Why won't my horse units and chariots auto pillage?

[Jacobz]

In Warlords, when I declared war on another nation, my horse and chariot units on auto would ransack the place, destroying farm land and mines, but they don't on BTS, WHY? Has anyone else noticed this? Is this just a change in programing or can it be fixed?


Jacobz

 

[Gibsie]

The AI is severely messed up. Hopefully a patch will rectify this... sometime ever.

 

[Jacobz]

So you noticed it too? Well, I hope they fix it soon, I liked it when my horses attacked everything in sight!

 

[Astax]

Well I guess you never had a chariot autopillage a town of a city you were about to capture.

 

[Steve2000]

I would highly recommend not putting any offensive units on AUTO. If you want your horse units to pillage, then do it yourself. I am not one of those civfanatics who says that you should micromanage everything and automate nothing - I automate my workers quite often.... but don't automate your offensive units.

Besides, if you are using chariots and horse archers then you are still in the ancient or classical era. Which means you probably don't have a very big army - what is to be gained by automating? You probably don't have such a huge army that it is a big waste of time to manually pillage or not pillage depending on your needs.