As usual before making this change the question is what does the community want, there are currently no buffs.
Would you like to see an AI led captain stack receive a buff when you attack them with a family member?
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As usual before making this change the question is what does the community want, there are currently no buffs.
Would you like to see an AI led captain stack receive a buff when you attack them with a family member?
Last edited by z3n; January 13, 2016 at 05:55 PM.
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Maybe a very, very, very minor one. Like +1 morale. I feel the gap between butchering captain-led armies like kittens and having basically every battle be your worst nightmare whether you like it or not is too narrow to give them more buffs.
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I agree they do need a buff but perhaps no more than +1, at the current pace they do rout easily. Another thing to consider however by 100-200 turns in game, there would be multiple captain led stacks. It might be a concern to raise morale as it would definitely make it harder to defeat large empires (not saying that currently its an easy task to do).
i´m pro buff
play usually on vh/vh and as rome i could rout+defeat the northern italian rebel stacks with a 1:7 kill ratio easily.
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If this could be made an optional part of EB II I agree to buff them.
There are many people playing VH battle difficulty and still achieving heroic victories (see Tartaros' post above).
Others - like me - struggle with the (fantastic) battle AI at medium already.
Also - it's a huge difference if you attack a celtic AI stack with Rome - or a ptolemaic/seleukid AI stack as Saba....
So:
if players can decide to install that or not - very much in favour of it.
If it's a fixed part of the AI - against it because I prefer not every battle being a complete slaughter of my forces due to my limited battle tactics skills.
Hey Zen, been meaning to get back to you on the AI stuff for a while but been really busy, sorry about that!
The AI captain led stacks absolutely need a buff, I'm currently fighting off the Seleucids on VH/VH who are throwing nothing but 3/4 and full captain stacks at me, they invariably break within 5 minutes of fighting. The tactics employed are much, much better than they once were, there's a lot of flanking going on - I've even had enemy cavalry charge my line from behind - a first in Total War for me. The issue is that these tactics demand morale enough to carry through, many units will be some distance away from their leader resulting in a quick morale drop.
You're doing great work and battles are just getting better and better. Looking forward to seeing what you'll come up with next!
EDIT: Might be good if someone created a thread dedicated solely to battle AI, would be easier to read through and collect data in one place no?
Awww screw it, let have more fun. +1 morale buff, and make it mandatory, so we cant chicken out of it lol
I thought that very hard battles give moral and stamina boost to the AI units, either way I am OK with those boosts only.
Im ok with the buff as long as they will still be worse than a FM led stack.
We will either find a way, or make one.
I think it should be a small buff, as well, a +1 morale boost perhaps. I definitely think most FMs(assuming they don't have negative traits) should still give a better morale boost than a captain, however.
My vote would be to make the buff optional, either on installation or via "official mod".
Forgot to finish :/
In that way, you come a lot closer to pleasing both sides.
Noone should be playing M2TW battles below VH, either way. Whatever the mod (BC, SS, TA or EB...). I get people might be shy to upgrade to VH, especially if it's above recommended, but also I'm pretty sure there's nobody who'd downgrade back to medium or another lol-AI-run-away-on-touch difficulty level after having seen VH and how easy it (still) is... So give it a try.
What about morale update "reforms" for AI as the game progresses just like the armor upgrade reforms.
So AI troops get +1 morale at turn 60, +2 morale (total) at turn 120, +3 morale (total) at turn 240, etc, or
tie it to the (max) number of settlements AI has.
I thought the point of an AI FM was the morale boost.