Quote Originally Posted by R'as al Ghul
The AI that you describe would certainly be better than Rome's.
How can I experience that right now? I'm asking because the unscripted battles I've tried with the Gold demo are all the same. The AI approaches my line in a somewhat unorderly fashion, deploys a line or two but fails to adjust its angle to mine and then it waits for me to do something. If I don't it waits. When I do charge it with Cav in the rear it seems surprised and when I move my line closer it will send single units to counter, not the whole line.
Of course this is only a demo and obviously has the bug that Palamedes described in his blog but I can't see an AI that is promising in any way.

R'as
Hmm... in my case I've played a lot of unscripted battles and the only time I've seen an army just stand there waiting was in a three way battle when I was already bitterly engaged with the HRE and the French were waiting on the wings a few hundred yards away. Once I had beaten back the HRE but but before I could get my line into any kind of order the French launched a concerted assault, advancing with pikemen in good order and cavalry hunting down my weaker units that had become isolated in their first melee. With my army in no kind of order and already exhausted it was crushed.
Now that sounds promising to me.