The most stupidest thing you ever saw the AI doing

[The Stranger]

yup lets bring it on. every time you see sumthing good enough for this thread post it

[Mikeus Caesar]

How about...attempting to actually play? The AI has never done anything clever, so obviously this is just going to get packed up with people's descriptions of their entire campaigns.

[Brutus]

Hmmm, well, an outstanding example for me would be the time when I put 2 exactly the same Roman armies against each other in custom battle. Instead of advancing in a straight line, my opponents kept wandering from the right to the left and back, constantly exposing their flanks to me. Result: I lost only about 5% of my men, the AI all of them...

[Atreides]

Any?

No there NOT always stupid.

But the good old 'charge the general into a phalanx' is nice.

Even more cool was a defence stand of me with a lot of bowman and slingers. The all went for it. When they where finally there they decided victory wasn't an option. So they turned their back and run. Very clever not only was 1/3 of their army killed now I got a very very large cav in their back.

So that was a 10 killed of me against hundreds of all players actually almost an entire (large) army.

[Slug For A Butt]

Yup, Mikeus. I agree, Most things the AI does aren't too clever. So this is an open invitation to people to spam the thread with things that aren't a) interesting b) unusual c) human-like in their sophistication.

Gotta say EU that in the last few threads that you have started, it just seems like you are out to score cheap shots against the devs of a game you professs to like. Such as the routing units thread, just chill man.
Seems like you feel too big for the game, if thats the case, just play another one. Don't spend all your time flaming a game that people here enjoy, thats the only reason we are here. You dont make constructive criticism, you are just being plain negative.

So the game isn't human-like in its playing? I agree, so go back to MTW which isn't perfect either, take off your rose tinted spectacles and play that which you obviously prefer. 5 years ago I'm sure we'd have found you in those forums complaining too.

All I'm saying is that constructive criticism is good, but you are just flaming the game for the sake of it.

[professorspatula]

The AI is perfect, EVERYONE STOP COMPLAINING.

[Dutch_guy]

well really hte colosseum is starting to fill up with the ;;I hate threads '' ) see the sticky at the top of colosseum ) but this I don't really classify as a bash thread.

It's not a praise RTW thread either , but there have been other far wors rant threads, search the forums and you shall find them .

I don't usually participate in these thread, I know the game has flaws, and it has been said lot's and lot's of times before so I just figure why bother.

ANd thread like these do get your post count up

[Viking]

No, this is no bash thread, more like a competition.

I think there has been a thread like this before, posted by MC. Can`t find it though

[Mongoose]

There should be one "This AI SUCKS!" thread and no others. One is fine but i can't stand it when there are 10 of them.

Back to the subject...


It walked my army into a wall...then the arrows came...the gates of the city i was attacking opened...it sent it's commander by himself...the rest of the army walked into a wall and was killed by arrows.


2000 reinforcements went in; 400 came out. I lost a 10 start commander too. They killed maybe 200* gauls.


i took the city any way though...

*200 hundred at the most. It was probably closer to 50-100.

[The Stranger]

How about...attempting to actually play? The AI has never done anything clever, so obviously this is just going to get packed up with people's descriptions of their entire campaigns.

that's why i said the most stupidest. you got stupid, more stupid and extremely stupid. now thats what i wanna hear. just choose one thing or go to the most cleaverest thing you ever saw the AI doing thread

[The Stranger]

the most stupidest thing i ever saw the AI doing wasnt really the AI it was my army not obeying my orders. those stupid suckers just walked into the damn water and drowned. half an elite army lost. i still hate RTW for that.

[Revelation]

Wow, I didn't realise there was a problem with the AI....
I must of missed the 100 or so other threads on the subject.
Talk about done to death
Usually i'm up for a good "AI is sadly lacking" debate, but seems i'm all AI'd out.
sigh.......

[The Stranger]

eh this isnt a debate but kinda an contest

[antisocialmunky]

Wow, I didn't realise there was a problem with the AI....
I must of missed the 100 or so other threads on the subject.
Talk about done to death
Usually i'm up for a good "AI is sadly lacking" debate, but seems i'm all AI'd out.
sigh.......

I'm laughing at the irony that your name is Revelation.

