
Originally Posted by
seienchin
i would never bother to ask a Question about the KI in this Forum. ;)
Everybody just pretends to know something and follows trends like: Alex.exe and Bi.exe have more naval invasions and better KI etc.
So Im going to pretend a little bit myself. These are the only things I think everybody can experience for themselves and agree with me.
Fact is:
The only things we know are:
Alex.exes units retrain!
BI.exe has more unit traits like swimming and that only indicates the battlefield KI might be slightly altered to aknowledge water has crossable terain. But on the other hand Rome.exe units also tended to drown in water. ^^
That is everything you can know for sure about the KI in EB.
Now. In the Vanilla games:
Rome.exe has plenty of naval invasions. In fact the Ki spawns ships like crazy and atacks relentlesly via Naval invasion, if they are targetting one of your Towns. Still for some reasons people feel, that there are next to no naval invasions in EB with Rome.exe. Some argue its because the map is too big for the Campain map KI other say its because of the high price for ships, but I guess we will never know.
Alex.exe in its own campain has an incredible passive Ki that would never ever atack your homeland and only uses their ships for blocking the sea. Still I dont think that indicates that it has to be the same in the EB Campain.
One thing people feel, that has improved from rome.exe to Alex.exe is the stack size, which seems to be higher in Alex, while Rome has a lot of small stacks, which is really annoying. Again, I am not sure if that is really true, because Rome Vanilla saw a lot! of huge stacks. Maybe again the pricing of the units.
For BI I guess there are no facts we know at all. Maybe its 100% like Vanillas KI. I had the feeling, that the units always tend to make a long line, to avoid beeing flanked, but then again I played Vanilla Rome and Alex and the Ki does the same.^^
Anyway. What we know about all exes is that the AI always has you as their priority. In EB I gave the seleuks huge amounts of money to stop the parthian invasion and even bought parthian cities and gave them to AS. I only neighboured them in Minor Asia and still... 5 turns later the AS atacks me, 30 Turns later the parthian had conquered 12 AS cities without any resistance, because all of their stacks went to atack me.
And that was with force Diplomacy, Alex.exe and hard difficulty. In medium its hard to tell the AI strategy, because they are extremly passive.
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