Longbowmen bug?

protista

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Is anyone else having a problem with the computer AI selecting to build longbowmen, irregardless of era or previous preferences? I find if I do not watch it, the computer is constantly selecting building longbowmen, even during the 1950's in an era of cruise missiles and nuclear submarines??
 
AI thinks: If my phalanx can defeat your tank, why not crank out more lower units but mass quantities and take chances....

Human thinks: stupid AI.
 
Actually, if you don't have the resources to build the better units, u'll have to resort to building those crappy units.

In my last game, I controlled rubber and saltpeter completely. So the enemies could only build riflemen to protect themselves. And since they don't have saltpeter, they cannot build cavalry (their best offensive unit). So they built archers instead.

Its funny watching the archers pelt their arrows at my tank. But it wasn't funny when a couple of these arrow shot throught the 1 hit point tank.

So the sheer number in this case helped them a bit, but not too much.
 
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