Quote Originally Posted by Polemists View Post
This all goes back to the AI and if it's as good as they say.

For example I remeber when the bandited around the



It sounded cool, it sounded awesome, and when you saw it in game you went "OOOooooo".

Then though you did it, and despite the promise of better relations, and new trade, and a stronger empire, you got blockaded in one turn :P

It was about as useful as allying yourself with egypt in Rome total war,

"So egypt, we are allies right, no attacks this turn?" "Of course Carthage, we would never attack you.....as long as Numidia is there."

or the marriages with Frances princess with five hearts early on for heirs only to later realize France attacks everyone.

Some smart Ai in diplomacy is key, there is one screenshot of a diplomatic screen in one of the early videos, but sadly I am not skilled enough to enlarge it and make it non blurry enough to read.

Of course we could see if the AI is any better in battle at least

if we had

A demo
Well CA have been making a really big fuss over the AI this time around, so I think we can be hopeful that it has seen at least some improvement. I'll be happy if it ends up as good as the AI in Medieval or Shogun. But they might even surpass that. (Hides behind a sofa from the legions of Shogun fans who now want to kill me.)