How agresive is the ai?

**KingKnudthebloodthirsty** · 10-17-2008, 22:15

hey guys, how agressive is the ai exactly? it seems to me they never bother to kill each other. is there in your game when one ai faction has destroyed another? as always, thanks.

**GMaximus** · 10-17-2008, 22:39

I've seen it happen plenty of times myself. Most often examples from my games are - Milan destroys HRE, England destroys France, Spain destroys Moors, England destroys Scotland (or vice versa, it seems to depend on whichever takes York first, as if the Scotts do that they seem to go on a rampage, grabbing Ireland then Wales and then booting English off the Brittish Isles), Mongols destroy Russians and at times (namely if Mongols appear south of the Caspian sea) Byzantines destroy Turks (usually they just sit it out for most of the games, with Byzantines occasionally claiming some stuff on Asia Minor, then being beaten back by the Turks, only to conquer some two-three provinces again).

Unfortunately, I don't have M2TW anymore (damn dog), so I can't take pics...

**Kadagar_AV** · 10-18-2008, 08:36

It happens from time to time, but no nation really builds a massive empire like in MTW1 (remember the Moors?).

**oz_wwjd** · 10-18-2008, 10:43

In my experience the AI seems to concentrate on beating up the players as it seems to regard thewm as the greatest threat. hell as the byzzies,as one time I had the venetians,russians,egyptians,mongols and the hungarians bent to trying to destroy me..

**Noncommunist** · 10-19-2008, 00:03

Originally Posted by GMaximus

Unfortunately, I don't have M2TW anymore (damn dog), so I can't take pics...

How did that happen?

**Ramses II CP** · 10-19-2008, 02:13

In terms of effective aggression the vanilla AI scores a zero. If it somehow manages to take a province from you it's probably only because you left it entirely undefended, and if it does muster the will to attack it will generally do so halfheartedly, for about two turns, and then sit back and wait to be destroyed.

There are pretty reliable wars that break out between factions in most games, but they rarely reach any kind of conclusion. If you can get the Pope to start on a tear he wipes factions out pretty well, but for the rest, pfft. Pathetic.

**Nebuchadnezzar** · 10-20-2008, 05:13

Although as thick as two short planks its aggressive enough to send out its lone Faction Leader to to seek out and beseige halfstack settlements.

**GMaximus** · 10-20-2008, 20:32

Originally Posted by Noncommunist

How did that happen?

I made the mistake of leaving my M2TW CD out of the box on the PC table one morning, only to find out after returning from school that my dog knows how to get on it.

Needless to say, my PC didn't like those bite marks at all...