after going back to rome, i see how bad M2 AI is

[Callahan9119]

i recently grew bored of M2, so as i lost my old disks i went to walmart and got rtw again. as much as i like vanilla for the civil war aspect of rtw i prefer the rtr mod i played with, it was more gritty with its realism and kill rates, although cumbersome with so many cities to manage

but anyway, i had phyrrus in the south of italy, so i trained a few units and marched on rome with a nice army. i fought a roman army that had 4 more units than I...and was promptly spanked

i was pissed and happy at the same time. since i had M2 i rarely on hard difficulty lost a battle, even againsts 2X odds...yet in a "fair" fight in rtw i was spanked

kill rates and routing is reduced in this mod, but if this is what it takes then DO it CA, but even without kill rates, the AI in 1.5 was splitting its forces and being almost brilliant in its attack...was like i was fighting hannibal himself

i will not be so lax in future battles in rtw, M2 made me lazy, and i dont see myself returning to it until RTR platinum and BI drive me to boredom

i have used carls mod to fix shield bug, yet the reduced kill rates with this only made it easier to destroy AI armies

what the hell happened from rtw to M2