Number of Battles and Strategic AI

[The_Emperor]

I have had some very large scale battles in the game, so I do not know what you are on about. One was against a full Gallic army (that had Naked fanatics and druids and swordsmen) that tried to besiege a settlement of mine that was taken form them years before (it only had wooden walls).

I sallied and opened the gate, the Gauls rushed for it and straight into a waiting Phalanx of Merc Hoplites backed up by Hastaati, My General sallied from a side gate with some cavalry and rode around and charged into the rear of the mob of Gauls piled up around the Gate.

I only had around 700 men but I killed over 1500 Gauls in the ensuing chaos and mass-rout, they won't try that again in a hurry!

But the one thing that really gets on my nerves is how the AI builds up seemingly limitless fleets while I am struggling to pump out a navy and manage my upkeep costs...

My Brutii Campaign I have just walked over Macedon, and now I am fighting the Greeks again. They only have Sparta, that city in Asia minor and Rhodes, and a territory in Thrace, yet somehow the sea lanes are swamped by full stacks of fleets!!

Two family members (and their armies) were killed when their fleets were sunk (wich no hope of escape, because they got caught between stacks)... My revenge shall be brutal.