Please, pretty please, besiege me.

[Destan]

OK. First off, I love TLR. Love it. Always have, always will. Now that we've established that, here's an issue I have and I'm wondering if it's universal: The AI never attacks me. (I don't get much time to cruise forums as I rarely have net connex with my job, so I apologize if this has been discussed to death.) I rarely am besieged, and I only fight 2- or 3-front wars when I necessarily provoke them to make things interesting. I play on VH/VH and I've self-imposed a "no alliance" house rule on myself. I can leave a province with a minimal peasant garrison next to a sworn enemy and rarely do they cross my borders to attack. I'm not saying I'm *never* attacked, but it's very, very rare. Case in point - I'm playing Abbasid. I've decided to make the Muslim World my own, then go after the West. I've seriously, seriously overextended from Baghdad to Constantinople. I have so many settlements that would crumble under a decent (we're talking 5-6 unit stack) siege. But..nothing's do. Am I truly that benevolent of a ruler that all peoples, irrespective of faith, respect my wisdom? The only reason I'm posting this is I read AAR's and it seems some people ARE attacked and some people ARE nailed for being overextended. And, finally, it seems that I used to be attacked in TLR but someone has turned on the Passivity bug or what-not. Same version. Odd. A copper for your thoughts - D

[ciciocle]

man, i don't know about you, but i'm allways attacked by the AI..If I play with Byzantium, then Sicily, Hungary, Rum and and every possible muslim faction gang up on me. If I play Denmark, then HRE, Novgorod and Poland lay siege on my cities...If I play with Egypt, between all the crusades, I am also attacked by the Syrians...Every time, at least one faction attackes me around 1100-1025...Just make sure you capture a provice some faction needs for it's victory condition. There are some regions that atract AI like mangnet...

[acegogo]

I get the same, plenty of enemy attacks once th game starts to get going.... give it 40-50 turns, and the lack of rebel settlements will have them iching to attack you, most of the time the just need a "little" encouragement.

Another tip is never to ally with the papacy, this gives a chance to catholic factions to gang up on you.

[Freedom]

I find every game is different... one game as Poland I was owning the **** out of Russia and keeping my military installations to my west very scant (just enough to get free upkeep units, not even stables or archery range) then the HRE decided they wanted to expand and my nearest decent military installation was... Pskov. ><

On the other end, I was expanding into many of the same areas as Denmark working outwards from Riga and Pskov and for a long time had little in the way of standing army near the northern section of Germany but the HRE just sat there, even though they were trying to tackle France who had more troops on its home front. When I took 2 stacks of decent level troops (Norse archers, Huscarls, Norse Swordsmen and Dism. Huscarls with some other units mixed in) to attack them I discovered they had a large stack of Crusader units just sort of standing around... first attempt with just 1 stack was a failure.

[Tariq]

As Abassid i took Aleppo from rebels. Sure enough, Syrians attacked me there with stack soon, despite having excellent standing with them.

It took them alot of casualties to get that from me, and i took it back as soon i got my reinforcements there.

The part i love about this is, that after i took back Aleppo and destroyed what ever was left from their army there, they accepted peace and get back into alliance with me

They didn't attack again me after that. Gawd, i really love this modable AI diplomacy.