I have been playing with bi.exe for a few months and I like it. Night battles, swimming, retraining, shield wall and naval invasions have made the game just that much more fun, and I haven't had a ctd since swapping over, I don't have alex so I've obviously never tried it.

Quote Originally Posted by Maksimus View Post
But about the naval proof, its on the Thread, I never saw BI ever massing up 15+ units in ship and sale away to siege or attack or take a city.
What usually happens is the AI will send over 5-10 units and then they suck up all the mercs in the area. The first time this happened to me I was playing as rome and carthage sent over a FM, an elephant, half a dozen heavies and a few skirmishers, then hired all the mercs in sicily and attacked. I suddenly had a full stack of carthies in sicily and all my armies were in the north fighting the gauls. Believe you me, they were a hectic few years.

Quote Originally Posted by fleaza View Post
the problem with BI is that shield wall is so incredibly strong its not funny. i had 2 units of sacred band defeat 2000 units on a bridge with shield wall on. its better to reduce unit spacing and radius instead of using shield wall.
I have given myself a house rule that I may only use the shield wall when defending a seige since it is so strong, I implemented this house rule the day I broke a unit of pezhetairoi from the front with a unit of pedites only losing half a dozen men.