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Having been in the gaming trenches since the beginning of the Total War fiasco, I have always lived in the hope that someday someway they would get it right.
The AI and tactics in this series has reached the pinnacle of stupidity. a child with only a batch o toy soldiers could run a battle better than the AI of NTW.
I have been playing war games since the beginning with a game called UMS the War College all of the shooter games ie Medal of Honor Battlefield and the like, but have never been so disappointed as I have been with last two Empire games.
My finest example of this is a cavalry charge. When deployed and charging a 30 mph a horse may flich but the chances are he is going to crash in to the front line of his objective and die doing it. The cavalry charge in NTW runs up to the line and stops and looks at it. The only way to get a real charge is to set the line to a point far beyond the line of attack to enable the unit to at least attempt to pass through it.
Artillery or lack of command. Set the units to NOT ire at will Give them a specific target to bombard. Don't wait for it it's not going to happen the units pick out the target they want to shoot and have at it.
Somebody please learn how to program the correct things in to the AI
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