AI Armies

[mlp071]

I had same army compositions with "vanilla" scripts. It is not EB's fault though.

AI( ) tends to mass recruit units in the way "most amount for the buck" approach.And thats dependent of money that AI gets and some other things

Thats why Redmeth and I worked on scripts that give AI more money and better army compositions.Now i am facing mostly balanced armies , example Sauromatae Noble HA and heavy cavalry

If you are not happy with present ones , you can try that.

[Ignopotens]

I think the reason Rome's Armies seem so out of character is because they documented their Army compositions a lot more specifically than most, although I do agree I've seen some pretty strange groupings

[Teleklos Archelaou]

Remember that if an army is coming out of a type4 or type3 government province, that it should not be considered the same as one coming out of a type1 or 2 province. They are allies and loosely controlled regions that are fairly autonomous. They are allied to the major power, and may fight alongside their soldiers, but they aren't the core lands of the power itself.

[Conqueror]

I haven't had the opportunity to fight with all that many factions yet, but here's my observations:
- KH is pretty good, they put great emphasis on heavy infantry. I would like to see them use more of the hoplitai types and less thorakitai types though. They also bring along a good number of foot skirmishers, barely any cavalry and practically no long range missile units. Note that in my campaing the KH have eliminated Epirotes and Maks and are very rich.
- Karthadastim also love their heavy infantry, especially the elites They also tend to use lots of numidian (foot) skirmishers and it's not unusual to see 1-2 units of elephants in a full army. They have too little cavalry, only the generals and maybe a single unit of medium/heavy, they never seem to use skirmisher cav (I'm fighting them in North Africa, BTW),
- Pontos went for a mix of everything that was available to them (and quite a mix that was).
- Sauromatae use lots of foot archers in addition to their horse archers. They also bring along some sucky infantry to throw their lives away on my pikes.
- Pahlava are rich despite never expanding south, and there is nothing they love more than making an army of mostly cataphracts of many different types, with a minority of light horse archers and some infantry/foot archers.
- Ptolemaioi didn't live long in my campaign but I recall that they liked to recruit lots of galatikoi kleruchoi (?)
- Saba went for a mix of infantry, skirmishers and missiles, sometimes supporting them with a good number of cavalry.