TheRiddler
05-13-2005, 18:02
Hi all,
As a casual user, most of the AI issues don't seem to bother me too much (as in I don't really play often enough to notice them etc).
However, I was playing last night on E/E (I said I was a casual user!). I had a Numidian town surrounded with my large force (full stack including general) and a smaller force of cavalry and assorted other units (no general) that had been marched down from one of my cities - there was a full stack garrisoned in the Numidian town.
The Numidians sallyed to try and break the seige and sensibly attacked my smaller force - which I got to control during the battle and my large force was AI controlled.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I had a tough battle - cavalry against spearman is not a pretty sight - had it been on anything other then Easy I probablywould have lost. My main query is around my main force- it did absolutely nothing all game except for march to the gates and fire arrows - now considering that they had an Onager, 2 Ballistas and a unit of merc elephants, why did they not try and break the wall down and help my smaller force? Is it because the Numidians attacked me and therefore the onus was on them to break the seige? If I hhad sat out the timer for a draw, what would have happened?
Finally (sorry for the long post) - does anyone know how the battle timer works? Why do I sometimes get 20 mins and sometimes 30 mins?
As a casual user, most of the AI issues don't seem to bother me too much (as in I don't really play often enough to notice them etc).
However, I was playing last night on E/E (I said I was a casual user!). I had a Numidian town surrounded with my large force (full stack including general) and a smaller force of cavalry and assorted other units (no general) that had been marched down from one of my cities - there was a full stack garrisoned in the Numidian town.
The Numidians sallyed to try and break the seige and sensibly attacked my smaller force - which I got to control during the battle and my large force was AI controlled.
Anyway, to cut a long story short, I had a tough battle - cavalry against spearman is not a pretty sight - had it been on anything other then Easy I probablywould have lost. My main query is around my main force- it did absolutely nothing all game except for march to the gates and fire arrows - now considering that they had an Onager, 2 Ballistas and a unit of merc elephants, why did they not try and break the wall down and help my smaller force? Is it because the Numidians attacked me and therefore the onus was on them to break the seige? If I hhad sat out the timer for a draw, what would have happened?
Finally (sorry for the long post) - does anyone know how the battle timer works? Why do I sometimes get 20 mins and sometimes 30 mins?