Bigger army doesn't equal better army...

[Plethora22]

This is my first post though I have been lurking here a lot over the past months. So hello all, love the site, hope to spend a lot of time here in the future...

But anyway, the point of this post is just that I've been wondering when programmers will be able to create an AI that can accurately gauge army strength, because I've been playing 4x type games for a long time and the AI still seems to think that a horde of hoplites will do the job against entrenched musketmen with cannon support... lol.

To be more specific, I've been playing on king with Egypt. In a recent game I started near Greece and went to war early as I thought that was a good idea with the War Chariots and all. I gave myself a pretty good lead over alexander, took over one city in a good place and made peace. As the game progressed Alexander repeatedly declared war, lost against a smaller number of superior tech troops, and then begged for peace.

I would really like to see some AI that can recognize that when facing superior troops just having a whole ton of your own isn't always going to work...

 

[12agnar0k]

Well I had a really fun battle with hordes of german troops, only slightly inferior to my one swordsman (Iroqoius UU sword though), I had two but their suprise attack while my other one was just on the outskirt of their territory on open ground caused him to get attacked and die by 4 archers :O. But anyway, this horde came at me, and all I had was one UU swordsman, and 2 archers and a great general, seeing the impeeding army I knew I had to make use of the citadels -3 damage to health defense, so thats just what I did, placed it right next to my newly conquered Beijing, and this horde, (like 5 archers 7 spearmen 2 warriors) all ran at my citadel, trying to run around it I guess, they all died pretty quick as I just defended my ground, I think I had a spearman that died on the assault on me, but that was it lol.

Sometimes numbers just isn't enough. Also the citadel if well placed can be very useful. Its a shame that the general is lost in the process.