Does the ai always end up like this in late game

**KingKnudthebloodthirsty** · 01-21-2009, 22:08

I found this screenie on HG and i was wondering, does the ai, by lategame, always builds empires? And, what version does the ai does this on? I never made it to turn 189 so i am not sure.

[img=https://img249.imageshack.us/img249/1586/m2twscreeniece7.th.jpg]

**Dead Guy** · 01-21-2009, 22:21

For me things like that are pretty rare. It has happened some times, in my latest campaign the egyptians started spreading really far. More often than not it seems the AI screws up after a while and loses everything.

**KingKnudthebloodthirsty** · 01-21-2009, 22:45

does it matter what version you are using, such as 1.0 1.1 or 1.2?

**Monsieur Alphonse** · 01-21-2009, 23:15

I play version 1.3 which is 1.2 with some extra update to make the multi player game compatible with Kingdoms. If you don't blitz the map you will find that some factions are very good in creating empires. Egypt usually steamrolls the Middle East. Either Hungary or Poland end up in Central Europe. The Danes are great empire builders and one of the Italian factions always ends with an empire. France, the HRE and the Turks usually grow a little but lose it in the middle to late game because every body hates Germans, French and Turks. It is usually the human player that disturbs the building of AI controlled empires.

**Lancome** · 01-22-2009, 00:25

Originally Posted by Monsieur Alphonse

I play version 1.3 which is 1.2 with some extra update to make the multi player game compatible with Kingdoms. If you don't blitz the map you will find that some factions are very good in creating empires. Egypt usually steamrolls the Middle East. Either Hungary or Poland end up in Central Europe. The Danes are great empire builders and one of the Italian factions always ends with an empire. France, the HRE and the Turks usually grow a little but lose it in the middle to late game because every body hates Germans, French and Turks. It is usually the human player that disturbs the building of AI controlled empires.

Yep... but its no fun once you reach your late game period. Every other faction cant produce Armies to stand against our Kalashnikov's & Panzers. Well, with the exception of the timurids.

**pevergreen** · 01-23-2009, 08:49

The AI always has, and always will create empires. I used to turn fog of war off in RTW to watch the selucids carve a bloody empire, or be taken out. You can watch the progress, generally one faction in each area wins. The idea is to give the player something to fight at the end of the game, but to lose to the player. So the player has fun, and plays again! And buys the next product etc

**Monk** · 01-23-2009, 09:21

Originally Posted by pevergreen

The AI always has, and always will create empires. I used to turn fog of war off in RTW to watch the selucids carve a bloody empire, or be taken out. You can watch the progress, generally one faction in each area wins. The idea is to give the player something to fight at the end of the game, but to lose to the player. So the player has fun, and plays again! And buys the next product etc

There was some command that let you skip forward in MTW and let the AI take control of your faction. If you turned off fog of war it was like watching one of those super fast camera shots of a high-way, watching empires rise and fall, kingdoms emerge, die out, grow and split in civil war. It was really cool. I think M2TW has a command like that too, but whatever faction you choose doesnt get taken over by the AI.