Potential recruitment pool abuse

[Orb]

Just thinking, if the recruitment pool isn't used properly by the AI (i.e. they drain all they can in one turn always, using as much money as possible) - then couldn't you send them a huge amount of money and let them implode from the income. This would be a problem if the AI tried to extort money from a human by invading when said human was vulnerable, then suffered so badly from economic problems that the human walked over it.

Just a thought...

[Midnight]

I think that a lot will hinge on how the AI deals with recruitment pools.

I think the biggest problem may be that it (rightly so) creates effective field armies, and so city battles are fought vs peasants en masse. Of course, if it holds back decent troops to garrison its cities, it then faces being walked all over by the player in the field.

Hopefully it'll asses what it needs where (empire-wide), and keep decent garrisons in cities it considers to be potentially at risk, while those it deems secure can have a minimal troop presence, freeing other units to head out.

It'll be interesting to see exactly what the AI's prioritising, and where (and if different factions prioritise different things, eg some defensive, some recklessly aggressive, some balanced, etc).

[hoetje]

It's a bit off topic,but what I fear is that the A.I. will always do the same like in rtw : gauls fall for julii,scipii always take carthage etc.
I hope i won't see the English taking over France or vice versa all the time...

[Midnight]

I hear you! At least in MTW, France usually took out England, Spain usually handed it to the Almohads, but not always. The three-way war in the middle east (Egyptian, Turk, Byz) could go anybody's way. I hope this has been carried over to M2TW.

The AI... so much rests on it...

[sunsmountain]

Aye, the recruitment pool faces a lot of potential abuse, but so do crusades. Did you know that crusade armies travel twice as fast, can recruit religious troops (like mercs) and have no upkeep?

No upkeep. Sounds like a dream. But if you don't move the crusade, soldiers will start to desert. But how can you end it? Hopefully not to easy, you can park armies a little too easily this way.

[Orb]

I predict a second era of the dreaded Spanish crusade rush.