AI Tactical Brilliance

**happycynic** · January 09, 2010, 08:21 PM

I know the battle AI has never been particularly brilliant, but I just fought a battle with the dumbest French AI army I have ever seen. Basically, despite the AI intercepting me as I marched through southern France, it refused to attack, choosing to fight a purely artillery duel with their 4 units of 6lb horse artillery versus my 4 units of 24lb howitzers. Despite mounting casualties, they refused to advance to contact. This was the result.

Is this a fluke or have other seen the AI act this poorly.

**Lumina** · January 09, 2010, 08:30 PM

Look at my pictures in my album I have a picture vs me and Maratha ...I lost 1 soldier they lost thousands.

**Grislok** · January 09, 2010, 10:48 PM

Why did your artillery units garner no chevrons?

**RomulusAugustus** · January 09, 2010, 10:55 PM

Looks like the AI killed its own guys?

**happycynic** · January 09, 2010, 11:25 PM

Originally Posted by RomulusAugustus

Looks like the AI killed its own guys?

No, they weren't even firing except for the cannons. They just stood there and I killed them with quicklime shot. I don't know why that didn't register as kills on the final tally.

**daniu** · January 10, 2010, 03:00 AM

Originally Posted by Grislok

Why did your artillery units garner no chevrons?

If I may venture a guess: OP used quicklime, the casualties of which aren't included in the kill count.

**MortenJessen** · January 10, 2010, 05:06 AM

Originally Posted by Grislok

Why did your artillery units garner no chevrons?

Hi there.
Just to add to danius point, a unit needs 70 kills to get its first chevron. 4 x 70 = 280. And since the OP only killed 283, it is likely that the loss of a man from one of the artillery crews neutralized some of these deaths, so no chevrons.
Y.S.
M. Jessen

**Lumina** · January 10, 2010, 01:09 PM

What did you do? Fight Milita? I just realised how Few enemies you killed but how many they lost? Did buildings fall on them? Was it a Siege battle?! lol

**happycynic** · January 10, 2010, 02:47 PM

Originally Posted by Lumina

What did you do? Fight Milita? I just realised how Few enemies you killed but how many they lost? Did buildings fall on them? Was it a Siege battle?! lol

It was mostly line infantry, with a few elite line infantry formations, 4 6lb horse artillery, a couple of light infantry units, and one unit of provincial cavalry. I killed them all with quicklime. The only unit to gain a chevron was the cavalry unit. The infantry units all had the single chevron from the start due to the advanced barracks at Vienna.

As for tactics it was basic line up across the field. Nothing special I did which is why I find it so odd. I was like, they attacked me so they have to march into my guns and initiate or they lose if time runs out. So I stood there and shot them with howitzers. And they wouldn't move other than to re-shift when formations broke. So I got curious at how long they would do that and hit fast forward. They stood there until all line infantry formations broke and ran, at which point I sent in the cavalry to wipe out the remaining artillery.

**Lumina** · January 10, 2010, 04:27 PM

Then why does it say you killed so few? AI doesn't give up that easily.

**british_general** · February 28, 2010, 04:00 AM

I also have natives standing aroud doing nothing so I put line infantry close to them. Nothing happened. I started firing. Nothing happened. I enveloped them.Nothing happened. I fired dor half an hour. Nothing happened. I got a drink. Finally something happened. They tried to run but got stuck. I laughed the entire tme. I'll never forget that.