AI Hannibal, using trickery and stratgy

[LLXerxes]

First I'll tell you that if this belongs in the stories area, move it.
Key=Red stuff in the screenies=Romean stuff
Grey stuff in the screenies=Carthaginian stuff
Arrows =moves
F=fortify
D=Die
OK, so I'm playing RoR again (this time I'm being less agressive), as Rome, Warlord, whatever...
So I just captured Mersa Medakh, and I'm all "Wohoo! I captured Mersama Me- er, however it's pronounced" when I see a heavy cavalry tahtbelonged to evil carthage.

And i send my army to kill it so it doesn't attack me... and then they die...

So I move. And it looks like this:

Notice that then Carthage deploys an heavy cavalry 2 spaces south of my army. Since I didn't want to lose Mersa Medakh, and my army was in teh range to kill the heavy cavalry, I moved my army to kill it, and did.

Then evil carthage deployed 3 more heavy cavalry.
One attacked one of my legions near Icosium (and died)
One went 1 tile noth of my army and one went south west of my army (forcing my army to go choose one to attack... )
I can't provide the screenie for the next turn, sorry It got all screwed up... (which screws up this entire post )
But I went on to kill all of their heavy cavalry, and I took Icosium, and I'm going to play right now...

What do you think? Coincidence?

 

[Psychonaut777]

I think its coincidence. But good play by the AI. =)

off topic:
This is a really fun campaign. When I played it I settled all the area between Macedonia/Russia/Germany and used it to pump out troops. I like how Carthage tends to send troops up through Europe/Gaul into northern Italy just like in real life.

I found a really good strategy was to take Carthage itself and let the entire country throw its troops at the capital until they had hammered themselves to oblivion and then sweep around from Spain.

 

[philippe]

i destryoed carthage without resorting to spain.i attacked from sicily as carthage vs rome et vice versa

 

[Megabyte]

Hi!

I played RoR also as the romans. I first conquered carthage , then the gaul and then i had a long peacetime in which i settled all of spain and france + that bit of britain. Then i cranked out a mass of legions and began attacking the greek.My ally, the goths attacked from north and my legions rushed into Greek territory. By then , i won a domination victory. From all the civs , only persia seemed to be really ambitious (until i began the settling phase , they where the largest civ , also militarily) , persia conquered near all egyptian cities and had taken a good amount of the greeks land , but the "trench-war" with the goths from the north and me in former carthage/egyptian land was a Stalingrad for the persian troops....

Have fun !

 

[LLXerxes]

This wasn't my first rise of rome, it was my third.
the 1st 2 I conquersed Carthage, Africa, Western Macedon, Northern Persia, Egypt, Gaul,
and Scythia...
BTW, the thread wasn't about how you did in RoR, it's about the story

 

[Roi du Culture]

nice to see some artificial intelligence intelligence for a change.

 

[thetrooper]

nice to see some artificial intelligence intelligence for a change.

They always know where all your troops are - so I would hesitate to call it real intelligence... It´s more like "less stupid". And of course - they always attack (or plan to attack) your weakest (i.e. wounded units or the units with lowest defensive value). A worker have zero defensive value - that is why AI track them down with great obsession.

 

[dgfred]

They always know where all your troops are - so I would hesitate to call it real intelligence... It´s more like "less stupid". And of course - they always attack (or plan to attack) your weakest (i.e. wounded units or the units with lowest defensive value). A worker have zero defensive value - that is why AI track them down with great obsession.

That is why I like to use them as 'bait' for the AI , then
and get my worker back .

 

[thetrooper]

That is why I like to use them as 'bait' for the AI , then
and get my worker back .

I like this strategy dgfred and use it every so often. Some call it an exploit