Another example of smarter AI in 1.29!

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Remember how the AI would land 2 or three units and declare war?

Those days are past (I hope), I see stuff like this more and more:

OK, I thought, two Galleons full..... Oh well, let me kill them......

the turn before, they'd already thrown 8 units ashore - their bad luck i had Tanks waiting



All in all, keeping in mind that the Persian are an age behind me and are half my size, this constitutes a rather serious landing, they can hardly do better, especially since there are already three more Galleons a few tiles offshore and will land troops next turn.

Firaxis: Whatever you folks did in 1.29 (maybe it was the upgrade thing you fixed?), it helped!

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

Oh, btw, Persia doesn't have Horses, and they can't get any wither - noone except me has two.

 

[Lt. 'Killer' M.]

hmm, well, ahhhhh....

the very next turn, the AI went back to its usual outright suicidal stupidity: Zululand (two towns, currently researching Magnetism(!)), landed two longbowmen on my coast and declared war - I guess they smelled my blood in the water

 

[stalin006]

yeah that happened to me on a scenario,i was germany and found out taht spain declared war on the UK and landed 3 armies by thir capital w/ tanks! fallowd by a massive bombardment by destroyers.

 

[Lab Monkey]

I have seen examples like this, but not often. On my last games the AI has improved it's gameplay with the opening attack. However I think that this initial strike is calculated to be the number of units needed for a better than average chance to take the target city (we already know that the AI is aware of the other civ's unit strengths). However once this initial attack is over, any reinforcements arrive as the usual drip-feed. I battered down India's opening assault because my cities were all rail linked (the AI is yet to work out that this gives any city a defence force equal to my whole army), but susequent strikes comprised of one or two riflemen (transported by galleons with space free for more units).

The AI is really just a territory grabber - and it'll declare war for the guarantee of one city, before making hap-hazard strikes for anything else.