Celtic Warrior
Warlord
- Joined
- Aug 29, 2004
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The AI assitance has strange behaviour.
Two examples:
1. As the Romans I had two armies sieging a town, approx 850 and 150 each.
The Gauls attacked the smaller army, naturally, but the bigger army was the reinforcements. I accidently set the bigger army on AI control. I cotrolled the small army.
The Gauls and the big army fought first, the big Roman army out numbered the Gauls by approx 300. I watched on as my smaller army was on the other side of the battlefield. I soon saw white flags raise up all over my AI controlled army and they fled.
The Gaullic army of about 500 then came charging at my 150 men. I stood my ground and a mass melee began. I eventuall lost been completely out numbered and surrounded.
Here's the annoying part - the 150 army killed more than 850 did, infact the 850 barely killed any.
2. This time, Romans (me) v Gauls again, controlled about 200 men v 200 Gauls and I had 40 Romans in reinforcements controlled by the AI. Neither army had any missile units so most of the fight was a hand-to-hand melee combat. The AI Romans flanked both me and the Gauls, took up positon right behind the Gauls and then stopped. They did nothing for the rest of the battle, while metres away (in battlefield terms) I was fighting a very close and hard battle with the Gauls. They never helped once. If they had charged the rear it would have inflicted heavy damages on the Gauls as I could have pushed harder in the front but they did nothing. I won the batlle in the end despite my so called "reinforcements".
I don't expect the AI assist to be a tactical genius but they could least fight.
Two examples:
1. As the Romans I had two armies sieging a town, approx 850 and 150 each.
The Gauls attacked the smaller army, naturally, but the bigger army was the reinforcements. I accidently set the bigger army on AI control. I cotrolled the small army.
The Gauls and the big army fought first, the big Roman army out numbered the Gauls by approx 300. I watched on as my smaller army was on the other side of the battlefield. I soon saw white flags raise up all over my AI controlled army and they fled.
The Gaullic army of about 500 then came charging at my 150 men. I stood my ground and a mass melee began. I eventuall lost been completely out numbered and surrounded.
Here's the annoying part - the 150 army killed more than 850 did, infact the 850 barely killed any.
2. This time, Romans (me) v Gauls again, controlled about 200 men v 200 Gauls and I had 40 Romans in reinforcements controlled by the AI. Neither army had any missile units so most of the fight was a hand-to-hand melee combat. The AI Romans flanked both me and the Gauls, took up positon right behind the Gauls and then stopped. They did nothing for the rest of the battle, while metres away (in battlefield terms) I was fighting a very close and hard battle with the Gauls. They never helped once. If they had charged the rear it would have inflicted heavy damages on the Gauls as I could have pushed harder in the front but they did nothing. I won the batlle in the end despite my so called "reinforcements".
I don't expect the AI assist to be a tactical genius but they could least fight.
