sumthinelse, good post! I've never seen that the AI is better equipped in compat luck then I am. Sometimes my HEROIC, BRAVE, DEVOTED, BRILLIANTLY LED AND SUPERIORLY ARMED units win against all odds, sometimes the CHEATING, BACKSTABBING, UNREALISTIC AI win against all odds. For me, that is part of the charm. I loved it when my last wounded samurai managed to beat off 6 babylonian bowmen, thus saving my capito, and I equally loved that the babs in their turn held on to the strategically important Uruk like the Ruskies did in Stalingrad.
What is annoying is the way these battles are shown, and, here we go, all togather, THE SPEARMAN VS TANK SYNDROME again.
I've NEVER seen any posts about how stupid it was for that lone AI mech infantry grind those attacking panzers into dust. We can picture that. It makes sence and we can, unless we slept thruout school, see similar historical events. The few airborn Americans holding out during the Battle of the Bulge, the Spartans of Thermoplylae etc. What makes us rave about this cheating AI is the crazy battles that defy common sence. perhaps it would be better if you only had "units" in civ, not bothering to name them or give them any kind of graphic. Firafax has not a clue how to portrait the different units anyway, so why bother.
Fix the anacronism problem, and the reality of combat will sort itself out.
What is annoying is the way these battles are shown, and, here we go, all togather, THE SPEARMAN VS TANK SYNDROME again.
I've NEVER seen any posts about how stupid it was for that lone AI mech infantry grind those attacking panzers into dust. We can picture that. It makes sence and we can, unless we slept thruout school, see similar historical events. The few airborn Americans holding out during the Battle of the Bulge, the Spartans of Thermoplylae etc. What makes us rave about this cheating AI is the crazy battles that defy common sence. perhaps it would be better if you only had "units" in civ, not bothering to name them or give them any kind of graphic. Firafax has not a clue how to portrait the different units anyway, so why bother.
Fix the anacronism problem, and the reality of combat will sort itself out.