how much do macadonians kick tail!!!!

[gardibolt]

EDIT: (I should have said who I was responding to)

I have never, ever, had the AI do anything but just sit there unless I attack them first. If I did this I would lose every single battle on the timer. --Gardibolt


hmm... wondering what game you are playing . The AI will always come to you if they are attacking. What I mean is that if thier army attacks yours and starts the battle they will always come to you. If you are on the attack however a different strategy is needed since they will indeed wait for you to come to them.

Ah, I see where the miscommunication came in. I'm too aggressive; I always attack the AI before it can attack me. So I wouldn't ever see it do anything but sit and wait.

[pezhetairoi]

Some factions are more suited for defensive battles... the HA factions, of course, are definitely in this category. Usually when the enemy sallies, I already have 3 rams. So if they stop coming out, I will go to them. But of course, if this happens to be a last-turn sally, then the enemy will keep rushing out at you until they are dead or the cause is lost anyway. Yummy.

[Deus ret.]

then the enemy will keep rushing out at you until they are dead or the cause is lost anyway. Yummy.

Will they? I have had sally battles in which the enemy decides so stop sending out victims (=troops) after maybe half of their army is dead, this is what I described above. So e.g. if you have a cav-only army, you're screwed if you aren't fast enough to take the gate (of wooden walls). The problem is that you have to retreat in this case and re-start siegeing since there is no battle time which could run out. dead end, that one.