Why no more AI units with ram / towers?

**The_Gimp** · June 21, 2011, 07:37 AM

I remember having some good siege battles against the AI in 1.3 when they had units including rams and siege towers (for the scripted sieges).

Now the scripted armies that I encountered only use siege weapons (like cannons) in 1.4.4, which makes them far less dangerous and even boring sometimes.
While siege units are not the 100% solution for good siege fights, it certainly helped.

So are there any main reasons why they have been removed from the campaign (not from the game, I know)?

**The Holy Pilgrim** · June 21, 2011, 12:22 PM

Perhaps they were the units causing the crashes after scripted battles or something like that.

**paradamed** · June 21, 2011, 04:50 PM

Maybe the scripted armies could have more siege weapons.

**hick09** · June 21, 2011, 11:56 PM

Now in 1.45 beta during the siege script battles AI build siege engines itself so there is no need in these engines

**The_Gimp** · June 22, 2011, 04:01 AM

Originally Posted by hick09

Now in 1.45 beta during the siege script battles AI build siege engines itself so there is no need in these engines

Great news!

**paradamed** · June 22, 2011, 10:00 PM

Originally Posted by hick09

Now in 1.45 beta during the siege script battles AI build siege engines itself so there is no need in these engines

Good to know version 1.45 is already in beta testing.

**Iguanaonastick** · June 29, 2011, 05:12 PM

I actually already saw Grimgor do this in 1.44

After a long march on Nuln he only had two stacks left, courtesy the Imperial Halberdiers. His own stack build rams and a tower which they used to seize the gate and charge the city. (Touch and go: my mortars collapsed their siege-tower just as the last black orc jumped off.) The other stack however only had catapults which failed to breach the walls before my cannon-towers killed the crew.

If the AI uses more siege equipment in the next version it'd be great. Especially since chaos hellcannon need forever to break down solid walls, even on fast-forward mode.