[st.patrik]

Originally posted by licker:
IT doesn't bother me that much either, but there are two places where it is an issue.

#1 the AI... The AI doesn't understand the worthlessness of LI apparently, so it is disadvantaged against humans, disadvantaged in a fixable way though.

#2 Astetics... Well why have 10+ units per nation if 5 of them are used less than 1% of the time? Call it balance, call it what you will, the fact is that LI are not cheap enough to use over other units. The problem is two fold, supply and upkeep, there is simply no advantage to ever having LI (strategic movement, but if they suck so much the extra speed isn't worth that much since they just die anyway).

It doesn't bother me greatly for MP, but for SP I'd like to see the AI less handicapped.

I completely agree that those considerations are good.

1. The AI thing should be fixed so that the AI recruits the highest resource troops it can, while exhausting its gold supply for the turn. [maybe this isn't clear - what I mean is that if you on a certain turn have (after buying a commander) 200 gold and 200 resources, the AI should buy troops with that ratio of gold to resources, etc. - try to exhaust both gold and resources]

2. While I'm ok with LI being used less, I agree with you that they shouldn't be in there if they're not going to be used at all, ever, as you say, for aesthetic reasons. So for example for Man I can't imagine ever wanting to buy slingers when I can buy longbows. Similarly for most all militia I think.