Quote Originally Posted by Kadagar_AV
With AI I meant own unit reaction when you order them.

It just doesnt feel like they do what I tell them to. When I play custom games, I find myself quiting the battle before it ends out of boredom, something that has never EVER happened before...

I dont feel "in control" of my troops, I dont think it's fun to watch the fights.

I mean, I ran a testgame when I first got the gaem just to see the graphics. I took one unit of knights (me) and oen unit of peasents (computer).

I just wanted to watch the mayhem... You know, like in RTW.

Result when I pressed charge was: Knights strolled forward... stoped some yards away from target. The peasents strolled in and some 10 of them started fighting my knights. Some 3 min later the peasents had lost too many men and ran, my knights chased them to map edge but didnt really manage to kill the last ones off.

I had expected something like the scene from LOTR where the riders of Rohan charge the orc flank...

Instead I got a *yawn*
I think that you are just not used to the new way you have to control troops in M2TW. Charging is very different to RTW. When you give the order to charge with cavalry, the unit starts walking towards the enemy, then they lower their lances and speed up, then finally charge at full speed. This needs a considerable amount of room to get up to charge speed - if you just click to attack close to the enemy the cavalry will leisurely walk into combat.

For foot troops charging, they again start to walk towards the enemy, and then pause when they are close to them. At this point the front rank changes to a charge animation, and then charges forward. The rear ranks then follow. It seems quite difficult to pull off a successful charge with foot troops, especially against an enemy that is trying to charge you. I've found the easiest way is to charge an already-engaged enemy.

I much prefer the way charging works in M2TW to RTW, I can't just band box my cavalry and attack, I have to carefully set things up. When you do set up a perfect cavalry charge, it feels a lot more satisfying.

A correctly executed cavalry charge is very much like LOTR scenes :)