Strange siege AI!!

**MagyarMatt** · March 21, 2008, 03:54 PM

So I'm defending somewhere or other from the Byzantines. They get ladders and a tower to the walls and after a hard fought fight I repel them. Then some of their routed units stop routing and come back. Some of them just walk right up to the wall and keep walking into the wall not getting anywhere. Whilst the others pick up two of the ladders and start carrying them away as you can see in the screenshot!!

**gewehr36** · March 21, 2008, 03:59 PM

As for the ones that are running into the wall, they are trying to get into formation with the rest of their unit. The guys with the ladders, I don't know what to say.

**Harry Lime** · March 21, 2008, 03:59 PM

Well I have seen the walking into walls a few times. It normally happens because the unit has become separated due to the poor hardcoded pathfinding issues & is trying to regroup. However I've never seen them carrying the ladders away

. Perhaps they decided as they sucked at fighting to take up window cleaning?

**LlamaD** · March 21, 2008, 04:46 PM

Originally Posted by Harry Lime

Well I have seen the walking into walls a few times. It normally happens because the unit has become separated due to the poor hardcoded pathfinding issues & is trying to regroup. However I've never seen them carrying the ladders away

. Perhaps they decided as they sucked at fighting to take up window cleaning?

They almost did.

Sometimes they grab their equipment to move it elsewhere. I've seen in mtw2vanilla that they grabbed their ladders from the outer wall after they took it and moved it to the inner ring. same with battering rams

However, they can also decide to rout and move all units out of the battle area. Sometimes with the equipment, but not very often.

At least you don't have the superlagheavy situation where you destroyed the battering rams and the siege towers and all 20 opposing foot-units gather on 2 m² around their four ladders on the wall. I'm talking about "1 frame every 25 seconds"-Lag.

**Furin** · March 21, 2008, 06:08 PM

You AI reinforcements are totally clueless when it comes to siege equipment too, usually they make a vast line on the other side of the map, polishin thier ladders, while your own army is teared to pieces.

**Omar Nelson B.** · March 21, 2008, 06:11 PM

They are going Green. Recycle is the name of the game. Or their wives called them on the mobile and said' "Bring home some fire wood. We are cooking stew"