Clever AI

**Jaeld** · 02-21-2009, 22:32

Yeah, I never think to take screenshots, sorry.

The light skirmishing type troops seem to be the ones with stake-laying abilities.

I tried a counter-battery war on the enemy artillery with my artillery once, and I wiped out their accompanying horses pretty quickly but the actual cannons were unscathed. Not sure if it was just the angle I happened to be at or what. Was much more effective to sneak my skirmishers up to the edge of the creek and fire across at the cannon crews. Drove them off pretty quickly.

**miniwally** · 02-21-2009, 22:36

So any of the units you get in the land battles able to lay down stakes?

**TB666** · 02-21-2009, 22:38

Originally Posted by miniwally

So any of the units you get in the land battles able to lay down stakes?

Only the light infantry I think.

**miniwally** · 02-21-2009, 22:43

Originally Posted by TB666

Only the light infantry I think.

dam i could've used that to help me at least i still won :D Do you know what level of difficulty the battles were on?

**Monk** · 02-21-2009, 22:44

Originally Posted by miniwally

dam i could've used that to help me at least i still won :D Do you know what level of difficulty the battles were on?

They are on normal, but you can edit the script files to make them harder.

edit:

Found the link to the post at Yuku, but I dunno how to change difficulty on Vista. I dont seem to have this directory.

Originally Posted by CA

c:\Documents and Settings\**your name **\Application Data\The Creative Assembly\EmpireDemo2\scripts\preferences.empire_script.txt

and change the value:

battle_difficulty

**Sheogorath** · 02-21-2009, 23:32

The AI seems a bit schizophrenic to me.

At one point in a battle I was playing with it, it lined up all of its line infantry to meet my main force advancing on its flank and started marching forward to attack me en masse.

Then suddenly it changed its mind and drew back all but three units, two of which stopped and one more of which advanced on me.

I felt kind of insulted, to be honest. It's like the AI wanted me to know it was going easy on me

Psychological warfare, maybe?

**ratbarf** · 02-21-2009, 23:40

Overall I wasn't that pleased with the AI from the battle, though the ambushing Long Rifles where rather cool. They never once moved their artillery to a better position to shoot my troops. Also, I had General Washington suicide charge my Dragoons all on his lonesome...

**quadalpha** · 02-22-2009, 00:03

In vista, you go to C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\[etc.] You will need to show hidden folders to see AppData.

The difference between Vista and XP is because Vista tries to control which parts of the hard drive applications can access a lot more and tricks the application into thinking that the "AppData" folder is the old "Application Data" folder.