Whats the smartest thing you've seen the computer do?

[hellispont]

The game can become bland once you've learned the patterns of the computer; whether its understanding it's patterns on the camp map, or knowing its next moves in the battlemap. However, every once in a while it will do something to make you think a human is behind the controls.

For me it was in one of the earlier TLR versions when i was playing as HRE. I cap'd Venice and a couple other northern Italy cities which left them with a province to my left, and the remainder of its empire to the right. After taking Venice i waited a couple turns rebuilding the army and waiting to see if venice would respond which they didnt, so I went on down south Italy to add Siciliy to the retinue. Well as I was making my way down south and hit the end turn button, Venetian's move included a 3 prong assault on Venice, Florence, and Bologna with a full stack to each city. It's not unusual to have multiple cities come under siege by the same AI faction, but this time was different. The siege on Bologna came via a ship, the stack on Venice came from the road north, and the attack on Florence came from Genoa region, which was under siege from the Milanese - that stack consisted mainly of mercs. I paused to reflect and try to figure out what the hell happend, and judging by the travel distances of units via the north road and sea routes, it looked as if the computer had piled up the units just inside siege range and had waited till all 3 armies could attack on the same turn. More than likely just sheer coincidence but it made the campaign interesting as I was left in the dark and kept guessing at what the comp would do next. I was barely able to repulse the attacks on Bologna and Venice which were staffed with militia units - those were some real close and exciting battles. Florence would have been doomed as it's garrison was a little lacking, had i not doubled back with my southern army, which i had to leave the infantry behind and rush to aid the city just in time of the siege.

Feel free to add your own experiences be it something in the camp map or battle map

[Irishmafia2020]

While fighting the Rum in Anatolia, the computer trapped two of my individual generals and forced them to fight to the death. I was trying to upgrade my new provinces with a series of watchtowers, and I thus had my generals out in the boonies without armies, when in the same turn I found them to be trapped by several quarter stacks of Rum soldiers. I lost two generals to this entrapment tactic in the same turn. I was surprised. Also, the Kievan Rus seem to be able to use limited warfare and diplomacy in a combination that has preserved their borders iin spite of being surrounded by enemies. I am impressed, especially since I am one of those enemies... Lastly, the Rebels really were able to combine forces and attack me behind the lines in the early game. I was unable to expand until I took care of the full stack that besieged my capital everytime I left the province. The rebels slowed me up by combining their forces and winning several early battles before I defeated them decisively.