How to convince the Rohan AI focusing on cavalry?

[Shingen]

I'm very disappointed that the AI recuits mainly infantry as Rohan.

In my next game I want to see Rohirrim mostly on horseback.

Does anyone knows a submods that changes the game in that way?

If not. What has to be changed for such a modification?

[Ngugi]

If the Ai had less infantry they would get destroyed fast. Cavalry is no good in auto-battle (due to numbers and stats made for normalt battles), meaning they would lose more fights vs other AI-factions than they currently tend to do.

[Shingen]

If the Ai had less infantry they would get destroyed fast. Cavalry is no good in auto-battle (due to numbers and stats made for normalt battles), meaning they would lose more fights vs other AI-factions than they currently tend to do.

What do you think about this?

Rohan infantry can't be recuited, it can't move on the campaign map and needs only low upkeep.
But the garnision script is raised dramatically for all Rohan settlements. So Rohan wouldn't got a remarkable chance to capture settlements but the chance to loose settlements would be low.

[Ngugi]

Sounds a bit harsh hehe, rohirrim do use infantry after all and not only cavalry
For gameplay though its seems as it would require a lot of work to make anything such work (beside it would be very odd with a faction whoms infantry suddenly cant walk while all others can), time that could be put on real impriovements while this would just be an odd tweak. IMHO.

[Mhaedros]

Also it's be a pain in the ass to occupy settlements.

[Ngugi]

Yup, you would be restricted to siege them till they starve to death or sally forth.

[Ultra123]

perhaps when the player plays as isengard a script could be triggered to spawn a rohan horse-stack every 10 turns or so? this might spice it up and you get that 'epicx' fight evrery 10 turns or so... though i see this being a pain in the arse for new players.

[Mhaedros]

It's still not help Rohan to take settlements. It's only be a pain in the ass (wow, second time I use that saying in one thread)

[Shingen]

It's still not help Rohan to take settlements. It's only be a pain in the ass (wow, second time I use that saying in one thread)

Why should I want Rohan to take settlements? They should just survive until my armies arrive chop these stinking horsemen into pieces.

[Ultra123]

i meant my suggestion WITHOUT the 'infrantry cant move' suggestion above, IE vanilla with these scripts

[Mhaedros]

Ah, in that case, go do!

[k/t]

Increase the priority for cavalry recruitment in the EDU, and give all Rohan cavalry 3 secondary HPs.

[Shingen]

Increase the priority for cavalry recruitment in the EDU, and give all Rohan cavalry 3 secondary HPs.

What are "3 secondary HPs"?

[Shingen]

Increase the priority for cavalry recruitment in the EDU, and give all Rohan cavalry 3 secondary HPs.

What about the balancing? Wouldn't that make Rohan too strong?

[Point Blank]

What about the balancing? Wouldn't that make Rohan too strong?

Recommend the following for secondary hp's (cumulative):

Foot Unit 1
Mounted Unit 2

Missile Unit +1
Skirmisher Unit +1
Human, Peasant or low-quality Militia-1
Heavy Cavalry +1
All non-human evil -1
Elven +1

MAXIMUM IS 3
MINIMUM IS 0

[k/t]

The number in the EDU after the primary HPs. It will give the unit more weight in auto-resolve.

[Mikail Mengsk]

The number in the EDU after the primary HPs. It will give the unit more weight in auto-resolve.

well, this is awesome, didn't know about it.

[-Cygnus-]

I love recruit cavalry only when im playing as Rohan, when the AI its playing i just dont care what it happends to it..so dont be such a fag

[Trailhog250]

k/t is right

This is what it would look like with the bolded line needing to be changed:

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type Axemen of Lossarnach
dictionary Axemen_of_Lossarnach ; Axemen of Lossarnach
category infantry
class heavy
voice_type Heavy
banner faction main_infantry
banner holy crusade
soldier Varangian_Guard, 60, 0, 1
officer gondor_captain_early_flag
officer gondor_captain_early_flag
mount_effect horse +1, camel +1, elephant -4
attributes sea_faring, hide_forest, hardy, can_withdraw, free_upkeep_unit
formation 1.2, 1.2, 2.4, 2.4, 4, square
stat_health 1, 3
stat_pri 8, 6, no, 0, 0, melee, melee_blade, slashing, axe, 50, 1
stat_pri_attr ap
stat_sec 0, 0, no, 0, 0, no, melee_simple, blunt, none, 0, 1
stat_sec_attr no
stat_pri_armour 6, 4, 0, metal
stat_sec_armour 0, 0, flesh
stat_heat 2
stat_ground 0, -1, 0, -2
stat_mental 13, normal, trained
stat_charge_dist 15
stat_fire_delay 0
stat_food 60, 300
stat_cost 1, 470, 200, 75, 75, 470, 3, 150
armour_ug_levels 1, 2
armour_ug_models lossarnach, lossarnach_ug1
ownership sicily
era 0 sicily
era 1 sicily
era 2 sicily
recruit_priority_offset 5 <--- make this value higher than the infantry, e.g.: Eorl Swordsmen is 8, make Rohan Cavalry something higher. (10 for example) But bear in mind that the unit pool must be ready for use again, so you could make their infantry take longer to be recruited and make their cavalry replenish faster

[Point Blank]

Valid secondary hp values are 0-3.