Ai suggestions for mass battle

[Hellmut34]

During my recent campaign which is a succession campaign with my brother, we noticed that when attacked by two separate armies (same faction) the armies do not combine correctly when on the battlefield.

Example

i faced two forces of the Hre a) 1150 troops b) 560 troops

I had a good defensive position with 650 battle hardened troops.

First on the scene were the 560 hre troops, outnumbered and outclassed by my force they still proceeded to attack my strongly defended hill without waiting for the stronger secondary force.

One mass rout later and with time to pursue, kill and reform i then managed to do away with the secondary force of 1150.
Surely this wouldn't have been so if the ai waited for both forces to combine.

Any suggestions would be great.
My settings are VH/VH

[James Cook]

the ai and the player can onlyhave 20 units in each army

[King Kong]

Hi Hellmut,

Well, I agree that the AI armies should have a better coordination. I hope that Darth will address this with his upcoming new battle AI...
However, when your problem is that only 20 AI units enter the battle (when they have actually more armies) and you want to change that, open the medieval2.preferences file and look for the line
"unlimited_men_on_battlefield = 0"
and change it to
"unlimited_men_on_battlefield = 1".

the ai and the player can onlyhave 20 units in each army

Hi mrkk,

Well, I don't think that this was his problem, since 560 and 1150 men in the HRE armies probably aren't more than 20 unit cards...
So, actually both armies should have entered the battle at the same time.

[Hellmut34]

hmm this needs to be addressed

[Hellmut34]

Thanks KK , you are correct they did both enter at the same time.

However both from different angles, but still from my front.