battle replay funny occurance

[innocex]

I had a weird thing happen this weekend, I had an epic win after being outnumbered 3 to 1 in a battle so I saved the replay... I watched it again, and instead of being a heroic victory as it was in real time, it was a close defeat in the replay section... Has anyone seen anything like that?

[Antonidas]

yea, i believe replays in total war aren't actually exact copies of the battle, they reenact the conditions and actions very closely. It must have been pretty close to alter the outcome of the battle.

[Frost, colonel]

The replay feature is broken(good job this is the only thing in the game that is broken, or I'd be pissed), very few of my replays are the same as the battle I actually fought. The replays like to copy the usual AI moves.
For example, I had my 2 stack Roman army(patch 4) attack a walled city. My 8 ballista knocked 2 holes in the wall, and destroyed the gate and towers, while this was going on all my missile troops lined up firing as well(it looked epic) I then assaulted through all 3 breaches simultaneously.

When I play the replay, they fire at the gate, and rush it, it's a shambles, it is totally different from what I did, in fact I think CA may well have planned it as a bad joke, perhaps they think it's funny?

[innocex]

It is very strange, so it is not a recording like the older TW games... I find it odd that it is sort of approximation, like using the imagination of an AI computer...

[mavortium]

No it's not a trick or anything, this had happened in S2 for a while as well. The replay doesn't mirror the battle events sometimes.

[♠ Thomas Cochrane ♠]

funny occurrence? Yeah. hilarious. Wooo broken feature....