Patch 1.4

[Durallan]

nice! what difficulty settin was that at?

[Graphic]

nice! what difficulty settin was that at?

Normal. I wanted it to be even except for the vet bonus.

[Durallan]

Yay! that sounds awesome :D

[Durallan]

I am Over the Moon with joy to announce that Protectorates now count towards your Victory Conditions! Hoorah! (not double post or post counting posted last post an hour ago)

[Peasant Phill]

Why would the 'melee-bug' be in again or why not?
What evidence is there to (dis)prove this?

[Graphic]

Some people seem to think that any kind of ranged unit using melee at all -- unless they're out of ammo -- is a bug and wrong.

Ranged units use melee now when they're losing the shoot-out.

[Peasant Phill]

Some people seem to think that any kind of ranged unit using melee at all -- unless they're out of ammo -- is a bug and wrong.

Ranged units use melee now when they're losing the shoot-out.

That's actually a good feature. I was afraid that animations would hamper units' melee again like it did in M2TW.

P.S. Unless the unit charges the moment it loses more men than their opposite (after receiving the opening volley) or when it's to late (when their numbers are so diminished they're actually doing you a favour by engaging in melee)

[Sheogorath]

Alright, the AUM fix is out, so I'm a little happier :P

So far, so good. Only one battle thus far, in my Russian campaign, but the AI did try a strategy other than the 'rush straight at them and maybe flank with a cavalry unit' bit. Although I was on a bridge map, so that might have been it.

Either way it's attempt failed when I started encircling it, which apparently caused it to panic, form all it's infantry into columns and sit around to be annihilated by musket fire.

It also charged it's general unit directly into a line of musketeers, causing an instaroute. Nice to see that a frontal cavalry charge is now a bad idea even at the start of the game.