or maybe he just calls his cavalry lancers cos he feels like it....

as to the AI ive seen some promising things in my recent game as spain on VH/H

it was a campaign i started b4 the patch, when i loaded in after my first turn i had 3 different peace treaties offered. all from factions i had been winning against previously. the only faction which wont offer me peace and wont accept my peace treaties was the Italian states and this was because I abandoned my Italian provinces to take africa from barbary.

also on my first turn the half stack of morocco rebels which had been sitting doing nothing moved on my town which only had 2 units of militia in it and took it back. this stack had been inactive for 10+ turns doing nothing just sitting fortified with only those 2 units of militia in the town 1 turn away (and no town watch or w/e)

aside from this the AI is being much more active. GB just launched an naval invasion of France, my protectorate New Spain is blockading ports and attacking the native indians in america. Prussia is carving up Europe although most of the minors are still alive. i havnt had any mindless DoW on me since the patch. even the pirates are more actively blocking ports.

your post is a beautiful and well written expression of everything I think is gimped about this game

heres a different angle
they stupidly declared a war they were ill prepared for because of the CAIs border war diplomacy model - they didnt ally with each ohter before declaring war

having declared war they passively sit in their city - rather than some sort of combined alliance attack

The resulting milk run was due to AI predictable flank with cav manouver, General-seeking artillary, and generally gimped battle AI cause its units to flounder around like jellyfish

Then they sued for peace... and you accepted !! why? they were kaput .. do you want to have to replay this in a few turns when they senselessly declare war again.

Its not exactly the description of a challenging battle

I guess its ok if your satisfied playing out a game of unchallenging repetitive battles with the game end already a forgone conclusion

but that would bore me to tears
This is an extremely negative view on his post.

1. why is the DoW stupid, france isnt much more powerful than the minors at the start, france starts with like 2? and there is probably an inbuilt dislike between the 2 nations which factors in too.

2. they sit in their city because the Ai is designed to not abandon its cities completely ALSO he stated he immediately besieged it, ie the AI didnt have a chance to go attack him.

3. the fact that they sued for peace instead of dying horribly is a good thing, that he choose to accept it is up to him and no they wont break the alliance in a few turns and DoW him.


i agree with AussieGiant it just goes to show that u cant please everyone, the new patch is a great improvement in a lot of peoples eyes but you cant please everyone.

All in all it seems much improved so im quite happy.

cheers Knoddy