Most awesome thing the AI's ever done?

[.L.]

What is the most awesome thing you've ever seen the AI do? I've seen the Turks not only survive the Timmies, but ass-rape them into obliteration with a quarter of the size of the Timmy armies. What was left of their pitiful army(around 3 full stacks as well as a bunch of pretty much wiped out stacks) fled to the Byzzies, then 3 byzantine stacks stopped them in their tracks, and due to the nature of the terrain, managed to pretty much wipe them out by taking on each stack separately with the full force of their armies(they took heavy casualties but still...) I had FOW off btw. I was INCREDIBLY impressed.

[PrestigeX]

Byzantium that aggressively took over lot of territory , from in the north Kiev to Yerevan in the east, Antioch in the south, and Ragusa in the East -- destroyed the turks, but not extreme.

What was cool was how they single-handedly destroyed the Mongols, time and time again "A people in Flight" ... I guess it was cool because it usually isn't the Byz to take them on, it's usually a confederacy of Russia and Egypt that beats them...

Other interesting things AI's done is .. Jihads to Great Britain -- London / Edinburgh as the targets, and repeated armies -- moors, egypt, and turks - they all showed up, but it was Egypt with the most strength.


P.S. -- Does anyone play a game or a mod here where England (controlled by the AI ) doesn't completely suck? they always the worst faction when used by AI , no good troops, waves after waves of spear militia

[Kine]

There was once a battle that involved 7 Factions. That was kinda cool. 4 of them congregated in Toulouse in response to a crusade called against Spain (me). I sorted things out with the pope but the crusading stacks still hung around. Then my buddies (Portugal and the Moors) came into the picture so every stack there were all bunched up around the city. Portugal did something weird and activated a battle during its' turn. We lost but it was awesome to see so many different banners on the field.

[Nazgûl Killer]

I had seen something quite incredible in Stainless Steel 6.1 not too long ago.

England had taken over the whole of the British Isles (Killing both Scotland and Ireland) and proceeded to invade and decimate France, taking over all of their land including Antwerp and Bruges.

The Danes, while the English were busy with the French, had decimated Norway and captured the whole of Scandinavia and also invaded the Holy Roman Empire along with Poland and Hungary, taking a massive chunk of Germany, controlling everything between Magdeburg, Frankfurt and Bern.

The English then started a war with the Danes on three different fronts, a naval invasion crew of two full stacks landed in Norway, a land invasion through Antwerp went to take over Cologne and Frankfurt and another force of a full stack or so attacked Bern. It went quite well for them for a while, destroying all opposition, taking over Frankfurt, Metz, Cologne, Bern and that Norwegian city with the abnormally long and complicated name.

After a few turns of skirmishes, the Danes had apparently amassed a force that I was amazed with, by that time I had taken over the Genoese and the Venetians (I was the Byzantine Empire) and the Sicilians, so I had a front row seat to those invasions.
The Danes had pushed through Magdeburg on three different courses, a full stack was sent to Cologne, another to Antwerp and the last to Frankfurt, a surprise attack and a successful one too. Another full stack was launched from the fortress next to Bern (To the North of it, forgotten its name as well) and took it by storm, moving on to Lyon from there.
A seaborne invasion was sent from Oslo to land by that Norwegian city and take it back.

The Danes had continued their amazing supply of troops, their heavy infantry ripping through the lower-quality English infantry, decimating them, taking over everything between Metz to Rennes, taking the whole of France by surprise and by storm and leaving England with just the British isles, with that they had signed a peace treaty and my ally, the Danes, had an empire to be proud of.

The Danes then continued to perform sea-skirmishes all over the Northern sea and had invaded Ireland and Scotland, taking them quickly and proceeding down toward London.

London made its final stand with three full stacks, consisting of a random captain, their faction leader and faction heir, the battle was glorious, and the English had fended off the Danish assaults for more than ten years, before agreeing to become their vassals.

This may not sound like something too amazing, but I swear that I thought the AI was controlled by some human player, they used tactical moves that were truly unlike the AI, it was amazing. The English never knew what hit them.

So I had stopped that campaign since it got a little bit boring with my controlling the mid-east (Turkey, Egypt, half of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Lybia), Greece, Italy (Aside for Rome), half of Germany, Hungary and Austria and the Danes controlling the British Isles aside for Winchester and London, France, the other half of Germany and Scandinavia.

One of the best campaigns I've had.

[tudor93]

I had seen something quite incredible in Stainless Steel 6.1 not too long ago.

England had taken over the whole of the British Isles (Killing both Scotland and Ireland) and proceeded to invade and decimate France, taking over all of their land including Antwerp and Bruges.

The Danes, while the English were busy with the French, had decimated Norway and captured the whole of Scandinavia and also invaded the Holy Roman Empire along with Poland and Hungary, taking a massive chunk of Germany, controlling everything between Magdeburg, Frankfurt and Bern.

