helping allies in battle

**Lancome** · 09-09-2008, 01:53

anyways I wouldnt bother to help them out... On my Russian Campaign the Hungarians came to help in a battle against the HRE... All they did was stand there and get picked off by HRE Xbow men bolley after bolley after bolley

. Ofcourse I lost due to my inferior amount of men/ inferior quality of men. soooo yea... Getting Helped by AI allies is worthless.

**Askthepizzaguy** · 09-09-2008, 01:58

I love the innovation in Kingdoms where you can more or less control AI reinforcement.

Holy god it's brilliant. If you make it simple, like make thier army all-cavalry and no general, they will destroy routers and charge the enemy's flanks while you do infantry and archer stuff. It's like having 40 or more units more or less under your direct control.

More ideas like this, please. I mean seriously, this part kicks serious ash.

EDIT: If the AI were programmed to control 2 armies on the field and on the campaign map kept a pair of armies together (with night fighter, preferably) then they could actually deflect an early blitz attack.

**Lancome** · 09-09-2008, 02:15

Originally Posted by Askthepizzaguy

I love the innovation in Kingdoms where you can more or less control AI reinforcement.

Holy god it's brilliant. If you make it simple, like make thier army all-cavalry and no general, they will destroy routers and charge the enemy's flanks while you do infantry and archer stuff. It's like having 40 or more units more or less under your direct control.

More ideas like this, please. I mean seriously, this part kicks serious ash.

EDIT: If the AI were programmed to control 2 armies on the field and on the campaign map kept a pair of armies together (with night fighter, preferably) then they could actually deflect an early blitz attack.

ATPG If I bribe you for 20,000 florin. Would you bow to my WILL!?

**Galain_Ironhide** · 09-09-2008, 03:04

One of my more favorite battles was in my KOJ Broken Crescent campaign where I parked about 10 units of my best cav (1 general unit and a mix of Templars and Hospitallers - plus a couple of archers) next to my allies (the Armenians) settlement which was under siege by the ERE (byz). The Armenians only had 3 units of infantry and 2 units of archers defending the city against a full stack of ERE troops. When the battle began it was kind of like when the Horse Lords came to the aid of Gondor at the White City in the Lord of the Rings Movie, it felt brilliant to be a part of. I ran most of the ERE infantry down out the walls as they tried to climb ladders, and then had a good fight against their heavy cav. I did the final mop up inside the city where the ERE almost had the armenians on the ropes. All in all I think I lost probably just over half of my force (cav vs spears was my biggest killer) and the Armenians lost about 90percent. The ERE survivors fled back to their homeland. My rep became amiable after that fight.

Backing up the AI can be fun.

**Askthepizzaguy** · 09-09-2008, 03:07

Originally Posted by Lancome

ATPG If I bribe you for 20,000 florin. Would you bow to my WILL!?

If we were in a hotseat game, I will give you my 100% guarantee that I would accept the gift, and my 99%* guarantee that I'd honour any agreement we might have.

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Guarantee not valid in 48 states.