Proof that the AI *does* retrain units in BI.exe

Niiiice... The best part of that is how all the units retain their previous experience levels, making them that much tougher when you ultimately do have to fight them... :)

You'll notice the town's population has also dropped like a stone... I suppose the AI must not get the special script-given population boosts it gets upon recruiting new units when it instead retrains old ones...

yeah... BI.exe did retrains, but not everyone believe it until this was screen-shooted
and they will retrain if the army was on the rest and not moving

more reason to ditch Alex-EB because Alex had somewhat passive campaign AI as well... that's why they retrain because they rarely moves at all

Originally Posted by Captain Trek

You'll notice the town's population has also dropped like a stone... I suppose the AI must not get the special script-given population boosts it gets upon recruiting new units when it instead retrains old ones...

Good catch, I hadn't seen that population drop! Your explanation makes sense to me.

I only noticed the retraining because I was watching those garrison unit strengths in order to time my attack. It helps that I'm in a campaign where I'm using lots of spies - so they can "persuade" other cities to throw off their overlords and return to their Hellenic roots :) Now that I've seen retraining happen once I'll look for it again.

Yet another good thing to add to BI.exe almost limit-less potential...

Originally Posted by Captain Trek

Niiiice... The best part of that is how all the units retain their previous experience levels, making them that much tougher when you ultimately do have to fight them... :)

You'll notice the town's population has also dropped like a stone... I suppose the AI must not get the special script-given population boosts it gets upon recruiting new units when it instead retrains old ones...

What campaign difficulty level were you running here? VH?

Doesnt that mean Rome.exe has this feature too?
I mean the last patch of BI and Vanilla came at the same time right? Only the features of units like swimming should be different?

Originally Posted by seienchin

Doesnt that mean Rome.exe has this feature too?
I mean the last patch of BI and Vanilla came at the same time right? Only the features of units like swimming should be different?

Vanilla-AI does retrain also. I have no screenshots to proof that but I see it sometimes.

I have seen Vanilla AI sea invasions (the spaniards invaded my island in the south of spain, can´t remember the name), and in EB too, using RTW only

~Jirisys (To the ships!)

One proof more that the EXE has not much influence on the KI. ^^

Amphibian landings depended on the activated "prefer naval invasions" for a faction. IIRC no matter wich exe. Well, i never bothered with taking screenshots for retraining, but perhaps it´s kind of another preference for BI and ALX exe. for the AI to retrain it´s units more often.

Originally Posted by Titus Marcellus Scato

What campaign difficulty level were you running here? VH?

No, this is a basic M/M campaign