No town battles?

[skillfultree]

^{​Every time I attack a town without walls the enemy army always sally forth. Did DeI remove town battles?}

[Ygraine]

The chance of them sallying out is pretty high right now. I prefer more town-battles over constant field battles - but some people disagree...

[ra2z]

Its random, but the more you out number them the higher chance they will defend, quite frusting when they sally forth but im the attacker.... Wasent it the complete oppioste in previous total wars? Either way village battles are bugged as hell right now, just send in one archer unit and their entire force will banzai charge your front line, well the same thing happens in normal battles aswell but at least their not in one giant ball.

[skillfultree]

I have put 160 hours into Dei and have never had a town battle once. Sieges sure, but NEVER a town battle.

[Augustusng]

I think there's a 70 or 80% chance in DeI that AI defenders sally out in a town battle.

[FlashHeart07]

Hmm. This sounds odd. Though its been awhile (couple of weeks) since I last played a real DeI campaign I have always had a nice split between town battles and sieges where the enemy sallies out and I have played +700 hours of DeI.

[skillfultree]

Note that this isn't walled cities, just towns.

[FlashHeart07]

Its noted. And I still stand by what I wrote.

[Muha]

Honestly it kind of makes sense if you think about it. If the defending army has no walls to defend itself with. They would most likely try to avoid civilian casualties by taking the fight away from the town. Plus you cant really maneuver in a town. But role-playing aside, maybe from all the improvements DEI made, something somewhere broke in the scripts and the AI no longer realizes that they need to defend the capture point?

[FlashHeart07]

Could be. But I dont believe that we did anything to the capture points other than removing them. Everything else is hard coded since the AI still thinks the capture point is present but it just cant lose by the player capturing it and vice versa.

[Dresden]

We have a higher chance for sallying forth for a couple reasons:
1. The AI pathfinding in small towns is bad.
2. The larger unit sizes in DeI makes it worse.

Having said that, we are lowering the chance a small bit in 1.1.

[Purplzhazy]

Town battles are awful, too bad you lower the chance in the next version, I hope that I will be able to set it to 90% at least !

[Dresden]

Its a single campaign variable, very easy to change.