Suicidal Stupid AI

**chenkai11** · 12-17-2008, 01:46

Try lower the campaign difficulty, that might help.

**Praetor Diego** · 12-17-2008, 02:08

Using forced diplomacy mod you can force the IA to accept a tribute from you, something like 100 mnai for 100 turns. The IA rarely attacks you while you are paying tribute. Anyway, as said theoldbelgian, its no foolproof, but will help a lot to keep peace for a while even with border factions.

**Connacht** · 12-18-2008, 01:25

If I am not wrong, AI doesn't attack players who have a too large empire (maybe it is hardcoded to do the only smart thing they do just in this cases, when its obvious that your enemy is too strong to fight against).
In EB however I also noticed that some factions rarely attacks, for instance the Getai, or attack only in order to control certain provinces and no more else.

**Cullhwch** · 12-18-2008, 01:41

Nope, that isn't true. When I took over the entire map with the Aedui, the idiots in charge of the Seleucid Empire attacked me (as an ally, no less!) when I had about 120 provinces. They were then invaded from four different directions and completely annihilated.

**Connacht** · 12-18-2008, 14:31

Well, in my Seleucid campaign I control the whole Mediterranean area and the lands from Babylon to the Indus and nobody (except for the Lusotannans) dares to get an army nearby my lands. So I thought that maybe the AI thinks that I'm too strong for a war, unless a big alliance is formed against me (but the second strongest power are the Aedui who are my allies).

**Celtic_Punk** · 12-20-2008, 07:13

If you want gripping diplomacy play Hearts of Iron II... i wish they'd take that map and that diplomacy, and put it into TW. best of both worlds!

**Cullhwch** · 12-20-2008, 07:19

I really think that it's only about how well-garrisoned your border cities are. If you have 5x the military strength of another faction and 10 provinces that border theirs, the AI will see one poorly-garrisoned city as a worthwhile target and besiege it. It will do this even if you have ten or so full stacks within easy marching distance of all of its cities. It's just mindblowingly stupid in this respect, and there is nothing you can do about it save for keeping your borders well-fortified.