No one attacks me...so far.

[Ibrahim]

I read quite a few posts of people who claim that they face harder opponents who attack with huge armies.

In my campaign as KH I only had to fight two big armies Mak. and Epeiros and even them they were not full stacks.

With unit size at huge, is it so difficult for the AI to find the manpower, or is it something else?
I'm looking forward to feedback from anyone but more from the seasoned EB commanders.

Thanks!

hope I can fullfill my obligation here: yeah, huge unit sizes can delay the real action (Romani and Steppe aside), for a much longer time. the reason is because, while the units get bigger, the cities do not grow correspondingly so, so armies become a huge drain on the population, and consequently, there are fewer armies in the begining*. it does heat up after a while though. even then though, its arguably easier to bring a faction down, since (army resource wise), deporting or exterminating the population will hit the ilitary harder. at least with my Vestatio technique (the most blasphemous approach to war since Sherman )

I myself normally play on large, not huge-my computer is more likely to CTD with Huge, though I have made improvements to the operation of the machinery.


*it doesn't help the AI that it is constantly training boatloads of men, in comparison to most human players.

[Ludens]

The A.I. actually gets part of their population replenished, so don't expect them to run out of population as fast as you do. This feature was implemented because the vanilla A.I. did not take population into account and would deplete smaller towns rather than allow them to grow.

[paleologos]

They always cheat cheat cheat!

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

The A.I. actually gets part of their population replenished, so don't expect them to run out of population as fast as you do. This feature was implemented because the vanilla A.I. did not take population into account and would deplete smaller towns rather than allow them to grow.

Does the replenish population script actually take account of what unit size you're using, Normal, Large or Huge? Or does it just assume you're on Normal size?

[Mediolanicus]

AFAIK the script adds 200 men to a city per unit recruited.

So not playing on huge makes AI city grow like mad.
Problems may arise when the AI recruits nothing but units with 240 men in it.