to storm the castle.
there's not much people inside (like 7 troops) but I have like 7 troops too.

Is this a bug?

[Xietor]

It does more if the mage has a higher level of earth magic then the spell requires, also you add the str of the attacking force squared and divided by 100 to that number minus the str squared divided by 100 of your defenders.

But you said he was an e5 mage. shrug.

Maybe his defending troops died of disease, or fled the castle(stealth). Or some other event killed his defenders.

[Ironhawk]

Has Crumble/Iron Walls ever worked? I thought they were bugged since dom2. Just assumed they didnt work in dom3? Never actually tried them as a result.

[Xietor]

yeah,

I typically play with Gorgon in MA, and i have used crumble at times, it does work. Of course hiring a ton of centaur longbows works too.

[HoneyBadger]

I just thought I'd mention that "crumble bugged" sounds like something unfortunate and obscene that would happen to Ron in an X-rated Harry Potter novel.

I have a dirty, evil mind-and I don't like keeping it to myself

[quantum_mechani]

Crumble tears walls all the way down, regardless of defense left. This is quite likely a bug, but a fortunate one given the spell would really suck otherwise.

Iron Walls was bugged, but was fixed a few patches back. It is still outrageously overpriced base game, though.