Just think of a STW campaign without the Hojo Horde and suicide daimyos reducing your competition to rebels.![]()
Just think of a STW campaign without the Hojo Horde and suicide daimyos reducing your competition to rebels.![]()
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Lets not forget Shimazu's horde from the west.
Alexander the pretty good makes a decent point, given that there are less units, the AI should be able to choose sensibly from the ones available.
They claim to be using Sun Tzu's art of war for the AI, doesn't mean much to me.
I think the AI will be at least ok, surely better than that of Empire's, which was a huge game with loads of units and factions, if they mess up AI on this one then they really haven't tried.
Actually, the sengoku jidai period is one of the very few that makes sense for CA's Hobbesean all-against-all AI. Everybody wants to become Shogun, or be a close (preferably by marriage) ally of the dude who wins. Hmm, well, I don't know if CA can handle that second part. Allies who stick with you even when you're winning? Unthinkable.
It makes sense because the TW Ai was designed around this setting and was carried over into other settings that had to do very little with a unification of japan/conquer all, as classical antiquity and the medieval period.
The battle AI's performance is tied to the strategic AI's performance (is he capable to bring the right units to counter theenemy army at the right place at the right time?), by the way this is why it was a bad idea to leave the "2d" map that helped greatly the AI to bring theright units to theright place at the right time, and on various battle engine parameters and mechanics as well as the rosters. A simplified roster should very greatly help the battlefield AI.
Despite the good indications (ie that CA chose by itself to take things back to basics and against the will of the majorithy of its fanbase) this can still be messed up - however there is now the possibility to play an online multipleyer campaign against your friends in TW, and i am sure that S2 will be no exception. I have not bought Napoleon, but i am really excited to try this new option with S2 - its a format that i will definitely enjoy, as i am sure other players will give me a good run for my money.
Last edited by gollum; 06-04-2010 at 00:30.
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