Reinforcements.. or not!

[Bakerzz]

Well, I've just started playing Rome Total War, once again, and was just fighting a battle in the imperial campaign mode, where I had the computer controlling my reinforcements (don't know if there is a way of controlling them yourself).

But I had engaged the battle, so I was the one who had to charge the oposing forces... so when my reinforcements had arrived and stood almost next to my own men I decided to start the fighting. But my reinforcement did nothing else than moving their units into a new battle position.. And as if that wasn't bad enough, when my men had been slaughtered because they where badly out numbered without any help from the AI, the AI still didn't want to engage the enemies, so I had to watch my reinforcement just looking at the gauls until the clock ran out...

I don't know if others have experienced anything like this before, I sure hasn't, as I rembered the last time I played, the AI controlled reinforcement would just kill of the reinforcement because they would charge my men into the oposition without any sense of strategy.

[HanatielHawk]

Never let the AI controll your reinforcements, when they must do that automaticly resolve but do not play on the battlemap unless you want to lose. The AI is dumb.

[Xavier Dragnesi]

The AI was never to clever with the reinforcements. I'd say you would do better to control them yourself, even if your original army is 20 units. It's better just to do the best you can with those than seeing the AI use them uselessly and ruin your day

[Delenidas di Warlord]

That's happened to me too. A waste of units I think!

[wierdo5000]

AI sux. dont ever let them touch your men, and if they must, well try and beat the enemy before they get close enough to fight...