I've been playing Skyrim PC recently, and was working through the Civil War questline with the Stormcloaks. I had a bounty of 1,059 gold when I completed the Fort Greenwall quest. I returned to Galmar Stone-Fist and started the Battle for Solitude quest.
On my way to Solitude, I was stopped by a guard and paid off my bounty, resulting in it loading with me outside Castle Dour. Due to that, the quest progressed to where I needed to kill General Tulius inside.
A while later, when attempting to return to Solitude, it didn't show up on my map, so I walked and when I attempted to enter the city, it spawned Ulfric and several Stormcloaks. Ulfric gave a battle speech to pep the troops on to attack the city.
I assumed that I would just have to go through the quest again, and went up to the city, but when I attempted to open the door, I received this message onscreen: "You must help the soldiers defend the city before you can enter."
I waited to see if I could bypass this. I researched online to see if I could complete the quest using commands, but that also came up bust.
I save over my previous save games to conserve space, and so I can't go back to a previous save to retry this. Please help me figure out how to fix this, or uncover my autosaves to go back and redo this.
Best Answer
If you are a stormcloak you can use the set-stage console command. Press the ` button left of the 1 on your keyboard and then type:
OR
To restart the quest to a previous point so you can do it again. Or if you want to skip the quest entirely:
INPORTANT! always save before using a console command, seeing it might make things worse if done wrong.