General Cam

[Gaius Sempronius Gracchus]

Oh yes, it's an excellent way to deplete your troop numbers. You know, for those battles where you just have too many soldiers... Anyway, to activate the AI you just have to click one of the buttons on the right when you have units grouped (don't remember the exact button, you'll have to search).

Ha ha...very true. Playing on General cam though, it's a matter of the lesser of two evils.... some I have under AI "assistance" and others I hold in reserve. There's nothing as annoying as finding one of your units being torn asunder while another stands close by chatting idly among themselves.

As I said, it makes initial deployment and your own positioning paramount. It also makes one a lot more..... careful about the battles you fight.

I've seriously considered it to make the game more challenging...

But the problem is I love to watch epic battles unfold from 'up top' and sometimes like to take screenies of epic moments...

So I really do want more challenging gameplay, but I don't want to sacrifice being able to enjoy watching epic battles unfold from a good vantage point...

It's a pity there's no way of recording them, because I know what you mean - there's a great deal of pleasure in watching a battle unfold. (It would also help in understanding what went wrong when you find your armies routing all over the field, to try and avoid a similar mistake again...)

I know that Historical Battles can be recorded, so... how hard would it be to implement that in Campaign Battles?

Indeed, try it with a Sweboz army in the middle of a forest. Awesome fun.

I usually play as one of the Gallic factions and I find forest battles are great (most of the time) if one is doing the ambushing. Provided you can neutralise their cavalry units (and so utilise your own with relative impunity), have plenty of strong heavy infantry and good missile troops (slingers and archers) hiding, then just draw the enemy in..... a beautiful way of annhialating armies - particularly Roman ones

However, if I find myself ambushed in the woods.... I just try and get the hell out as quickly as possible, with as many of my troops as possible