AI Siege Equipment

[muffinman14]

When I do battles with armies that have siege equipment like trebuchets I see them algined with my troops and are close enough where the trebeuchets can fire at my troops. I have never seen the AI fire that kind of siege equipment at me.

[MizuKokami]

were they faceing you? trebuchets have only an arc of targetting, and can't be turned. also, the ai isn't too dumb these days, and might have been waiting till you got in combat, as the morale penalty does more damage then the trebuchet does.

[Mithrandir]

Quote[/b] (muffinman14 @ Nov. 16 2002,21:35)]When I do battles with armies that have siege equipment like trebuchets I see them algined with my troops and are close enough where the trebeuchets can fire at my troops. I have never seen the AI fire that kind of siege equipment at me.
That's cause they never fire at troops, only when you tell them to do so, otherwise they might waste valuable ammo on troops while there's still a castle to blast...

maybe setting the siege engines to "fire at will" will make them automatic, but I doubt it...

[jas]

Quote[/b] (Mithrandir @ Nov. 18 2002,09:24)]maybe setting the siege engines to "fire at will" will make them automatic, but I doubt it...
Yes, it does, as the Novgorods discovered when they sneak-attacked the province that I was using for building siege engines. I had eight spear & archer units, and more than enough catapults to fill the spare eight slots, so I lined them up in the back rank and set them to "fire at will". You could barely see the enemy as they advanced through all the showers of dirt and rock splinters ..