Strategic AI

[Hooahguy]

VH/VH

But I don't think the problems I pointed out are a matter of difficulty. I mean, some of the issues (recruiting, no naval invasions) can be traced back to RTW, so sometimes I think they just used parts of the old code and the new AI for the campaign level was never done, unfinished or for unknown reasons not implemented. For example all this talk about the campaign AI communicating with the battle AI: Have you ever seen the AI doing a strategic retreat against impossible odds in battle (or even on the campaign map)?

are you sure were playing the same game? im on H/H and im almost sweating with tension. im surrounded, and outnumbered most of the time.
i only beat the enemy by tactics on the battlefield.
and im no TW n00b either, after playing many M2TW and RTW (and EB) campaigns, all on VH.

[zarkis]

are you sure were playing the same game? im on H/H and im almost sweating with tension. im surrounded, and outnumbered most of the time.
i only beat the enemy by tactics on the battlefield.
and im no TW n00b either, after playing many M2TW and RTW (and EB) campaigns, all on VH.

Well, it's probably harder playing a faction surrounded by other factions like Prussia compared to England (safe island) or Maratha (only one major and one minor faction as real opponents). And as always the beginning is more of a struggle then the middle part or the end. Now, my game if Maratha was basicaly over after 1715 and won (fullfilled the victory conditions for the long campaign) at 1738. I had one tense time when Mysore stabbed me in the back, but since the Moghuls only sent harrassing armies, there was no real danger.
At the end I was at war with England, Russia, the Netherlands, Denmark and some smaller countries, but none of the superpowers ever showed up in India (because naval invasions don't work) and Russia didn't manage to launch a counterattack to get the provinces back I took from them. Why? Because they were - as most other AI factions - locked in an endless struggle against other AI factions without any progress and basicaly broke because they send endless waves of 1-3 unit armies against their neighbors, which of course are to weak to take on a province capital. Now, the Ottomans in my campaign had nearly no land units in africa/arabia/persia but 4 naval stacks sitting idle in the Persian Gulf, while a lone Russian unit was constantly devastating their towns in Mesopotamia. I watched this for more then ten years, and in all that time the Ottoman AI did not raise a single land unit to fight this lone intruder. At least they had a stack in Constantinopel, that was constantly killing small Russian armies off their land. Because of FOW, I couldn't see all their countries, however.