axe.exe vs rtw.exe vs bi.exe whitch is the best?

[Che Roriniho]

If this thread offends you, don't respond. This issue is not addressed in the FAQ and searching often doesn't work as one doesn't know the correct terms to search for. There is also that obnoxious feature of the search mechanism that allows you to search only once every 300 seconds or so. Honestly, do you run a search before every thread you start?

I remain interested to see what responses people give as I am considering buying BI or ALEX.

Hear Hear. Incidently, I know RTW.exe has been given a bad press about the lack of Naval Invasions, but they seem fine to me. Haven't had any problem with it. slight problem with lots of tiny armies (1 or 2 units in each, all next to each other.) But this only appears to happen between 2 AI armies, hen the Player is at war with someone (as far as I can tell), all seems fine.

[mlc82]

Alex.exe led to me losing a campaign for the first time in history since RTW came out, on "hard" difficulty so it wasn't just going insane as usual either. That's all I need to make Alex my favorite.

[Woreczko]

Another alex.exe fanboy. With this executable AI seems more able to create solid sized armies. I find fighting numerous stacks of 1-3 trash units very tedious and alex helps to fix this problem. Also AI seems to take more risks. Sometimes it will attack your forces, despite being weaker. I did lose a city or 2 due to such an unexpected behaviour. "Oh, Saka FM + 2 noble Saka HA popped next to Marakanda. Well, they won`t dare to attack a city garrisoned with 5 infantry units.... Damn, they did... Still odds 5:4 in my favour <autocalc>... Oh shit!" (I always autocalc if there is no family member present on my side).