AI -food attrition

**Emperor Arcturus Mengsk** · November 07, 2015, 02:12 AM

Hello,

a quick question, I'm playing a campaign as Pergamon at the moment, and I'm at war with Bithynia, I'm trying to starve them out of their walled city by raiding their territory and my spy shows that their settlement ( the only one )

is at -3 food yet they don't get attrition, is this removed from DEI or it has to go even lower?

**FlashHeart07** · November 07, 2015, 02:14 AM

If the city has acces to the Sea you need to Block them off with a navy aswell. Attrition havent been removed from DeI

**Emperor Arcturus Mengsk** · November 07, 2015, 02:20 AM

I'm not besieging the settlement I'm just raiding outside to steal their food so it goes to - does a port has something to do with that as well?

I know about besieging a port settlement

**FlashHeart07** · November 07, 2015, 02:30 AM

Ah. My bad

The AI recieve a bonus to food to keep them from starving. Without this bonus they would starve all the time.

**Ygraine** · November 07, 2015, 02:32 AM

In the latest version AI gets around +44 food iirc, you'll need quite a few raiding parties to get them to starve

**Emperor Arcturus Mengsk** · November 07, 2015, 02:58 AM

Aha, ok, thanks guys, and congratulations on all of the DEI team for this great mod by the way

It's the only reason I took a break from Attila and returned to Rome 2 again!

**Dresden** · November 07, 2015, 02:57 PM

That bonus is deceptive because of the new food mechanics in the supply system and other food things. But its there to give the AI a chance so they don't starve with larger empires.

Raiding with one army would be very unlikely to starve anyone anyway, because food is global.