The English then started a war with the Danes on three different fronts, a naval invasion crew of two full stacks landed in Norway, a land invasion through Antwerp went to take over Cologne and Frankfurt and another force of a full stack or so attacked Bern. It went quite well for them for a while, destroying all opposition, taking over Frankfurt, Metz, Cologne, Bern and that Norwegian city with the abnormally long and complicated name.

After a few turns of skirmishes, the Danes had apparently amassed a force that I was amazed with, by that time I had taken over the Genoese and the Venetians (I was the Byzantine Empire) and the Sicilians, so I had a front row seat to those invasions.
The Danes had pushed through Magdeburg on three different courses, a full stack was sent to Cologne, another to Antwerp and the last to Frankfurt, a surprise attack and a successful one too. Another full stack was launched from the fortress next to Bern (To the North of it, forgotten its name as well) and took it by storm, moving on to Lyon from there.
A seaborne invasion was sent from Oslo to land by that Norwegian city and take it back.

The Danes had continued their amazing supply of troops, their heavy infantry ripping through the lower-quality English infantry, decimating them, taking over everything between Metz to Rennes, taking the whole of France by surprise and by storm and leaving England with just the British isles, with that they had signed a peace treaty and my ally, the Danes, had an empire to be proud of.

The Danes then continued to perform sea-skirmishes all over the Northern sea and had invaded Ireland and Scotland, taking them quickly and proceeding down toward London.

London made its final stand with three full stacks, consisting of a random captain, their faction leader and faction heir, the battle was glorious, and the English had fended off the Danish assaults for more than ten years, before agreeing to become their vassals.

This may not sound like something too amazing, but I swear that I thought the AI was controlled by some human player, they used tactical moves that were truly unlike the AI, it was amazing. The English never knew what hit them.

So I had stopped that campaign since it got a little bit boring with my controlling the mid-east (Turkey, Egypt, half of Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Israel and Lybia), Greece, Italy (Aside for Rome), half of Germany, Hungary and Austria and the Danes controlling the British Isles aside for Winchester and London, France, the other half of Germany and Scandinavia.

One of the best campaigns I've had.

wow, +rep for this awesome story;

[=Bright=]

A thing that really surprised me in Vanilla, playing as Egypt, was that I was allied with the pope for 100 turns and he didn't backstab me!

Well...unfortunately we weren't friends anymore after I sacked Rome, Naples and Florence.

[Kelvinator]

Not exactly awesome but I decided to leave the Turks alone after conquering all their settlements but Yeravan because the Mongols arrived and I couldn't be bothered with it as it has a full stack with 3 general bodyguards inside. I decided to just leave my assassin there and keep sabotaging the barracks so they can't produce troops. What I failed to notice was that they were building a secret army of catapults and ballistas as I forgot to sabotage their catapult range. I ended up having to face them in battle against 6 pairs of catapults and some ballistas raining fireballs everywhere.

[DennisRoos]

In my latest SS game, I was playing as the Crusader States. HRE was excommunicated and a crusade was called on Frankfurt. In the next three turns, EVERY Catholic nation except me joins, because I have better things to do than sent an army that won't get there in time anyway. So HRE is at war with 15 nations, Frankfurt is taken in like 6 turns.
Now something weird happens. There are armies from 15 different factions in Germany that all want to take settlements. So they start fighting over it. 20 turns later almost everyone in Europe is at war with everyone else, and the Pope starts getting really pissed. About half of the factions get excommunicated and more crusades are called.
Now I am the only one actually fighting to protect Europe from the Islamic factions and the Mongols, while the Europeans are slaughtering themselves. It wasn't a very smart thing for the AI to do, but I thought this total anarchy was pretty awesome

[Nazgûl Killer]

That anarchy does indeed sound awesome. Would have loved to see that.

[lolIsuck]

in this AAR AI does loads of unexpected things
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=323950

[ian123]

In a campaign as HRE I took over most of Europe except Russia, Spain, Greece and was invading Britain. Then all of a sudden the Turks besiege 3 of my cities with full stacks. So I decided to toggle_fow, and saw that they had taken over the whole of the middle east

[=Bright=]

In a campaign as HRE I took over most of Europe except Russia, Spain, Greece and was invading Britain. Then all of a sudden the Turks besiege 3 of my cities with full stacks. So I decided to toggle_fow, and saw that they had taken over the whole of the middle east

Uh... I had something like that in R:TW. I conquered Greece, big parts of the Balkan and Western Anatolia when Egypt attacked me. When I looked at the map without the fog of war I saw they took over everything in the east, up to the Caspian sea. It was a hell lot of fun to fight them.

[crzyrndm]

Mine is a moment when the BAI got me

Numerically my army was about equal with the AI's, but as usual I deployed superior quality troops. They were defending the foot of a cliff(nothing too huge, but a definate uphill attack for me), with a small clump of forest on the front left flank.
On the left flank of their deployment were two mangonels (playing GUAM btw) just behind the forested section, which raised immediate red flags in my attack plan because of the serious damage they can inflict.

