Quote Originally Posted by Cheetah View Post
Fact is that the AI has fairly decent priorities when it comes picking a target for a charge. For example I noticed that native lancers always charge the moving units (even if it is on the other flank) and not the stationary ones (ofc facing the lancers). Also lancers avoid pikemen at all cost (which ofc can be exploited by the player). So just because an experinced player can outsmart the AI it does not mean that the AI is utterly dumb.
The real test would be letting someone fight the AI who never seen a TW battle. Actually, IIRC someone did that with the vanilla game and the player was trashed in all battles.
I agree here; The AI has some decent basic tactics down, that most TW players know how to deal with/exploit, or at the very least predict. Most of my friends don't play this game (because of the system requirements, no surprise there), but when they do play a battle unsupervised, it usually ends very badly.