Not enough people on the field?

[XenoOGear]

This mod is awesome. You guys did a great job. This is the "only" mod out there that actually respects alliances. I have tried so many mods, SS, Road to Jerusalem, and a couple other mods I can't remember as I'm at school right now. That being said, I do find the lack of troops on the battlefield a little bit irritating. I am about 400 turns into the game, year 1280ish, and I have a full stack of army in the middle east basically they never go after me with more than 4-5 units...... People say to give time but I'm basically halfway through my campaign and no one fields a full army. Is there a way to combine this mod with other mods, say SS, but just get its unit descriptions so I would get more big battles? I know you can edit the unit descr.txt but I'm not an expert at rebalancing unit costs and recruitment rate..... Does anyone have any suggestions?

[Phil Stanbridge]

Give it time

This is all I can say - I'm at 1430 and I'm facing full stacks - and sometimes several full stacks at a time, especially during jihad/crusades. It does happen. The AI can be quite passive, which is something Torn et al are dealing with in the next release, which should (in theory at least) mean you face larger stacks earlier on, but until then, just enjoy it. It's a cracking mod.

[hellispont]

what difficulty are you playing on?

[Phil Stanbridge]

what difficulty are you playing on?

I don't know if that question is aimed at me or him, but I'm playing on H/H

[XenoOGear]

I can't remember correctly but it's either H/VH or VH/VH. And Phil, I really hope what you say it's true because this is such a great mod and the only thing I would want fixed is the number of units on the field. I'll keep playing and hopefully one day I would face a full stack of units.

[Phil Stanbridge]

It definitely happens later on in the game but there are triggers. I've just beaten off a nearly full stack of egyptians and I've got a larger syrian army laying seige to istanbul. They only tend to field these larger armies during jihad/crusades however - and if the event finishes before the army reaches the destination they tend to sit idle.

Trick is not to blitz - if you take it really slowly it makes it much more enjoyable. I'm pretty sure the passive AI and field sizes has been improved in 2.1