[nee]

turning their backs on my phalanx?

[professorspatula]

I saw a new bit of AI stupidity the other day.

I set up a silly custom battle. Loads of scorpions, repeating ballistae and normal ballistae on a steep hill. The AI had 2 units of Urban Cohorts. The Urban Cohorts had to climb down a steep hill, then climb up to the steep hill where my artillery was. The result: a long journey where they were getting slaughtered and knocked miles backwards before even getting close to my men. One unit decided the only course of action to take was to form a Testudo and stand there and absorb the lethal bolts. Standing still in tight formation? Genius. I had them flung 40 feet back in the air within seconds.

The other Urban cohort engaged one of my ballista units, but the general was speared by a bolt and knocked at least 100 yards away, where he picked himself up, dusted down his clothes and rejoined the battle. Quite how he survived the initial bolt is beyond me, but anyway, having one of his units form the easiest possible formation to destroy with artillery is the stupidest thing I've seen in a long time.

[Shadar]

the stupidest thing i've ever seen the AI do was in RTR... Parthians decided to assault my stone-walled town... At this stage, i had nothing but two units of basic pikemen and 1 general's unit. they capture the walls with a unit of infantry, which they leave outside with the other infantry unit, and then the cavalry rush to the centre of my town. They decide to rush their horse archers to the FRONT of my phalanx troops (who were at the entrance of the plaza), they shoot a few volleys of arrows before rushing madly at the spears and piling dead bodies up. My rear got attacked by cataphracts who had sneaked behind, who charged my general's rear (they got massacred nonetheless). All was chaos. by then the much depleted pikemen had turned around and were attacking the cataphracts.. they broke around this time though and the cataphracts proceeded to massacre them all. although by this time the cataphracts were almost all dead anyways.

Result: 1 maximum size Parthian army lost ~90% of its horsemen. my losses - 2 levy pikemen and 1 general's unit (not replaceable, but still satisfactory to have worn down an attacking army so much i rolled over them when i took the town back...)

[Armandus]

1 - One time, im attacking a city, and the computer make to attack me. Well, i run, after my army be almost crushed,only left archers and cavalary, and only my general without bodyguards, and as always, i killed the enemy general and all of yours cavalary. He has left only 8 powerful phalanx, and i have started to killed one by one (he started to persuit me, and spread out). When stay some units, i take the walls (i have built 2 towers), and captured all gates. The computer stay out of your onw city, and trying to back inside. He died simple by the arrows and by the oil.

2 - When the computer attacks, i put the archers (or skimirshes) in front. The computer always send his cavalary and his archers(archers!!?) to pursuit my archers. Well, i retreat my archers between my phalanx (or any else footman), and the cavalary and archers come straight to death.

3 - its nothing more annoying than friendly fire. In the defense of a bridge, i have lost 180 mens, but 50 healed. The computer have killed 5, the rest was my archers. This was the extreme, but he does this always.

But, not everything was stupid. I really hate when he has archer cavalary and chariots archers. Normally, he wont attack me, just stay away and firing arrows.

[Megas Alexandros]

I understand that weak AI also origins out of low processor free-time.

However, can this silly thing somehow be avoided:

My best son was getting a sun-tan in Athens, with 2 Hoplita units. It was in the beginning. Anyway, a Greek army out of nowhere laid a siege on Athens. They had around 300 men in the army. No problem here - I thought - I ushered my 600 men army from Corinth and attacked the intruders, meanwhile the small force inside Athens also sallied. - what an easy victory we will have now, I thought -

Okay, the battle begins, and I am surprised that the little sallying force is commanded by the AI. Damn, I said. I was at the foot of the hill with the grand army, the Greeks halfway up, and the my son's little host at the top. And they marched down against the Greeks! I ordered all of my troops to rush up the hill in a forced march, but they could not do anything before my son was laying dead among the healp of his fellow guards.

All right, one heir less. I performed a heroic victory btw, so Athens was free again. However, next round there came an other Greek army, with my other heir in Athens, and the grand army back in Corinth....
All I could do was to save the game and replay the siege-lifting battle until my only heir survived...

Is there any way to stop the besieged army to do this stupid thing in?