Royal Scythian Campaign

[Slaists]

glad we could help ;) I hate the agent spam... they were literally wrecking my armies

The AI agents become a non-issue if you hide your armies in ambush stance wherever you go. Sure, makes it a bit slower to move around, but at least, you don't get poisoned and then attacked.

On top of that, you having the ambush stance on results in the AI moving around in forced march stance like there is no tomorrow. 95% of the field battles turn into ambush battles in your favor.

The thing with the forced march stance against your ambush stance is that if your ambush fails, the AI army stops since it has discovered you and ends up captured within your sphere of influence.

Since the AI cannot do anything about the stupid stance for a turn (cannot get out of it, cannot attack while it is active) it gives you a free ambush on your turn.

This could probably seen as an exploit. But, at least on legendary difficulty (+ to AI's morale and other goodies), the AI probably has an advantage in an ambush situation since it immediately sees even your hidden units. So, I just set up for a normal field battle in most of these ambushes.