How's that Passive AI doing?

[Shahed]

It is alive & thriving in Kingdoms, and most other mods as well.
Although the best efforts to kill it are in mods with the best results, not in vanilla Kingdoms.
Some of these mods have reduced passive AI greatly.

I finally was able to sit down and play the Darth Ages last night, and my first impressions are quite positive. I was only able to play for an hour, but I faced my first battle as France (my first time as France, I usually play Danes/Abassids/Venitians for the unit rosters) and I have to say that I was pretty impressed with the battle. To start off, the a.i. sallyed against my seige at Bruges, and the battle proved to be a lengthy affair. I found that I was not assured of winning through sheer force of numbers and that the a.i. actually flanked me on both sides of my line while their cavalry unit attempted to rear charge my spearmen. the battle turned into a number of smaller skirmishes as I counterflanked their units by having my archers charge the outer edge of the battle. Ultimately, the battle was decided when I killed the enemy general, and their center of Flemish Pikemen broke and fled. By the end of the battle all of my spear militia, Merc Crossbows, and Peasent archers were dead, and the only units that remained capable of further offensive action were three Sergeant Spearmen units. The army that I prepared for an easy three province blitz to begin the game instead lays shattered by a pyhric victory in only their first battle. That battle a.i. definately seems promising, and I will comment more on the campaign a.i. as my game progresses. If you (Naimad, averros) update the game with the new name and resource files from TLR, I will update my game this weekend. You have made me a fan after my first battle, and Gentlemen (I assume) I offer you my sincerest applause all around...

I have'nt tried this mod yet but it sounds interesting so far. This is an evolution of the Darth mod, incorporating The Long Road mod (both excellent mods by themselves). See this thread for details on Darth Ages: http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showt...121944&page=17