Quote Originally Posted by lars573 View Post
Wrong. They were for sure in ETW, as it had pike units. And the AI has improved much in 5 games. I haven't played Shogun 2 (my PC lacks with ETW), but ETW's AI was a VAST improvement over RTW.
Eh, Im not so sure about that. The infamous melee bug in ETW took months for them to "fix" and even then, only modders were able to keep it from occurring. But considering how willing the AI was to charge into melee range, maybe thats a good sign?

On the other hand, shogun 2 AI seemed to be much better, although I havent had that much time on it. I was attacking a large city and when the first line defenders began to show signs of breaking they fell back to the second line (and last line) of defense and made a last stand there, so I was pretty impressed with that.

But we will have to wait and see about the AI, we will only know when the game comes out, as CA's promises about the AI should not be taken too seriously.