Macilrille
03-07-2009, 13:14
More AI weirdness...
If I besiege a strongly garrisoned enemy town that I have no immediate need to take, I usually starve them out. No need to take needless losses.
So when the time is up and the poor starving fools have eaten all the rats, bark, grandmothers or whatever, they sally.
True to my creed of no needless losses I usually take up a strong defensive position as far from the walls as I can so I do not loose troops to missile towers while pursuing the routing foe, and because I prefer field battles by far to storming fortifications (though sometimes I just surround the gates with missile troops and kill them all unit by unit as they come out though that requires strong and numerous missiles and it costs losses from missile towers and enemy missile troops inside). The enemy will then usually come storming with usual lack of tactical finesse and get annihilated as they rout back.
However, the last two sieges something different happened.
1) I ran to nearby hill to take up a strong defensive position while they were marching out.
2) I have strong position while they are getting their army in formation and order, I resist the temptation to assault as it would cost losses.
3) Nothing...
4) Time runs out and battle ends in a draw.
5) I get the city and do the Roman thing to it, enslaving, looting and killing.
Nothing happens as the enemy sally, enemy just gets army in perfect order then stand around, both armies in plain sight of each other. They might as well not have sallied.
Anybody else tried this? Is there any way I can change it without myself using stupid tactics such as fighting them right under the walls where they have support?
If I besiege a strongly garrisoned enemy town that I have no immediate need to take, I usually starve them out. No need to take needless losses.
So when the time is up and the poor starving fools have eaten all the rats, bark, grandmothers or whatever, they sally.
True to my creed of no needless losses I usually take up a strong defensive position as far from the walls as I can so I do not loose troops to missile towers while pursuing the routing foe, and because I prefer field battles by far to storming fortifications (though sometimes I just surround the gates with missile troops and kill them all unit by unit as they come out though that requires strong and numerous missiles and it costs losses from missile towers and enemy missile troops inside). The enemy will then usually come storming with usual lack of tactical finesse and get annihilated as they rout back.
However, the last two sieges something different happened.
1) I ran to nearby hill to take up a strong defensive position while they were marching out.
2) I have strong position while they are getting their army in formation and order, I resist the temptation to assault as it would cost losses.
3) Nothing...
4) Time runs out and battle ends in a draw.
5) I get the city and do the Roman thing to it, enslaving, looting and killing.
Nothing happens as the enemy sally, enemy just gets army in perfect order then stand around, both armies in plain sight of each other. They might as well not have sallied.
Anybody else tried this? Is there any way I can change it without myself using stupid tactics such as fighting them right under the walls where they have support?