Quick Answers / 'Newbie' Questions

[denyd]

I've seen AI armies in both PTW & C3C (never in Vanilla, but I didn't play many games at that levet).

What the AI doesn't seem to do is build the Military Academy and mass produce armies from that.

 

[Ansar]

I've seen AI armies in both PTW & C3C (never in Vanilla, but I didn't play many games at that levet).

What the AI doesn't seem to do is build the Military Academy and mass produce armies from that.

I have C3C, is there a ratio?

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

The C3C AI won't ever use a MGL to create an army. The only time you will see an AI army in C3C is in scenarios where they start with them or some building autoproduces them.

 

[denyd]

I'll have to back and check. I'm pretty sure that in COTM 20 (a C3C game) the Aztecs killed my wounded Cavalry Army with a 2-unit Longbow Army.

Edit: Never mind it must have been GOTM 50. I never had cavalry in COTM 20

 

[Smart]

On vanilla AI can make an army. Here you can see an example

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

Yes, Vanilla and PTW AIs will and do use armies.

 

[Smart]

Anybody know any fix for armies in , like NoAIPatrol=0 for barbs?

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

It can't be fixed. It's one of the many bugs they left us hanging with. If you want the AI to use armies, you have to play PTW or vanilla.

 

[Smart]

What was changed on Conquests with armies, and why AI don't want to use them

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

It has something to do with the extra movement the army gets. If it puts a 1mp unit into the army, the army now has a movement of 2 and it will only put a 2mp unit into it. If it puts a 2mp unit in an army, it now needs a 3mp unit. I suspect they tried fixing it at some point and ended up removing the AIs desire to use armies at all. Otherwise we would be seeing lots of strange army combos in C3C.

 

[Mathias]

That doesn't seem like something that would have been hard to fix. Two simple rules:
1) If army is empty, load an offensive unit
2) If army is not empty, load a unit of same type as units already in army.

 

[fe3333au]

Question about uprisings ... Does anyone know how many barbarians are spawned per camp?

 

[HellboundHeathcliff]

It depends on the barbarian activity level chosen at the start of the game setup. IIRC, raging is 24 barbs/camp. The other levels will be less.

 

[rprA5]

stupid barbarians. they just removed my splein. how quickly should i be expanding at the beginning of the game? i just got flogged. too many cities, not enough soldiers...

 

[fe3333au]

Thanks Watorrey ... do you have a link to information ... I'd like to know the various factors ...

Barb Level
> No Barbarians
> Sedentary
> Roaming
> Restless
> Raging ... 24/camp

So difficulty level has no effect?

Thankyou in advance guys

 

[Luthor_Saxburg]

stupid barbarians. they just removed my splein. how quickly should i be expanding at the beginning of the game? i just got flogged. too many cities, not enough soldiers...

VERY soon! You're doing it right!!!

Losing a few coins for the barbarians is a small price to pay for your early expansion. You might lose a few coins now but it will pay off in the end!

 

[fe3333au]

I have searched thro the threads and came up with these statistics ...

Raging ... 24 per camp
Restless ... 16 per camp
Roaming ... 8 per camp

Can anyone confirm this for C3C with the latest patch ???

 

[rprA5]

is there a set waiting time before declaring war after bullying a civ out of a tech??

 

[Padma]

All deals (including Peace Treaties) have a 20-turn limit. So if you want to play "honorably", wait 20 turns. If you don't mind taking the reputation hit, you can attack them again as soon as they give you the tech.

 

[denyd]

Padma, if I understand you correctly, if I contact the AI and ask for a tech if he gives it to me I should wait 20 turns before attacking if I want my rep to be unblemished. Rarely do I ever demand anything from the AI so this is news to me. Normally I either trade for it, steal it or hammer him until he gives it to me to survive.