CA: This has got to STOP! (AI Control is simpley a source of Frustration)

[aw89]

i think the only tactic's i've seen is when playing against the macedons, the sendt 2 units of light lancer on each side to make my cav and general charge, worked first time, not second but its a bugger. do they want to kill my cav or are they after my inf? mmmm

OR BOTH! daaaaaa! but thats it, only tactic seen....

[Bob the Insane]

Come to think of it the only factions I have seen with appropriate tactics are the Barbarians, especially the Gauls... They will have a main line of infantry, quite shallow and cavalry on each wing... This will moving in for a head on attack attempting to envelop you troops with the cavalry making a flanking attack...

AI romans appear to use the "one big lump" or "viking horde" tactics (with suicide cavalry) and the greek cultures go for more suicide cavalry with "knackered phalanx troops trying to keep up"...

The Egyptians work well to but primarily because of their mystically "well hard" troops and desert bonuses...

Put the AI on the defensive and give it a little time and it will form up well, and if you place it in a siege assault it knows what it has to do and attacks aggressively (but gets confused if you destroy it's siege equipment)...

But when attacking in the open field, especially when using re-enforcements it all seems to end up being a big punch up in the middle of the field or lots of individual units chasing each other around...

[Red Harvest]

Come to think of it the only factions I have seen with appropriate tactics are the Barbarians, especially the Gauls... They will have a main line of infantry, quite shallow and cavalry on each wing... This will moving in for a head on attack attempting to envelop you troops with the cavalry making a flanking attack...

AI romans appear to use the "one big lump" or "viking horde" tactics (with suicide cavalry) and the greek cultures go for more suicide cavalry with "knackered phalanx troops trying to keep up"...

Astute comments. That is what I've seen as well. The Gauls fight better than most others because they deploy a proper line and attack en masse--a pity they don't have better troops with which to do so.

It is too bad the Roman armies don't stay more ordered on attack. I frequently watch the velites come charging headlong into my heavy infantry lines??? Now, having a central mass of hastati/principes trying to batter down the center makes some historical sense and the AI does like to try this...but the overall deployment and failure to guard the wings does not work.

The Greeks like to send out their light cav piecemeal, two or three or four units charging at a time in wedge formation. I can whip them in VH by ganging up on them even when they vastly outnumber me in cav.

[Puzz3D]

With the tactical AI deficiencies impacting how I move armies on the strategic map, I think it's time to play the campaign with all the battles auto-resolved.