Clever AI

[TB666]

So any of the units you get in the land battles able to lay down stakes?

Only the light infantry I think.

[miniwally]

Only the light infantry I think.

dam i could've used that to help me at least i still won :D Do you know what level of difficulty the battles were on?

[Monk]

dam i could've used that to help me at least i still won :D Do you know what level of difficulty the battles were on?

They are on normal, but you can edit the script files to make them harder.

edit:

Found the link to the post at Yuku, but I dunno how to change difficulty on Vista. I dont seem to have this directory.

c:\Documents and Settings\**your name **\Application Data\The Creative Assembly\EmpireDemo2\scripts\preferences.empire_script.txt


and change the value:

battle_difficulty

[Sheogorath]

The AI seems a bit schizophrenic to me.

At one point in a battle I was playing with it, it lined up all of its line infantry to meet my main force advancing on its flank and started marching forward to attack me en masse.

Then suddenly it changed its mind and drew back all but three units, two of which stopped and one more of which advanced on me.

I felt kind of insulted, to be honest. It's like the AI wanted me to know it was going easy on me

Psychological warfare, maybe?

[ratbarf]

Overall I wasn't that pleased with the AI from the battle, though the ambushing Long Rifles where rather cool. They never once moved their artillery to a better position to shoot my troops. Also, I had General Washington suicide charge my Dragoons all on his lonesome...

[Gaius Terentius Varro]

Scripted historical battle does not mean the AI got better . Take a deep breath and think about it.

[Sir Beane]

Scripted historical battle does not mean the AI got better . Take a deep breath and think about it.

It would be difficult to script responses to everything the player can do. Scripts can handle the initial setting up and initial tactics would would be nigh-useless in a fluid combat situation. You can't script for something you can't predict.

I've played the battle multiple times with multiple different approaches just to see what the AI does. In most situations it handles itself much better than the M2TW or RTW AI would manage. The only problem is that it seems to have a blindness for properly using it's cannon advantage, which might in fact be the result of the scripts that are there working against it.

[Daimon]

Scripted historical battle does not mean the AI got better . Take a deep breath and think about it.

Look at this:

Brandywine - Main force of AI is under AI control but only held in position, is then released to AI control after different times based on which ford you go to.

Lagos - not scriped at all.

[screwtype]

Also, I had General Washington suicide charge my Dragoons all on his lonesome...

LMAO, that was a problem with Shogun. All this time and they still haven't fixed it yet

[quadalpha]

In vista, you go to C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Roaming\The Creative Assembly\[etc.] You will need to show hidden folders to see AppData.

The difference between Vista and XP is because Vista tries to control which parts of the hard drive applications can access a lot more and tricks the application into thinking that the "AppData" folder is the old "Application Data" folder.

[Megas Methuselah]

In the carnage after a charge, I noticed one of my highlanders was skewered in a stake. He was the only one to earn such a fate. Poor bugger.

[Sir Beane]

In the carnage after a charge, I noticed one of my highlanders was skewered in a stake. He was the only one to earn such a fate. Poor bugger.

Stakes can kill infantry now? Oh God. I still have nightmares from the time when I managed to run both my King, my Heir and a ten star general onto stakes. Not once, but twice. It was horrible.

The worst part is I had won the battle and was chasing down routing men.

The even more worse part was that the stakes were my own. And the enemy didn't even have cavalry.

[Megas Methuselah]

Yeah, I accidently killed my King and a hired general with my own stakes in the Carribean once. Not twice, though.

Anyways, it was only one highlander who got run through by a stake out of 2 units that charged. It must have been pure chance.

[Daevyll]

Stakes can kill infantry now? Oh God. I still have nightmares from the time when I managed to run both my King, my Heir and a ten star general onto stakes. Not once, but twice. It was horrible.

The worst part is I had won the battle and was chasing down routing men.

The even more worse part was that the stakes were my own. And the enemy didn't even have cavalry.

Thank god. I am not alone...

[Barkhorn1x]

The even more worse part was that the stakes were my own. And the enemy didn't even have cavalry.

Oh man, you must have felt like @#$%. That is too funny.