Does the AI retrain units?

[booker]

I´m wondering if the AI do retrain units or only merge them?

could someone confirm this ?

thanks..

Ps, this is coz i want to play with some house rule and i don´t want to retrain if the AI don´t retrain.. .

[Hader]

I have never seen the AI retrein units. Usually, they do merger them. Once, I battled with a senate army against some rebels and one of the senates hastati units lost about 30 men. 50 turns later, I saw that same unit with the same amount of men.

It's pretty stupid for the AI to not retrain a 5 chevron unit with 20 men left in it. Who would throw away such exp.?

[John I Tzimisces]

No, it doesn't retrain units.
I'm not sure if they merge units or not, either.

[booker]

Are you certain about this? the AI don´t retrain?... o think i saw the AI doing this... they don´t sent the unit back to the barracks to retrain them but if they are there, they do retrain some...

Í may be wrong though..

are you guys 100% certain about this?

thanks

[Aetius]

I don't think anyone can be 100% certain, except CA and Sega. Personally, I don't the AI is smart enough to retrain, but I could be wrong....

[Hader]

I'm pretty sure that the AI doesn't retrain. I always see armies with 20 units in them but the armies strength bar is very low. They have units with 15 men in them composing the main bulk of their army! Anyway, I have never seen any AI retrain units.

[professorspatula]

I don't think the AI retains units either. To be honest, with the way retraining works and the fact that you can retrain a 95% depleted 8 chevron unit to a 100% strength 8 chevron unit, I wouldn't want the AI to retrain troops. I don't retrain units much either now to balance the playing field. It's possible the AI merges units, which maybe explains how it gets so many high experience units with just a handful of men in them, or maybe it doesn't.

[hellheaven1987]

I think most time AI doesn't retrain units... but I have seen AI retrained unit during my Carthage campaign. I have seen my Greek ally kept retaining its unit after each battles.

[mastahyee]

If you manage to whip an enemy AI army badly enough, the units that manage to run away will combine just like yours into a cohesive unit. Like if 3 80 man Iberian Infantry units get wiped out to like 10 guys each, the game usually sticks them all together for both you and the AI.

Personally, I don't usually combine units myself, unless they're mercenaries and I can't retrain them.

[Fabolous]

AI doesn't retrain from my experience. Doesn't disband either. I am pretty sure it merges, it atleast does to some end, as the game engine forces it at times.

[Nebuchadnezzar]

From my experience the AI does retrain occasionally. It will prioritize for buildings and recruitment before any retraining. It will not retrain all units at once but groups of same units if cash is available. It will not retrain if reloading a saved game even if the AI had done so before the save and reload.

[Legionary Jezza]

i think weve established they dont retrain but would they disband that unit and bring a fresh 1

[booker]

well i see that most of you have the same doubt as i do.. so nothing is for certain right?..

some says it will disband, others don´t agree with it, some think they retrain occasionally and others think they don´t retrain at all...

oh well... i´ll try to retrain sometimes.. and sometimes deal with it.

[Legionary Jezza]

thats ok but try it on hard mode and they might

[booker]

I´m already on Vh/vh if that is what you meant.

[Septimius Severus]

I'd really lean towards the AI not retraining or disbanding the units at all. After all, they could just switch units within stacks, or the units could disappear after a battle because too little of them survived. I don't think the difficulty affects whether or not they retrain units, though I wouldn't want the AI to retrain Town Watch and other cheap infantry so that they can send it back to be defeated once again...

[hellheaven1987]

I'd really lean towards the AI not retraining or disbanding the units at all. After all, they could just switch units within stacks, or the units could disappear after a battle because too little of them survived. I don't think the difficulty affects whether or not they retrain units, though I wouldn't want the AI to retrain Town Watch and other cheap infantry so that they can send it back to be defeated once again...

Not really, I have seen AI (my Ally) retrained its unit (Hoptilor) in Sicily.

[Legionary Jezza]

well lets just say its good they dnt retrain so there easier to get killed

[Legionary Jezza]

well maybe its 1 of those rare things

[gardibolt]

I expect there's some kind of logical tree the AI follows for making this determination; if the AI does indeed retrain, it seems to be an awfully low priority.