Alexander first impressions

**Jambo** · 06-21-2006, 13:09

A good indication of whether there has been any improvement made to the AI in Alexander would be to find out whether or not the large siege towers are still bug-ridden when attacking large stone walls? i.e. do the troops still sometimes fail to climb to the wall and instead mill about the bottom of the siege tower as they do in the most recent RTW patch (1.5)?

**phred** · 06-21-2006, 14:59

Here are some screenshots. I'll post more after work. I've already fought this battle(heroic victory), but I didn't take any screenshots. I'll fight it again and take some more shots.

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**econ21** · 06-21-2006, 21:11

Wow, you're playing aggressively, phred, attacking three stacks! What difficulty are you playing on? I'm just trying M/M to see how it plays, but even so I'm also meeting multiple large AI stacks.

**Mount Suribachi** · 06-21-2006, 21:26

Alexander the Butcher?

**phred** · 06-21-2006, 22:16

This is on M/M. Alexander's command stars and virtues combined with veteran units make for a formidable army. I haven't been limiting re-training and this is the core army that started in Macedon. I've been merging, retraining or resupplying this army since I started and they've taken every province (except for 4 or 5) that were off the beaten path, so they have a lot of experience.

As for "Alexander the Butcher" - that's from chasing down routing units after the battle's over. As soon as I noticed "the Butcher," I stopped chasing routing units and it soon changed to "Alexander the Brave."

**phred** · 06-22-2006, 04:04

Here are some battle shots.

enemy army no. 1

enemy army no. 2

enemy army no. 3

Alexander

Phalangists

the battle starts

I move my line forward

I missed taking pictures for a while
here's the aftermath

**Mooks** · 06-22-2006, 05:47

LOL alexander has a catamite vice. Does anyone know what that is? Its a boy that has sexual relationships with a man, in other words a pevert

. I know alexander was a homosexual but thats stretching it...

Is the AI dumb though? I notice for every casuality you have theirs 10+ enemy casualties. The morale thing can be modded though cant it?