Do the AI factions receive military as well as monetary assistance?

[Titus Marcellus Scato]

Yep - only solution is to hire the mercs yourself to stop the enemy getting them.

[siegfriedfr]

Yep - only solution is to hire the mercs yourself to stop the enemy getting them.

or go into descr_mercenaries, reduce all unit pools to 1 mercenary, and triple mercenary refresh rate.

[Cute Wolf]

or go into descr_mercenaries, reduce all unit pools to 1 mercenary, and triple mercenary refresh rate.

that will made sure the AI got 10 new units or more in each turn...

suggestion : divide refresh rate by 3

[seienchin]

Giving them military help would be the better solution, but it would be a modding nightmare and might even double the already extensive EB script.

[SlickNicaG69]

Do it like I do it and play the game like a real man. Go to the money script and set all the add_money values for each faction to 0 except for the slave/rebel factions. This allows you to be able to play a multi-faceted game where you can win by spying, assassinating, attrition, etc. Not only that, but a faction with little resources is always more inclined to be reasonable in its diplomacy. This is much more "realistic" than simply playing a game where assassins and spying have hardly any effect, by preventing the game from being an endless series of Your Army v. Cpu Levies.

[Cute Wolf]

Do it like I do it and play the game like a real man. Go to the money script and set all the add_money values for each faction to 0 except for the slave/rebel factions. This allows you to be able to play a multi-faceted game where you can win by spying, assassinating, attrition, etc. Not only that, but a faction with little resources is always more inclined to be reasonable in its diplomacy. This is much more "realistic" than simply playing a game where assassins and spying have hardly any effect, by preventing the game from being an endless series of Your Army v. Cpu Levies.

Well, spy is useful to open the gates... and I turn off assassins for all factions as my personal preferences, as I can't assassinate the "personal security beefed" AI generals, and can only proceed by sabotaging constructions and noob diplomats...

well, SlickNicaG69, you'll see M2TW made assassination in campaign becomes much - much - much more important

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because they are the only one who could stop foreign missionaries from converting your population, bar the 9 captain stomp cheat