To Modders & CA, improving land battles

[themoob]

Two major ideas I've had to help improve land battles in Empire.

One, improve reinforcements. Apart from the obvious, making them come from the right direction, how about making them better controllable, an improvement on Kingdoms. Either make them controllable via a tab system, where you can only use one army at once, but you can switch between the armies. This would make them hard to control of course, but such a large force was hard to control in real life as well. Or just be able to give them better commands.

Make maps bigger too, half the battle was maneuvering back then, and now we don't even have room to maneuver.

[Timefool]

I would also like the AI control feature put back in to reinforcements. It is hard to control 3+ fronts in a battle when you have reinforcements. Same goes for ship battles, and since they are not in the unit tray and a popup does not appear, I do not know when they are on fire or when they are taking on water, which means more ships lost.

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I would like the AI not to pile it's units up in a big blob in front of my line. That would be nice.

[tokaiser]

1. Reinforcements: Direction they come into battle is wrong. Cant control the like in kingdoms. Worst problem for sure and caused me to quit playing the game.
2. Terrible battle AI: Its just bad in so many ways. No strategic moves besides flanking. Come the on CA!
3. Fixed Cannons as Reinforcements: Causes the battle to never resolve cause the ing cannons dont come in.
4. Units facing the wrong way: happens fairly often and I havnt got them to face the right way or fire for the rest of the battle.
5. General Sniping: Cannons are so accurate you can snipe generals.
6. Weird morale system: Some of the lesser factions units. such as Maratha Conf. units can barely engage in combat without fleeing. Its weird.
7. etc: So much wrong with this game it not even funny.