AI is still psychic

Alright, reacting to getting shot at with cannons is one thing, but I notice that AI generals and units STILL psychically know when you tell your cannons to shoot at them. When the AI is performing its inevitable general suicide charge, one effective method I've found for keeping them out of the fray (initially, at least) is to target them with cannons. The AI instantly sends its generaly to the other side of the magic red line.

The AI also knows when you tell your crews to use grapeshot and will occasionally halt its troops just out of grapeshot range if you shift your cannons to that ammo before they meet your line.

The only effect this has on gameplay is to make the AI annoying and to make battles take longer. It was present in ETW, although to a greater degree, to the point where you could break the 'melee bug' by setting up a line of cannons set to grapeshot, the AI would refuse to come near them half the time.

Either way, it's annoying.

I agree 103% It is close to be a game breaker Imo.

But I hope for the best in the future patches

Yes I agree, but only 102.57%

I very much dislike that this happens.

I doubt they will fix it. There are a lot of issues with ETW that I assumed would be fixed by a patch at some point, and here we have a whole new game based on the same system, and the problems are still there. Very disappointing.

The grapeshot thing is reasonable as by the time they're approaching range of that ammunition they are within sight of the cannons and theoretically have a pretty good chance of seeing what's being loaded into it.

well rome had the same prob with the gen unit, but i belive it was correctet in a patch, so it is duable

Yeah the suicidal general is still there, even those the AI seems much smarter overall.

Actually, many cavalry units just run in front of my line getting slaughtered instead of flanking. But that's OK with me since I'm usually outnumbered 3-1.

you can use this to your advantage, target your art at a wavering or shaken unit and stop them once the enemy routs, you should not even have to fire a cannonball(copied this from the ETW BAI)