JoeBax
12-16-2002, 17:54
I have found the AI very easy to exploit and its taking the fun out of the game. I play on hard and will start my next campaign on expert but I dont think it will help.
Here is an example. Playing the danes I jumped on a teritory from the HRE and planned to just loot the province and retreat. But I had just saved the game so when they invaded I battled them for the hell of it.
They had 1200 men I had 600. I had my king and four princes so I had 5 units of royal cavalry. What I did was run my cav units around behind the enemy and they totally repositioned thier army to face them leaving all my other troops at thier back, albiet out of site or thier troops.
Thier general of course went to thier rear while thier army went after my princes and king. I sent my army marching at thier back and thier general spotted my archers first so charged them leaving my unit of spear men and 4 units of vikings to slaughter thier general. All the while my cav units were running thier units in circles. Afterwards it was an easy win. I lost about 100 men they lost 400 and 300 taken prisoners. I saved the replay thinking it was a strategic masterpeice but when I showed it to may friend he said it was a cheap exploit.
Next is Im fighting the russians who have mostly boyars and archer cav units. I set all my troops to hold thier ground so they dont chase after them. All the enemy does is harrass my troops and run off trying to draw out the ranks. They dont even try to send thier foot troops even though we are evenly matched.
So I just set the time adjust to 100% and waited till the time ran out. I lost about 90 troops but held the province. Too easy. Next time they attack I plan to have like 4 or 5 archery units so they will lose more trops than me and we will never actually engage in hand to hand combat.
Here is an example. Playing the danes I jumped on a teritory from the HRE and planned to just loot the province and retreat. But I had just saved the game so when they invaded I battled them for the hell of it.
They had 1200 men I had 600. I had my king and four princes so I had 5 units of royal cavalry. What I did was run my cav units around behind the enemy and they totally repositioned thier army to face them leaving all my other troops at thier back, albiet out of site or thier troops.
Thier general of course went to thier rear while thier army went after my princes and king. I sent my army marching at thier back and thier general spotted my archers first so charged them leaving my unit of spear men and 4 units of vikings to slaughter thier general. All the while my cav units were running thier units in circles. Afterwards it was an easy win. I lost about 100 men they lost 400 and 300 taken prisoners. I saved the replay thinking it was a strategic masterpeice but when I showed it to may friend he said it was a cheap exploit.
Next is Im fighting the russians who have mostly boyars and archer cav units. I set all my troops to hold thier ground so they dont chase after them. All the enemy does is harrass my troops and run off trying to draw out the ranks. They dont even try to send thier foot troops even though we are evenly matched.
So I just set the time adjust to 100% and waited till the time ran out. I lost about 90 troops but held the province. Too easy. Next time they attack I plan to have like 4 or 5 archery units so they will lose more trops than me and we will never actually engage in hand to hand combat.