Player controlled battles???

[Pocus]

Originally posted by Daynarr:
That’s not all! If AI decides to go at war with you he will place his troops before that and strike at ALL your provinces he can reach simultaneously. I was attacked like that two times so far by Panganea and Atlantis (from sea!). I'll tell you, AI is BAD boy.
And even that is not all. I thought I have figured him out so when 1 of his provinces borders 2 of mine and I have army in one of them while other is undefended (only local force), I would move that army to undefended province and intercept his attack. But noooo! Now he attacks BOTH of my provinces with just enough troops to take down one of them if only my local force is defending. I’ve lost lots of provinces nearly by surprise (more like shock) that way.

Basically AI is teaching ME how to play.

sound cool, but ... in dominions I it is relatively easy to toast even Impossible AI, mainly because of two big drawbacks they have.

They are totally unaware that a supply rule exists, so every big army they have starves.
They are totally screwed by battlefields spells, because they dont protect themselves with wards, or if they do, you see them coming one hundred miles away (they are unsurprising).

So Psitticine, Daynarr, are these points a bit alleviated in doms II ? Have you checked if the big enemy armies are not starving? Have you tried to prepare for battlefields spells, how the AI reacted???