At the start of the attack I send two heavy infantry(this was my seige oriented army so no cav) to neutralise the threat of the mangonels. The rest of my army is tasked with clearing the remaining units from the foot of the cliff.
This is about where things fell to pieces. As the infantry approached the trees infront of the mangonels, they were ambushed by two heavy cav units that had been hidden the entire time. Needless to say, they were wiped out.
The remainder of my army was already engaging with the AI's force, or chasing those cav that had ruined me so spectacularly, so the mangonels continued to fire unmolested.

Because of the morale damage from the explosive barrels, and the losses they were inflicting, my army routed in short order. What looked to have been a decisive victory, turned into a massive rout. The AI was temporarily(very temporarily) victorious

[Gazz]

Mine is a moment when the BAI got me

Numerically my army was about equal with the AI's, but as usual I deployed superior quality troops. They were defending the foot of a cliff(nothing too huge, but a definate uphill attack for me), with a small clump of forest on the front left flank.
On the left flank of their deployment were two mangonels (playing GUAM btw) just behind the forested section, which raised immediate red flags in my attack plan because of the serious damage they can inflict.

At the start of the attack I send two heavy infantry(this was my seige oriented army so no cav) to neutralise the threat of the mangonels. The rest of my army is tasked with clearing the remaining units from the foot of the cliff.
This is about where things fell to pieces. As the infantry approached the trees infront of the mangonels, they were ambushed by two heavy cav units that had been hidden the entire time. Needless to say, they were wiped out.
The remainder of my army was already engaging with the AI's force, or chasing those cav that had ruined me so spectacularly, so the mangonels continued to fire unmolested.

Because of the morale damage from the explosive barrels, and the losses they were inflicting, my army routed in short order. What looked to have been a decisive victory, turned into a massive rout. The AI was temporarily(very temporarily) victorious

Did you revenge those poors souls?

[crzyrndm]

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[crzyrndm]

Did you revenge those poors souls?

The AI was temporarily(very temporarily) victorious

Very rapidly, with two armies IIRC. Not a single man survived the slaghter

[Nazgûl Killer]

Don't you guys just love it when the AI springs some sort of a trap that makes you scream at your computer and your soldiers at the time, but when the battle is over you just think; "Wow... I was just owned by the AI... Oh man this campaign's awesome"

I just find losing to the AI so rare that it becomes awesome when it happens.

[lolIsuck]

I don't like getting attacked by Scotland, England, HRE and Poland while playing as Denmark. English are attacking Stockholm all the time, Scottish Arhus, Poland Riga and HRE Arhus and Hamburg. So they attack all my settlements except Helsinki but I see it coming that Russia (my ally) will attack me there

[Tritus]

Once while I was playing as Spain I sent a diplomat to the Byzantine Empire and found out they had taken Ragusa, Vienna, Zagreb, and working their way into Hungary and still had all their starting areas.

I was so proud.

[Teutonic Warlord]

This was the campaign AI on Medium. I was playing the Teutonic campaign as the Teutonic Order.

Since your finances are pathetic as the Order, I always form an army near Magdeburg and send it by ship to take Visby, Kalmar, Uppsalla, and Abo, giving me loads of money from sacking and building up those settlements.

Once I had some money and crusaders, I started beating up on Lithuania. In the meantime, two sets of alliances were set up. One was me, Poland, the Mongols, and Denmark. The other was Lithuania, Novgorod, and the HRE. I was fighting Lithuania, Poland was fighting HRE, the Mongols were fighting Novgorod, and Denmark was fighting Novgorod and HRE. This war had my alliance members defending except for me because I was beating up Lithuania. My allies were holding off the enemies well. I reduced Lithuania to Palanga and did some work on my economy, armies, and garrisons. I eventually decide to take them out.

Shortly after, all of my allies signed peace treaties with their enemies. Then, my allies started betraying me and forming alliances with their former enemies! Then Novgorod and HRE started attacking me! My allies ended their wars, betrayed me, and then allied with former enemies just because I took out Lithuania!

The result was that I was at war with everyone and allied with no one. My reputation was Reliable or Very Reliable before all this happened. My former allies' reputations dropped at least to dubious after the betrayal. Within 10 turns of Beat up the Teutonic Order War, those former allies' reputations went back up to Mixed! The HRE had a very untrustworthy rep before that, and it actually went up to Dubious while mine dropped to Mixed.

Sadly, I quit and later lost the saves because I unpacked my game. I was going to leave it alone because it upset me that my allies would side with the first traitor and then beat me up and that the pathetically flawed rep system was making backstabbers look like chivalrous folk and me look like Hitler. Maybe I should have waited and tried finishing that game before unpacking everything and losing the saves. At least now I have Stainless Steel.