[Norfleet]

Originally posted by PrinzMegaherz:
You make it sound as if the AI tried to make you lose by giving your troops bad commands.

It does. Witness "The AI makes your pretender uselessly cast junk spells until it passes out and dies".

That's wrong. The AI is not some kind of entity inside your PC that is out there to beat you.

Yes it is. Otherwise, there wouldn't be much point to playing against it, would you? Who wants to play an opponent that doesn't try to beat you? This is boring.

Your troops will be given those commands that the AI assumes is best suited for your success.

No, the AI gives commands that are best suited for *ITS* success....not yours. If you leave a unit simply on "no orders", the unit will NOT behave like it does when the AI is controlling it.

Originally posted by Stormbinder:
Strategic AI obviosly lack this option, by being, duh, AI.

The strategic AI doesn't NEED this option, because he already has full control of his tactics. The tactical AI *IS* an extension of the strategic AI. It does exactly what he wants it to do. The same cannot be said for you, as the tactical AI never does what you want it to do beyond the level you can force it to do so.

Originally posted by Boron:
don't want to quote again stormbinder this would because i think that would be fair if the ai has a slightly better battlefield ai then the player battlefield ai so that there are 2 slightly different battlefield ais .

so i thought perhaps norfleet has discovered this . in the starting of the post too the guess was made the computer ai may perhaps still use dominion 1 battle orders .

The AI definitely does different things that you cannot possibly do, as evidence from the original poster shows, and is far more reactive. This is because the AI is able to "script orders", as it were, on the fly, right before the battle starts, rather than having to guess. Notice how you will never, ever, catch the AI having been scripted to fight someone else, and his mages never charge you with a spoon for no comprehensible reason. Note also how, if left up to the AI, your pretender will be allowed to cast spells until it faints from exhaustion....but the AI's pretender won't do this: You can easily witness the AI's pretender casting its spells, and then ATTACKING YOU.