What's the smartest/coolest thing your AI has done?

**Mikeus Caesar** · 06-27-2005, 15:48

I though it would be a great idea to repeat the mistakes Quintus Varus by marching one of my best armies across the Rhine, but this time i would win. So there i was, in a forest under attack from germans. I thought i would win, as they were flinging all the men at my front, but i didn't notice the two Berserker units creeping up on either side because i was too occupied with their main forces. Wack, the two units of Berserkers sliced through the ranks, killing quite a few men, and lowering their morale. The AI almost won!

**Kagemusha** · 06-27-2005, 16:22

If nothing else the AI can really produce ships.If someone would like to fallow my leed and turn into raging lunatic.Try clearing the seas from enemy ships.

**mfberg** · 06-27-2005, 17:29

With the timer off and me defending in a failed ambush the AI sat on the other side of the river and just waited. Either I charge into the larger Gaul units and their 3 supporting cav with my hastati or I retreat all my men and lose, or just end battle, but there is no retreat button. I got slaughtered moving my army across the ford.

mfberg

**Viking** · 06-27-2005, 17:52

What's the smartest/coolest thing your AI has done?

Now that would be really cool; an AI that learned and developed the more you played against it. No complains about bad AI then

Back on topic, can`t I remeber the smartest thing the AI has done. But it certainly knows how to use forts properly like blokcading narrow passes, and bridges.

**CMcMahon** · 06-27-2005, 23:23

Originally Posted by mfberg

just end battle, but there is no retreat button

You couldn't just hit "w" to withdraw?

**mfberg** · 06-28-2005, 14:52

Originally Posted by CMcMahon

You couldn't just hit "w" to withdraw?

It was a battle to the death for my units, as one had just used up all of its movement points.

**bubbanator** · 06-28-2005, 01:57

Originally Posted by kagemusha

If nothing else the AI can really produce ships.If someone would like to fallow my leed and turn into raging lunatic.Try clearing the seas from enemy ships.

I did that one time as the Scipii. The Egyptians had just blockaded one of my ports. I was in Greece still so my only settlement near them was Swia. I had no real army there so I figured that I would blockade them into submission. To make a long story short, it took many, many years to defeat the last fleet. They had a very strong navy when they attacked so I had to pump out some Quinquiremes and Deceres to defeat them.

Anyways, one time, the I was the Julii and was making my long awaited invasion of Britian. I sent an full stack army led by my faction heir to take thier capital and move on from there. I made my landing and laid siege to the city. It had a half stack army so I wasn't worried about it. The next turn, I was attacked by a full stack army that had come out of the woods. I decided I would take out the main threat first. This was a bad idea considering that I could have just taken the town square and won.

I organized my troops and began marching toward the ill-equipped British troops. I was not worried about the forces inside the city because they usualy just sit there or walk towards me after a while.

My line hit theirs and I was making short work of them. I had taken my cavalry around the flanks to charge into the back of their line and break them.
All of a sudden, several groups of charriots charge into the back of *my* line. I figured that my princepes could hold them off so I sent my cavalry into the enemy line. All of a sudden, the center of my line broke and my whole line began to route. However my cavalry charge had broken their line too. I charged my remaining men at their charriots and their general was killed. I managed to rally some of my men and eventualy took the city. But it was a hollow victory. My faction heir had been killed in the fighting in the streets and my army was almost completely wiped out. The next turn, the city fell into revolt and went rebel. I took what was left of my army to one of their other settlements and pilliaged the land until the entire region was black.

Many years later, I came back with a larger army and exterminated all of their cities. I had avenged the deaths of my soldiers, but the scars of that loss stayed for years to come...