Lands to Conquer 3.0

[Lusted]

Your playing on either Hard or Very Hard, the ai gets cash bonuses on those levels.

[SpencerH]

I am playing VH. I saw that you had given the AI cash bonuses, I am just amazed at the differences. I also appear to have a very large army compared to my neighbours and I believe you've upped the unit maintenance costs which is probably sapping my money. My problem with that change is:

1) Given the appalling strength of seige engines and the pathetic archer units (I appreciate your improvements though), walls are now useless (I wouldnt even bother to build them if I didnt have to upgrade).

2) Despite my peaceful intentions (my house rules) I'm at war with 3-4 neighbours at any one time so I have to leave more than a token defense in every city/castle. OTOH, the AI doesnt do that and so its cities/castles are a pushover to take for my armies.

[Lusted]

No i haven't raised upkeep, just tweaked income to reflect the longer campaign length.

Interesting i always fight on the walls first even if the ai has siege engines because it will usually only make a few holes then attack, and the height advantage helps my archers.

And on VH, just like vanilla but less so, your relations will deteriorate with other factions automatically unless your doing things to improve them. I'd suggest starting a new campaign on H as relations do not deteriorate to bad, just to normal, and the cash boost is smaller.

[SpencerH]

No i haven't raised upkeep, just tweaked income to reflect the longer campaign length.

I thought I read you had increased upkeep but I was obviously mistaken. I wonder why my income/science is so different compared to vanilla?

Interesting i always fight on the walls first even if the ai has siege engines because it will usually only make a few holes then attack, and the height advantage helps my archers.

I saw the same AI actions with seiges in vanila. I havent fought one in LTC yet but will now allow the French to attack rather than sally from Bordeaux castle on my next turn to see if the improved archers now do their job.

And on VH, just like vanilla but less so, your relations will deteriorate with other factions automatically unless your doing things to improve them. I'd suggest starting a new campaign on H as relations do not deteriorate to bad, just to normal, and the cash boost is smaller.

[Lusted]

I wonder why my income/science is so different compared to vanilla?

Well build times are longer because of the longer campaign, and more emphasis is put on trade income.

[Ars Moriendi]

How does this mod affects AI training preferences regarding cavalry ?

I'm asking this because in my present Scotland campaign - my first with LtC 3.0- the AI almost never trained any cavalry. I've obliterated the english using nothing but massed highlander charges, since they never built anything but spearmen, with the occasional longbow or billmen. Absolutely no cav, except for generals. I had no use for my pikes...
Same with the french : I've fought 6-7 battles against full stacks of spearmen + a few missile units. I sent some spies across europe (HRE, Denmark, Venice, Hungary), and I've counted maybe 7-8 cav units among the 10-15 stacks inspected.
It's even weirder with the eastern factions, byzantines and turks, who were supposed to train a lot of cavalry : they have none of their native units : no skythikon, no byz cav, no vardariotai. They do, however, hire all cav mercenaries they can find. Why don't they train their own ?

Is this normal, or I screwed something up when installing the mod ?

I quite sure the AI trained more cavalry in vanilla...

Savegame : http://www.filefactory.com/file/c768a6/ (maybe I'm looking for those horsemen in the wrong places)