Do the AI factions receive military as well as monetary assistance?

A question i have been wondering for a long time now-do the AI factions recieve free extra troops when they are in trouble? Playing as the Romani, i have invaded Iberia, and annhilated what i thought was Lusotana's sole large army. Two turns later, several medium size armies and a full stack showed up out of nowhere. My initial assumption was that they had been hiding (for the whole game?), because i toggled the Fog of War off, and had been playing close attention to their troop movements for a while. Each turn following that initial battle, more and more half stacks showed up out of nowhere, when thier cities and the countryside were nearly empty the turn before. I really cannot explain it. I am aware the AI factions receive monetary assistance when they need it, which leads me to ask- is the AI receiving extra units (more than he could possibly produce in one turn)?? Has this spamming happened to anyone else?

that was mercs... the AI did receive a lot of money, so, coupled with EB's massive mercenary lists with pretty decent regeneration rate, made AI often over use them

Yep - only solution is to hire the mercs yourself to stop the enemy getting them.

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Originally Posted by Titus Marcellus Scato

Yep - only solution is to hire the mercs yourself to stop the enemy getting them.

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or go into descr_mercenaries, reduce all unit pools to 1 mercenary, and triple mercenary refresh rate.

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Originally Posted by siegfriedfr

or go into descr_mercenaries, reduce all unit pools to 1 mercenary, and triple mercenary refresh rate.

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that will made sure the AI got 10 new units or more in each turn...

suggestion : divide refresh rate by 3

Giving them military help would be the better solution, but it would be a modding nightmare and might even double the already extensive EB script.

Do it like I do it and play the game like a real man. Go to the money script and set all the add_money values for each faction to 0 except for the slave/rebel factions. This allows you to be able to play a multi-faceted game where you can win by spying, assassinating, attrition, etc. Not only that, but a faction with little resources is always more inclined to be reasonable in its diplomacy. This is much more "realistic" than simply playing a game where assassins and spying have hardly any effect, by preventing the game from being an endless series of Your Army v. Cpu Levies.

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Originally Posted by SlickNicaG69

Do it like I do it and play the game like a real man. Go to the money script and set all the add_money values for each faction to 0 except for the slave/rebel factions. This allows you to be able to play a multi-faceted game where you can win by spying, assassinating, attrition, etc. Not only that, but a faction with little resources is always more inclined to be reasonable in its diplomacy. This is much more "realistic" than simply playing a game where assassins and spying have hardly any effect, by preventing the game from being an endless series of Your Army v. Cpu Levies.

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Well, spy is useful to open the gates... and I turn off assassins for all factions as my personal preferences, as I can't assassinate the "personal security beefed" AI generals, and can only proceed by sabotaging constructions and noob diplomats...

well, SlickNicaG69, you'll see M2TW made assassination in campaign becomes much - much - much more important :wink:

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because they are the only one who could stop foreign missionaries from converting your population, bar the 9 captain stomp cheat