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Old November 15th, 2004, 09:55 PM

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The AI will attack you quite reliably if you have a lot of provinces and a small army. In fact, nearly all AIs will pile on once your army size begins to shrink. Once the ball starts rolling like that against you, it is very hard to recover. If you are on the top of the province graph and near the bottom of the army size graph, you will find yourself in a LOT of wars.

One way to avoid this is to put in 11 PD everywhere. The AI always knows your PD level in every province and will add that to your army size. Since there is no possibility of recruiting armies as fast as the AI does on the impossible level (and to a lesser extent, the hard level), use of PD can give you time to build up SCs, summons, artifacts, build forts, and do all the stuff that happens every game in MP but never in SP by the AI.

Once you get 11 PD everywhere, they will lose a few hawks or wolves to your PD and then quit attacking you. After some indeterminate number of turns with no attacks, they will be at peace with you but never annouce the fact.
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Old November 15th, 2004, 11:01 PM
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The Panther is correct...

Even after an AI declares war it's possible for that AI to slip back into a peace status with you. Unfortunately there is no way to tell how peaceful or aggressive an AI opponent setting is towards you.

on a side note:
The biggest problem the AI has right now is starving units. The AI isn't aware of supplies within provinces... so it'll stack 200 light infantry in a province with 40 supplies. This results in starving and dieseased units which cause low morale and early death for new or veteran units. Hopefully Dominions_3 will have a disable starving option for AI.
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The biggest problem the AI has right now is starving units. The AI isn't aware of supplies within provinces... so it'll stack 200 light infantry in a province with 40 supplies. This results in starving and dieseased units which cause low morale and early death for new or veteran units. Hopefully Dominions_3 will have a disable starving option for AI.
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There's an easy fix for the problem:

#modname "Fix Starving AI Army Issue"
#description "Supplies x5"
#Version 0.1
#domVersion 2.06
-- icon
#supplymult 500

Works even on the problematic Aran,Cradle and Parganos Maps.
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