Quote Originally Posted by Slyspy
3) AI for sieges is useless. I've yet to see them assault a city. When defending the ybehave just as described above. They wander around the walls getting knackered and shot to ribbons. Once you are inside they retreat to the plaza. Once here they may send one unit out to confront you. Once they are dead the rest will sit there on the plaza in a shower of arrows doing nothing. I tried attacking a plaza held by heavy cavalry with just archers once and still they made no move to stop the arrows. They could have wiped out the archers easily but no they all died instead. Poor.
Weird. I've had the AI assault my cities many times. & on my assaults of their cities, I've seen the AI place archers on side streets to attack my forces heading for the central plaza. If I don't send cavalry against those units, they will eventually show up around behind the plaza, where I have to kill every unit in the plaza to reach them, & shower my forces with arrows.