The neurotic BAI in open field battles.

[cevap]

Recently I downloaded the Yarkis field battle pack that changes all small town sieges into open battles without the victory flag and Ive noticed the BAI isnt horrible only in sieges but in open feld battles as well.

My main problem is it cant keep its units in any sort of line when I get close, more noticable when my men are in pike phallanx and they march slowely to the enemy, the enemies units start running left and right until I close in and all of them are either "attacked from the flanks" or "from behind" because they are facing sideways .
Sure some of my units were in bad formations too because I accidentaly attacked individual units and my attacks crossed paths, annoying as hell but Ive learned my lesson. This happens even as the AI only has 2 types of units to manage, slingers and spearmen. I dont even want to see it manage proper diverse armies with cavalry, sword units, special units and so on.

Second problem is I cant use any form of missile cavalry (and I was very excited about Camel Archers) because it brakes the BAI, they all run after that one unit like it has free candy, never mind the 18 units of infantry/missiles that are coming from the other direction, wtf is that? Even non missile cavalry can cause this if you try to make use of them before the enemy is engaged. Once I even managed to take a huge hill position in the middle of the battlefield the AI could have attacked from because the AI was instead on the other part of the map in a futile attempt to kill my one Camel Archer which I could then use to lure the enemy army in my missile range. The AI had a full stack that could have destroyed me if it wasnt exhausted.

I get CA didnt want a static BAI but a neurotic one is even worse if it cant engage you in battle because its too busy running around, never mind the huge ammounts of micro management you have to do because your units are in guard mode the whole time and the battlefield is a mess. I havent seen a street riot this unorganised.

Im posting this after my last battle this happened on Hard difficulty on almost vanilla (no small sieges and Special Abilites be gone mod), if anyone can confirm the AI is better at VH please do Im done with this campaign because such things suck the fun out for me. In fact if anyone has any idea how to make this not happen, maybe changing my army composition to help the AI or something, any tips are welcome.

[Korburss]

I play VH and at least in my experiences they do keep a line and I've yet to see them charge a single unit. Only time they break a line, is when I "fake" a weak flank and cause them to over extend.

[CaileanMac]

Yeah I have seen a lot of weird things too.

Sometimes the AI seems to form a battle line in front of me, then all of a sudden all the units run around neurotically along the line swapping positions. They pause, then run about again for another 30 seconds. The strange thing is sometimes, like 2-3 battles out of entire campaign, the AI actually preforms well and it's like a different game. It's actually fantastic when it all works properly, it just doesn't happen often.